Writing

Horror

Dad's Famous Preserves (As Podcast)

NoSleep Podcast, 4.29.2018 https://www.thenosle ... /s10/10x23

A missionary family relocates to a jungle outpost where they find themselves woefully unprepared for an unfamiliar world of native rituals and many-legged horrors. Alone in the deepest jungle, their God-fearing patriarch contracts a tropical disease that consumes his leg and changes his personality.

Alison (As Podcast)

Pseudopod Podcast, 7.16.2017 http://pseudopod.org ... 51-alison/

When a bad date verges on becoming a REALLY bad date, an explosive car crash nudges Alison over the schizophrenic brink she's been straddling throughout her childhood.

Bog Dog (As Podcast)

Nightmare Podcast, 11.6.2014 http://www.nightmare ... n/bog-dog/

An Irish family unearths the mummified remains of a dog from a peat bog whose owners have perished under gruesome circumstances. When a blizzard descends on the family, they find themselves forced to burn their belongings in order to stay alive - including the cursed Bog Dog.

Boomworld (As Podcast)

Horror Hill Podcast, 7.14.2021 https://www.simplysc ... rror-hill/

A caregiver leads her charges through a post-nuclear bazaar in search of a Christmas tree, hoping to find a glimpse of her Old World before she rots away.

Fishboy (As Podcast)

The Simply Scary Podcast, 7.13.2021 https://www.simplysc ... rror-hill/

As a tornado rips through the world outside her storm cellar, a mother quiets frightened children with the story of their father's haunting return from war, the invisible horror of what he brought back, and what became of the deformed brother they never knew.

Full (As Podcast)

Tales to Terrify Podcast, 1.17.2020 https://talestoterri ... as-nikita/

A housewife with an eating disorder finds that her stash of dubious mail-order diet pills may be the key to surviving an ill-fated family cruise through the Bermuda Triangle.

Sight Unseen (As Podcast)

Skin Crawl Podcast by BloodyFM, via Bloody Disgusting, 12.26.2023 https://open.spotify ... 0g_8CE28sg

Audioplay adaptation of 'Sight Unseen' from comic series Skin Crawl (Issue#01) by Oakland artist Skinner. Note: Rollie the Rotten intro and outro for this episode written by Skinner. 'Sight Unseen' audioplay by Seras Nikita.

Welcome Back (As Podcast)

Skin Crawl Podcast by BloodyFM, via Bloody Disgusting, 10.17.2023 https://spotify.link ... gIgRhYJYDb

Audioplay adaptation of 'Welcome Back' from comic series Skin Crawl (Issue#02) by Oakland artist Skinner. Note: Rollie the Rotten intro and outro for this episode written by Skinner. 'Welcome Back' audioplay by Seras Nikita.

Science Fiction

Abbott (Short Story)

Unpublished

A ubiquitous serum eliminates the visible process of aging, but does not extend the lifespan of its users.

Saints of the Exodus (Novel)

In Edit

A first-person space opera. Written as Part 1 of 3.

Screenplay

The Parade (Short Screenplay)

Unpublished

Villagers await the arrival of a Parade celebrating a local resistance hero, but when the envoy appears the men of the village are forced to make a brutal choice.

Performance Reports (Short Screenplay)

Unpublished

On the eve of their annual performance reports, three women pay visits to their fat-cat boss, and attempt to solicit his favor in very different ways.

Down the Drain (Short Screenplay)

Unpublished

A sex worker inadvertently murders her John & must then find a way to retrieve incriminating evidence from an impossibly tiny drainpipe.

STEMpathy (Short Screenplay)

Unpublished

Following a spat over which sibling's schoolwork is most deserving of prized refrigerator space, a boy's science experiment goes awry in a way that makes him question his certainty that minds like his are the only minds that matter.

Children's

Nia's Magic

Written and illustrated. A little girl named Nia makes the world (and illustrations) more colorful using her own special Magic; enticing others to use their imaginations. Nia guides her friends and family to invent stories that explain personal weaknesses as personal strengths. Written as gift for friend's daughter.

