Samples:
To Keep a Secret — 700 Words — Crime/PTSD/Noir — Mystery Tribune — Click HERE to read.
Perhaps my New Year’s Resolution to leave my job as a Mormon Youth Pastor and take over the Miami Drug Trade Was Not Well Thought Out — 900 Words — Comedy — Robot Butt — Click HERE to read.
Crime:
The Hand Print — 300 Words — Vigilante Justice — Summer 2019 Issue — *Winner of Mystery Tribune’s Inaugural Micro-Fiction Contest*
A Trailer on the Outskirts of Town — 2050 Words — Crime — Trouble No More Anthology from Down and Out Books
The Intolerance — 700 Words — Noir — Shotgun Honey
The Hustle — 100 Words — Crime — Punk Noir Magazine
The Knowledge — 100 Words — Crime — Punk Noir Magazine
The Fighting Squid — 700 Words — Comedy Noir — Shotgun Honey
Clean — 960 Words — Southern Gothic Crime — Mystery Tribune
Big Nasty — 2900 Words — Crime — Yellow Mama Issue 85
The Airport Hilton — 2050 Words — Crime/Noir — Tainted Hearts & Dirty Hellhounds Bristol Noir Anthology 1
A Reliable Belt — 1300 Words — Dark Police Procedural — Mystery Tribune
For the Russians — 900 Words — Espionage — Mystery Tribune
A Meeting at the Dew Drop Inn — 3900 Words — Crime/Noir — Mystery Weekly Magazine
The Naughty List — 700 Words — Christmas Noir — Shotgun Honey
Bobo and the Knife — 530 Words — Crime — Pulp Modern Flash
The Knife Angel — 1200 Words — British Crime — Punk Noir Magazine
Overpower — 260 Words — Pandemic Noir — The Nonconformist
The Exit — 1600 Words — Drug Dealer — The Means At Hand
The Lake — 3500 Words — Murder — Mystery Tribune — Summer 2018 print issue
A Good Man — 800 Words — Crime — Out of the Gutter Flash Fiction Offensive
The Name Tag — 800 Words — Murder — Thriller Magazine — Issue 3 — Summer 2019 Print Issue
The Orange Key — 3300 Words — Murder — (as Terry Brunt) — O Dark Thirty
A Red Flash — 1650 Words — Hard-Boiled Detective — Blue Room Books Southern Crime Anthology
Orange Clays — 1500 Words — Southern Noir — Mystery Tribune
The Short Fuse — 1300 Words — Western Crime — Frontier Tales Magazine & Killer Nashville Magazine
Comedy:
5 Signs you inadvertently Joined a Somali Pirate Crew and didn’t board your 4-day and 3-night Carnival Cruise to Nassau — 450 Words — Robot Butt
Ten Classic Children's Book Openings Rewritten by Famous Authors — 800 Words — Comedy — Jane Austin's Wastebasket (co-author Shawn Berman)
The Ten Steamiest Passages from Guy Fieri's Upcoming Romance Novel — 700 Words — Comedy — Points in Case (co-author Shawn Berman)
Five Common College-Bro White Boy Summer Pubic Hair Styles and What They Say About the Owner — 550 Words — Comedy — Word Brothel (co-author Shawn Berman)
Ben Affleck's Ten Step Method for Overcoming Heartbreak — 600 Words — Comedy — The Haven (co-author Shawn Berman)
The Tooth Fairy Deserves Peace: Stop the Tooth for Cash Trade — 800 Words — Noir/Comedy — Slackjaw
A Note from the Bird Outside Your Window — 700 Words — Comedy — Funny-ish
An Email on my Upcoming Zoom Presentation — Escaping and Avoiding COVID-Specific Doomsday Cults — 500 Words — Comedy — The Daily Drunk
This Veterans Day Remember the Real Heroes — 600 Words — Comedy — The Daily Drunk
Maybe I Don't Want to Be Found — 700 Words — Comedy — Points in Case
Literary:
Purple Flames — 2000 Words — Literary/War — Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors Volume 11 — Southeast Missouri State University Press — *Runner Up for the Terry Kay Prize*
A Meal with an Iraqi Woman Named Yonita — 1800 Words — Literary/War — Line of Advance Literary Journal — *Finalist for the Darron L. Wright Award*
The Taste of Cheap Tequila — 1500 Words — The Line Literary Journal/Columbia University
The Hostess Stand — 1300 Words — Literary/Crime — New Pop Lit
The Palm Grove — 3750 Words — War — The Deadly Writers Patrol — Fall 2017 print issue
Dead Camel — 2000 Words — War — Short-Story.me
Okefenokee Freedom — 2000 Words — Prison Break — As You Were: Military Experience and the Arts
A Wartime Breakfast with Ramirez — 1500 Words — Literary/War — Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors Volume 10 — Southeast Missouri State University Press
Narrative Non-Fiction:
The Bunker — 1050 Words — War/ Creative Non-fiction — The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature — October 2019 Issue
The Mask — 1500 Words — True Crime/ Narrative Non-Fiction — Noir Nation Issue 8- Print/ Thriller Magazine Re-Print
On the Avoidance of Asset Forfeiture — 1950 Words — Creative Non-fiction — Hoosier Noir's 420 Noir
The Marshal — 770 Words — Historic Non-Fiction Crime — Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine/Wildside Press
This Will Not End Well is a collection of fast-paced, exciting, and fun crime stories.