Artwork by Andrew Jones
“A Spirited Conversation.” Based upon The Spirit Phone.
Previously published in Suspense Magazine, Summer 2020 and The Stray Branch, Fall / Winter 2021.
The spirit phone has arrived by special delivery: a revolutionary device for communication with those who reside beyond the veil. Sold exclusively by the Edison Manufacturing Company. Patent pending.
[Listen to the full story here. Narration by Daniel Penz.]
“Morning in Shinoyama Park.”
Flash Fiction Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020.
Falling down drunk in the street. It’s a cliché, isn’t it? But that’s what S. did two nights ago, out near the station’s west exit, soon after our departure from Yokohama’s oldest and finest English pub, one of the only two places nearby where I can get a pint of Kilkenny on tap.
“Under the Stairs.”
Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast, 30 May 2019.
I can’t help it. The thing in the park keeps calling me, and I have to look under the stairs. I know, it’s irrational. But don’t we all have little quirks we share with no one? I’m sharing this one with you, whoever you are. So don’t judge.
[Listen to the full story here.]
“The Entropy Room.”
Ragazine, 1 May 2018.
It occurred to Yugo, as he sat in his kitchen drinking coffee, that it had been almost three years to the day since he’d been pushed off the train platform. With a skill born of habit and necessity, he banished the thought from his mind as if it had never existed.