When the well of poetry runs dry, and you think this is it, with the last hit of the imaginary pickaxe a new spring of poetry starts to trickle. This is the trickle from my all but dry well of poetry. Heartfelt, a collection of Haikus, Senryus and Trivenis.
[Formerly Featured/Novella/#2 in Horror] C'è qualcosa di misterioso in questo villaggio -- questa tana di silenzio, con persone esasperate. Nel 1922 mio padre mi ha raccontato di un'entità senza volto che si nasconde tra di noi in questa piccola e isolata parte della Russia. Gli abitanti del luogo hanno provato questo...
Zombies and werewolves and witches, oh my! Dorothy is a normal teenage girl. She goes to school, hangs out and resists the advances of the boys in her year. And she lives with her aunt after the death of her parents. A trip to a mall is brought to an abrupt halt when a freak storm hits. Dorothy is transported to anot...
A mysterious genetic anomaly has befallen mankind. Infants across the globe are born with a third genetic marker causing a voracious appetite for human flesh. World-renowned geneticist, Dr. Alexa Mason, races to unlock the genetic code. She must reverse the mutation before society is thrust into a horrific, unyielding...
Do you know Jack? The Ripper? Saucy Jack? Leather Apron? The most infamous serial killer in history has long been fodder for the imagination of authors and artists alike, but his true identity remains an enigma to this day. Take a fresh look at the notorious Murderer of Whitechapel through the eyes and quills of Wattp...
What good is a witch without her magic? Puddlebrain, Gemini and Edna are witches. Unfortunately, after an incident with the mayor and a family of silverfish, they've all lost their magic. When a sinister shadow begins to abduct the villagers and then her sisters, Puddlebrain, with only the obnoxious gnome Billy for h...
Science Fiction // Novella --- This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, or a nuclear war, or a plague, or even Yellowstone erupting. No, it ends with the Earth's inner sun burping massive amounts of radiation into our atmosphere. So where does that leave the few of us who are still alive? --- 3rd pla...
The toss of a coin can change your life. Vehicles can crash into buildings. Cities can crumble. A man can die. And be reborn. When your memory is lost and Death is your shadow, you turn to the only person who has offered their hand - a strange, evasive woman with pale skin and sad eyes. But who is she...
Princess Aren is determined to make the human who killed her mother and exiled her people to the bottom of the ocean pay. To do so, she must go to extremes of pain and heartache in her search for justice. Aren, however, is no sweet, happy mermaid. To kill is to ignite a fire of passion in her heart which only the...
- WINNER in the @BeautyAndTheBeastUK Writing Challenge Contest!!! - Beauty is not purely skin deep. Children don't necessarily understand this, however. My daughter was suffering from bullying at her new school. I wrote this to show beauty isn't just on the outside. You only need to look. As such, I think it's a fitti...
A Watty Award Winner, Trailblazer Category 2016 In 1896, dinosaurs started the infection that ended the world. Carmen has lived her entire life in New York City, a city of opium and invention, of rotting tenements and marble mansions; a divided metropolis built on the backs of the dinosaurs that never died out, kept s...
Jack had lived a life so full of sin even the Devil had questions ***Frightfest 2016 silver winner*** ***Second place for best Horror in Wicked Awards*** Undergoing edits. Jack Price hasn't lived a very moral life. He cheats on his wife. He beats his kids and ignores those in need; although he believes himself to be...
How does your night go from a game of Hide and Seek with your best friend, to your parents being murdered the same night? On top of that, you're sent to live with your mother and father's best friend, Mrs. and Mr. Harmon. Although Emily and her brother have no idea who these people are, they're given the luxury life a...
Traveling to New Mexico to visit Shane's grandparents seemed like a good idea. Until we got there. It wasn't the trip I was expecting. I was just hoping to make it out alive...and in one piece. **** David and Shane are in for one hell of a dinner party. *This is a short story in three acts. Now complete!*
| Previously Featured | | Book One of the Moon Chronicles | "To hear, one must be silent." The Power of the tongue and intelligence of a human being is what makes them different from God's other creations. It is what makes them powerful, it is what makes the human being rule every other creation. But they forge...
A hot young photographer shoots a conspiracy murder, has cops and the killer chasing after those pictures, hooks up with a fugitive punk girl to cover his back.
*Wattys2016 Winner* *An edited and expanded version of this is now a published book on Amazon (under kindle direct so you might be able to read it free) under the name Spider's Kiss* https://www.amazon.com/Spiders-Kiss-Book-Drambish-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B07ZQT245J/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=spider%27s+kiss+book&qid=1576257844...
(Featured Story in Spanish) Ardith Cuthberht is the daughter of the powerful duke of Harzburg. When she was a girl she lost her beloved mother and as a grown lady the man she loved was sent to battle in far away regions. One day Ardith found a severe beaten woman in the woodlands near her castle and this is when Ardi...
Horror // Novel // Completed ~ How far would you go to be free? What are you willing to become? ~ A decade of torture at the hands of the cannibal Lucius has left Amy traumatised. Yet, she remains resilient and is determined to find a way out of his grasp. She will reclaim her freedom one way or another--even if that...
{Completed} A queer, slow-burn steamy gothic horror novel about rediscovering yourself after trauma--with kinky, blood-drinking immortals and polyamory. ~ He gripped her red locks firmly and pulled her head aside, baring her neck. His teeth grazed the sensitive skin, causing goosebumps to rise. "I may own your body...
SHORT/PSYCHOLOGICAL: A dark glimpse at a dystopian future that introduces a talented musical composer who's in search of the perfect note from the perfect vocalist in an attempt to arrange a song that will fully restore all human emotion. ------ Singers are taught to convey emotion in their songs, but this composer wa...
Bound by a curse fated to love. Cassandra lives her life a day at a time. She has learned to expect the unexpected and that the world she is stuck in as an immortal being is vile, disgusting, and full of hate. While residing in Brooklyn, New York she comes across a trio of boys that ultimately leads to her looking bac...
The Cartwright clan has worked the farm for almost a century. On the surface, they are prosperous pillars of the community. But once a generation, a wicked harvest must be reaped, to ensure that the family never falls. The appointed time for Joshua Cartwright's offspring approaches. He has to remind himself that we al...
(Under Revision) She always bends. When her reality changes for the worse, so does she. Because it's only when the slope steepens does she find her footing. It's when the light dims and fades. In the stifling November air of the city, her head lifts to the night sky. Specks of snow flicker yellow as they hang in t...
This is no book for the weak. Let's play a game of hide and seek. From MONSTERS hunting in it's pages. Finish the book to survive. SO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS, LAY IN YOUR BED AND READ... IF YOU DARE... Compilation of short horror stories and tales for dark nights. If you want to see these, more and narrated by me pleas...
In a realm where magic is outlawed, a young woman named Amelie is becoming a Hunter - a slayer of mages and dangerous creatures. Her instructor and friend Harkonnen has finally deemed her worthy of the Initiation, a mysterious ritual for the would-be Hunter. Elsewhere, Eran, a scholar's son, discovers that his fathe...
Following the death of her mother, Orlaith Greene becomes a playing piece in the war that rages across the Empire Isle every ten years. Doomed romances and family secrets make up Orlaith's future, alongside honing the art of her witchcraft in an Empire where witches are only good for burning.
A strange and terrible power once performed dark puppetry with the dead to wage war against the living. One hundred winters ago that power was staunched. But it has returned. After a ruinous attack against her kingdom, Princess Elery takes up her father's sword to pursue the path of vengeance. A path that brings her t...
