New on Scribd!

the After is now available on Scribd, for free to download. I've put up the first 43 pages -- everything that's here on the blog so far -- and will update that periodically, so if you're just getting started in this story, or if you like to read stuff away from your 'puter (imagine that!), go download it so far and take my story with you!

Click here to download the After on Scribd.

Also, I've updated the Scribd version of Up So Down, the previous story that appeared here. The full version is available, for a limited time only, as I edit it down to publishable levels. Go print that off and read the entire story one last time.

If you missed Up So Down, here's a recap: When Sarah's fiance drowns on the night of his bachelor's party, Sarah is left alone to cope with the loss by caring for her dying mother, halfheartedly joining a group trying to prove there's a serial killer at work, and hating her brother, Bumpy. Bumpy was there on the night of the drowning, but too drunk to remember anything, and he copes his own way: By moving to Las Vegas, getting engaged, and accidentally selling a sitcom script. Up So Down is a moving, engaging look at how dramatic events in a life can seem commonplace, and about how, in life, we don't get to know people in chronological order, but instead watch a life unfold the way the book does: backwards and forwards, up and down, but always interestingly.

Man, that sounds good, doesn't it? Makes me want to go read it, and I already know how it ends!

Click here to download the complete novel Up So Down, for free, on Scribd!

Also available:

Short stories: The Deal, Astrid Forever, and The Thing In The Basement: Three great short horror stories, in their complete form. Look for more to come, and keep watching AfterDark for other short horror stories.

AND the best eroticromancesci-fiadventurehorrorfantasy story ever -- and the only one featuring sexy lesbian zombies, naked valkyries, octopi, and a battle for the 73 dimensions... it's the complete version (complete so far) of Lesbian Zombies Are Taking Over The World! (Don't know what that is? Click here to go to the blog version!)

And don't forget to check out the free first chapter of Eclipse. Here's an ad for that book: