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Check out a brand-new, free to read crime story of mine called, "Don't Be a Fool", published at Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight. It's hard to write compelling crime stories of under a thousand words, but I think I captured something pretty cool with this one. Click here to give it a read and please share with friends! 
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Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! I hope you all have things you feel thankful for and get a chance to spend tomorrow with people you care about, enjoying some delicious food. Be careful of the aftermath, though - I'm sure there's a story or two out there about ghost turkeys seeking their holiday vengeance!  Check it out! Best Thrillers reviewed my most recent novel, STRANGERS' KINGDOM, calling it "A small town police procedural with a big heart and a shocking finale." Read the full review yourself here and then get your own copy here!  Somehow, I think I forgot to ever post about this here, but a couple months ago my mystery flash fiction "Devils in the Details" was published over at Guilty Crime Story Magazine's flash fiction series. Go read it and let me know what you think!  I recently did an interview about Guilty Crime Story Magazine with the Duotroopers! Please check it and give it a read!  Skywatcher Press's second volume of the UNLEASHED! series is now out and includes my story "Rent Money" - a story that toes the line between crime and existential horror.  The anthology contains twenty stories of various kinds of terror, fear, and horror - perfect for Halloween!
Get yours on Kindle or in print today! It's been published, so I can announce it now: my western story, "The Right to Hang" came in second place in On the Premise's thirty-eighth short story contest - out of 631 entries! You can read it here for free!  I'm very grateful to OTP publishers Tarl and Bethany for not only appreciating my work, but for valuing it so highly when the competition was so stiff.
You may remember my mentioning my story "Let It Go" (the second P.I. Art Van Leuven story I've written) was accepted for Unsettling Reads's Autumn Noir anthology. Well, now it's almost here!  Original tales about the other, moodier season of change
The short stories and poems in Autumn Noir skew toward the gritty, the atmospheric, the strangely, dangerously beguiling. Some mysteries unfold as gently as a wisp of chimney smoke. Others bring the heart-thumping thrills of an end-of-summer storm. In all of them, you’ll find characters as vibrant as fall foliage and dialogue as crisp as autumn air.Join the down (but maybe not quite out), the struggling, the wicked, the forlorn, and the broken-hearted as they stumble and sometimes fall all the way down. To paraphrase Betty Davis, “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy read.” Be prepared to recognize a few of your favorite authors and to discover some new ones. Includes tales by Bev Vincent, Bethany Maines, Teresa Trent, Brandon Barrows, Stephen D. Rogers, and many more from the crime, mystery, noir, suspense, and thriller genres. Includes the following stories & poems:
Pre-order now for only 99 cents before release when the price goes up to $3.99! The Redwood Press anthology The Lost Librarian's Grave is out now and includes my story "Among Stones and Stars," the first non-Azuma Kuromori weird fiction I've written in four or five years.  Check out the ToC:
Witches, Magicians, and Sorcery
The Dead, the Mad, and the Terrified
Ancient Days and Apocalypse Now
Strange Adventures and Weird Journeys
A Murder of Gargoyles
The Scientific Method
Ghosts and the Grave
Demon-Haunted World
An Eye for an Eye
End of the Line
Get yours today! Just wanted to share a great new review of my second story collection, THE CASTLE-TOWN TRAGEDY!  |
Brandon BarrowsI'm Brandon and I write comic books, prose and poetry. I own dozens of clever and interesting t-shirts.  Archives
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