Horror (Reprint)

Alison (As Podcast II)

Horror Hill Podcast, 11.6.2021 https://youtu.be/WBbIxrrfQYE

When a bad date verges on becoming a REALLY bad date, an explosive car crash nudges Alison over the schizophrenic brink she's been straddling throughout her childhood.

Dad’s Famous Preserves (As Podcast II)

Horror Hill Podcast, 2.17.2021 https://www.simplysc ... rror-hill/

Dad's Famous Preserves (As Print II)

Year's Best Hardcore Horror Vol. 4, 2019

A missionary family relocates to a jungle outpost where they find themselves woefully unprepared for an unfamiliar world of native rituals and many-legged horrors. Alone in the deepest jungle, their God-fearing patriarch contracts a tropical disease that consumes his leg and changes his personality.

Full (As Print)

Dark Moon Digest Issue #32/33, 10.28.18 http://perpetualpubl ... ssue-32-33

A housewife with an eating disorder finds that her stash of dubious mail-order diet pills may be the key to surviving an ill-fated family cruise through the Bermuda Triangle.

Fishboy (As E-Zine)

Body Parts Magazine, 5.3.2017 http://www.bodyparts ... iketa.html

As a tornado rips through the world outside her storm cellar, a mother quiets frightened children with the story of their father's haunting return from war, the invisible horror of what he brought back, and what became of the deformed brother they never knew.

Dad's Famous Preserves (As Print)

Hinnom Magazine, 12.31.2017 https://www.amazon.c ... 997280379/

A missionary family relocates to a jungle outpost where they find themselves woefully unprepared for an unfamiliar world of native rituals and many-legged horrors. Alone in the deepest jungle, their God-fearing patriarch contracts a tropical disease that consumes his leg and changes his personality.

Bog Dog (As Print)

Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Posession Anthology, 8.15.2017 https://www.amazon.c ... 1927673232

An Irish family unearths the mummified remains of a dog from a peat bog whose owners have perished under gruesome circumstances. When a blizzard descends on the family, they find themselves forced to burn their belongings in order to stay alive - including the cursed Bog Dog.

Bog Dog (As E-Zine)

Nightmare Magazine, 11.6.2014 http://www.nightmare ... n/bog-dog/

An Irish family unearths the mummified remains of a dog from a peat bog whose owners have perished under gruesome circumstances. When a blizzard descends on the family, they find themselves forced to burn their belongings in order to stay alive - including the cursed Bog Dog.

Horror (Unpublished)

Los Conejillos Indias

Unpublished

A pair of tourists are forced into trafficking a mysterious drug. Following an accident en route to the airport, the pair makes the decision to sample the drug, lest injuries threaten their ability catch a very important flight.

The Three Surviving Victims of the Milk Street Abduction

Unpublished

Survivors of a brutal mass kidnapping grow to abhor one another, the presence of each forcing the others to relive the tortuous experience again and again.

Mama Can't See

Unpublished

Mama becomes convinced the fire which killed her father and took her sight was started by a genetic form of spontaneous human combustion, and fixates on the only object to survive the inferno unscathed: the kitchen table, that 'Grampa lives underneath'.

Pele Won the Lottery

Unpublished

After winning $3,000 on a scratcher, an undocumented immigrant entrusts the ticket to a citizen co-worker in order to legally obtain his prize. When the co-worker absconds with the cash and reports Pele to the INS, a peculiar form of folk magic accompanies the ill-begotton windfall.

Don't Take Treasure From the Bowerbird

Unpublished

Weeks in a sweltering hide, a film crew prepares to capture the mating dance of the elusive Bowerbird. When the moment arrives, the crew must choose between getting the perfect shot, or heeding the locals' warning: "Don't take treasure from the Bowerbird."

It’s About Value, it’s About Time

Unpublished

A child sees a ghost in the showroom of a Rooms-To-Go discount furniture store in Jacksonville, Florida.