Short Stories
Between 1991 and now, I've written many short stories, and a few garnered awards. Some are funny, some are dark, and some are both. Click on a title to read on a new tab.
Buouyancy
This was supposed to be an easy job. They fly down from Detroit to Tampa for a week, and in between doing the tourist act, they make Mantini disappear like Jimmy Hoffa. Everything had started out right. Then things stopped going right...
Weekend at Bernie's meets The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight as Lefty and Norm try to dispose of a body that just won't go away.
This story won the Tampa Writers Alliance 1997 Florida Fiction Award.
Low Tide
When a man rode out of town in the trunk of a car, he wasn’t coming back. That much Pablo already knew from his short experience as driver and errand boy for Desantis.
This story won the 2001 Hirschberg Award for Florida Writing.