So… remember when I recently lamented that short-story writers are the best secret-keepers?

Well, I got tired of keeping that secret… for a few of my stories, at least!

I’m thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of my very first SHORT STORY COLLECTION!

I’ve partnered with the Saga mobile app (where my Hart & Cole series will soon find a new home) to also release some of the short stories that I’ve written over the past 15+ years. They desperately needed a home and a wider audience than just me! 🙂 

I never really know what to do with short stories… they’re these little fissures of INK (usually tinged with darkness) that slip through unbidden, and after they pour out in their insular perfection, then what?

…What do I do with them?

I’d shared a few with my Writer’s Guild, futilely entered a couple in competitions, or sometimes sent to a friend, but mostly they just sat there on my laptop, unloved. 

Thanks to the Saga mobile app, I finally have an avenue to share them with others, all prettily packaged and thematically preserved for posterity!

The first “pretty package” (because I have more planned!) comes in the form of “Amalgamated Darkness“, a compilation of 8 short stories that sketch human nature at its darkest hour.

“Amalgamated Darkness” – what’s it about?

Here’s the blurb:

A girl becomes a woman – with another’s blood on her hands.
An athlete is propelled by bloodlust to a senseless act.
A boy becomes the custodian of his mother’s madness.
A young woman chooses a path to self-destruction in her partner.
A village enacts its own justice system.
A man fixates on a mysterious young girl.
A misfit evolves from observer to admirer to aggressor.
An act of youthful folly consumes a woman’s sanity.

Thought-provoking and evocative, these tales take power in their universality: they could happen anywhere, at any time, to anyone. From virtuous innocence to tainted experience with a sprinkle of the supernatural, these eight captivating short stories take you on a journey to the darkness that fuels the often ordinary lives of people that inhabit the world around us.

“Amalgamated Darkness” will be exclusively available on the Saga mobile fiction app. Coming soon!