FICTION & ANTHOLOGIES

Short Fiction

~ A new fantasy dragon story, "The Dream Child" in DRAGONS COMPOSED (5/09)... See Anthologies below.

~ My eerie story, "Cat Cries," will be in the new Cat Tales Magazine, coming summer '09 from Wildside Press.

~ My short story, "Bad Luck, Good Fortune," won third place in the Warren Newport Library, Gurnee, IL, Fiction Contest. A longer version was published in the summer '08 NEWN Magazine.

~ Flash stories in Flashshot: "Trust Me," 2/1; "Treasure Hunt," 2/20. Read "Dinner Time," "For Maman" & "Secrets," (Petey the Dachshund's dark side), 1/25, at my flash fiction page.

~ Flash, "Christmas Dreams," published at Apollo's Lyre.

~ A flash, "Grandmother's Green Thumb," is in the Sept./Fall '07 print issue of Mouth Full of Bullets. Read it HERE.

~ "Closing Time at the Red Ball Cafe" is in the Spring '07 issue of MFOB. My story, "Say It With Flowers," is in the debut Fall '06 issue.

~ My short horror story, "The Witch Tree," was a contest winner and published by Echelon Press! Will it be him...or them? Read more...

Anthologies

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~ An uneasy mother in medieval Belgium copes with an unusual child who says he sees dragons... does he? Or will he put his whole family in danger? A new fantasy story, "The Dream Child" in DRAGONS COMPOSED from Kerlak Publishing (May '09).

~ A new Sam story, "Fire and Magic," is in the HOT new anthology, THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT. See details & excerpt.

FLASHSHOT - Daily 100 word email fiction. Year Two: "Beauty Sleep" #105; "The Day Job" #107; "Finding Thumbelina" #110, See www.gwthomas.org.

FLASHSHOT, Year One: "Dream Girl" #176. "Cleaning the Closet" #406; "The Frog Prince" #421 (read story at Author's Den/Verstraete); "Tea Time" #431; "False Advertising" #532; "Ghoulish Games" #543; "Perfection" #646; "Secret Recipe" #616; "Last Meal" #637.

BULLETPOINTS - 1 to 500 word short mysteries by members of the Short Mystery Fiction Society to be published by Wildside Press. My stories include, "By Request" (11 words!); "Cooking Lessons," 55 words; and "The Winner," 384 words.

GRAVE POSSESSIONS - Dreams come true at the circus (don't they?) in my story, "Dead Books, Old Things and Circus Dreams." (Out of Print, Cyber-Pulp Books.)

HELL HATH NO FURY - An invitation to a home-cooked meal seems to signal that all is forgiven in my story, "The Dinner Party." (Out of Print, Cyber-Pulp Books.)

Other Published Fiction

~ CVerstraete.com's first short story contest: Read the "Miniatures & Mystery Fiction" winners.

~ "Luck O' The Irish" 3/04, See archives, Mysterical-E.

~ "Motherly Love" published in 31 Eyes. (Site offline).

~ "His and Hers," Feb. '04, MINDPRINTS, Alan Hancock College.

~ "Nursery Crimes," (55 words), Jan. '04 FUTURES Mysterious Anthology. "Agnes & The Nincompoop" Oct/Nov/Dec '02.

~ "The Dotted Line" - 5/02 Orchard Press Mysteries, archives.

~ "Just Like in the Movies" - 2002 Cenotaph Pocket Edition. (Site offline.)

~ "Booked for the Holidays" - "Much Ado About Clucking, " Laughter Loaf; see archives.

~ "Paying the Price" - Honorable Mention winner, Issue One, FLASHQUAKE, see archives.