"Death by Numbers" Honorary mention in Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition
(The requirements for this competition were that you use the first and last lines of one of three books/stories--Through the Looking Glass by C.S. Lewis, The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, or A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker. I chose the latter because I was not at all familiar with the story and I wouldn’t be influenced to tell it a certain way.) Please, God, let him telephone me now. I’m only asking for one call. One call so I know he’s okay, so I can tell him I’m okay. So
"The Myth of the Slayer" in Tuck Magazine
http://tuckmagazine.com/2018/06/11/fiction-myth-of-the-slayer/ I have had many names. Each name a lifetime, a story unto itself. But the one I wish to tell is the first, when I still carried my birth name… The young scribe stops writing. “Master, this story is beloved, well known. Might I document elements of your illustrious life that are not? Before you…?” The boy blushes. Mentioning the Master’s impending death is tantamount to treason. “Before I am Ascended?” the old man
