These Darkened Streets

The eleven stories in These Darkened Streets play on the foggy boundary between horror and magical realism . You'll find shivers here, dear reader, and other, more thought-provoking flights of imagination all set in small towns with dark, quiet streets...

This collection

"A Game of Lost Boys" - a childhood friend is more than he appears

"The Thing about a Haunting" - an exploration of the nature of ghosts

"When Megan Could Fly" - a high flying high school crush lands hard

"Soul Marbles" - Zane's dad said the marbles carried dead men's souls

"Billy Boy" - Billy told the best monster stories

"Different Strings" - two siblings explore a secret world

"The Scavengers Lying in Wait" - more than catfish sleep in Potter's Pond

"What Julie’s Dad Doesn’t Know" - the .38 isn't loaded, yet...

"The Logic of Monsters" - a walk home slips into a flight of fantasy

"Empty" - something waits in the old house down the street...

"The World in Rubber, Soft and Malleable" - the townsfolk vanish, one by one, through magic doors in their basements

These stories, all wandering through fictional small towns, are some of the author's favorites.