I used Amazon’s audiobook virtual voice for this short story. I’d love to use a ‘human’ narrator, but humans are expensive. Amazon’s virtual voice is free. Anyway, this is the first time I used it. I had to correct some mispronunciations, but it went rather smoothly and sounds okay. It took me awhile, and this was just a short story with 23 pages.

Six months before the events of Shepherd’s Watch...

The Foundry is freezing, the "hostage" is a duct-taped dummy named Steve, and the enemy is a vacuum cleaner with an attitude problem. Welcome to a day in the life of Onyx Tactical, where the only thing more dangerous than the mission is the banter.

Branded a liability after stopping a state-sanctioned assassination, a federal agent must use her unique talent for invisibility to evade a government kill squad until a rogue mercenary offers her a new life in the shadows.

Berlin. Five years ago. Jack Wolfe believes he is planning the mission that will buy his team their freedom. In reality, he is sitting across from his mentor, signing his own death warrant. Witness the moment the trap was set in this tense prequel to Shepherd’s Watch.

Zeroes and ones never bleed. People do.

Milo “Hex” Monroe hates the analog world. It’s messy, cold, and unpredictable. He prefers the clean logic of code, where every problem has a solution and every error can be deleted.

When a black-ops contract sends him deep into a repurposed Cold War bunker in Kyiv, the mission is simple: scrub a server before a Russian syndicate seizes it. It’s a digital extraction, the kind of job Milo was built for . . .

Here’s the second prequel short story, ‘The Ghost’, to my upcoming novel, ‘Shepherd’s Watch’: A tuxedo, a lie, and a lethal game of chance. Two years before the events of Shepherd’s Watch, Jason "Shade" Adler is on a solo mission in Prague. His target is a digital ledger held by a ruthless Russian arms dealer. His cover is a dissolute British playboy with money to burn…

The Sniper: Onyx Tactical Files #1. To save his team from a legendary sniper, the loudest man in Onyx Tactical must do the one thing he hates most: be quiet.

Horror, Supernatural, Short Story

When a struggling professor inherits a mysterious Victorian estate, she uncovers a blood-bound legacy and a dark force that has haunted her family for generations.

Pages: 67
Published: 2025

I wanted a funny comic about writing, so I had ChatGPT 4o write a script and then create the image. It took several iterations before I got something I liked. Basically, it was fixing continuity, call out boxes, and the text. I ended up taking the image into Photoshop to finish up little things by using generative AI.

Horror, Supernatural, Science Fiction

When a struggling artist takes mysterious pills that eliminate her need for sleep, she discovers the terrifying truth about entities that feed on human consciousness during imperceptible pauses in time.

Pages: 34
Published: 2025