My suspense/thriller novella Clans was published online at Readict.
Clans is out of print and no longer available. Email me at m.sherer@yahoo.com for a free PDF copy.
A young female elementary teacher is in a tavern celebrating the end of the school year with three other teachers when she notices a man she has never seen before watching her. When she goes home that night she is attacked and nearly murdered on her doorstep. Her attacker delivers a cryptic message just before killing her. Which is just before he is killed by the strange man who had been watching her in the bar. Who then flees after saving her life. The police detective investigating the case tells her the name of the dead man who attacked her and where he was from. That knowledge, plus the words the man uttered just before dying, sends her from her home in Cincinnati, Ohio, off to the mountains of Appalachia to learn how she is involved in such lethal events. Once there, she becomes embroiled in a brutal fight not only for her life, but for the very soul of the violent world she has been drawn into.
My horror novella Midnight Feedings was published in Bards and Sages ‘The Society of Misfit Stories Vol. 3’.
A young soldier back from Afghanistan is stuck and unable to continue a normal civilian life, until he meets an attractive flesh-eating ghoul. But the other ghouls of her tribe don’t approve of their relationship. This pits an ancient gothic horror against a modern one – a well-trained battle-tested American veteran soldier.
My horror black comedy novella ‘Dummy’s Dummies‘ has been serialized in 4 parts by Terror House Magazine and is available for a free read.
https://terrorhousemag.com/tag/dummys-dummies/
Vincent is a ventriloquist honing his talent in small venues. His trio of dummies are based on real people in his life. The pressure mounts when his agent informs him a rep from Comedy Central will be coming to see his show. As the pressure mounts, Vincent comes to believe everybody he knows is trying to turn him into a dummy. But who could be the ventriloquist controlling Vincent? He comes to realize it is his ten-year old son Colin. There are people Colin wants his father to murder. Such as the people represented by the dummies – Vincent’s mother, best friend, and ex-wife. But once they are dealt with, Colin reveals this is just the beginning of what could be the weirdest serial killings ever involving father and son. This psychological dark comedy blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy in an extremely dark and humorous way.
The Society of Misfit Stories Vol. 1, which includes my science fiction novella No Way At All, has been released in digital format by Bards and Sages Publishing. The print version is now available in both hardback and softback.
Ray Stark discovers a DVD on the shelves of a store about a man who travels into the near future to prevent a disaster from happening, only he has left his memory in the past and has no idea of what he needs to do. He notices the movie is based on a book written by him. Only he can’t remember writing such a book. But he is working on his first novel in his part-time, about an FBI agent who has such on-the-nose hunches about events yet to take place it’s almost like he is receiving messages from the future – a form of time travel. As Ray watches the movie and works on his book the characters begin to look like real people in his life, which is falling apart as he crumbles from pressures in his marriage and his job. The movie, the book being written, and Ray’s real life become so interwoven it becomes difficult to tell reality from fiction.
From the North Rim 