Short Stories

• 1) "Loretta's Garden" -- Hardboiled issue #06, 6/93                    
• 2) "Daria" -- Terminal Fright, 6/94
  3) "The Hunter" -- Kracked Mirror Mysteries, 1/95    
• 4) "The Mezzeraut" -- XIZQUIL, 6/95
  5) "The Hawthorne's Wind" -- Terminal Fright, 6/95                   
• 6) "Bad Blood" -- Plot magazine, 9/95
  7) "The Promotion" --Texas Rangers (Berkley), 9/04                   
• 8) "Rattlesnakes and Skunks" - Out West, 6/06              
• 9) "The Assignment" Map of Murder, 2/07                                
• 10) "The Quarry" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 05/08
  11) "Leave of Absence" -- Amazon Shorts, 9/06                          
• 12) "Call of Duty" -- Amazon Shorts, 11/06
  13) "See Also Murder" -- Amazon Shorts, 12/06                         
• 14) "A Rain Dance in Chelsea" -- Amazon Shorts, 6/07
  15) "The Trouble with Wind" -- Boys' Life, 11/09                        
• 16) "Silent Hill" -- Ghost Towns, PINNACLE, 11/10
  17) "Daddy's Little Girl" -- Mysterical-E, 4/08                            
• 18) "The Ridges" -- Zombie Raccoons, DAW, 10/09
  19) "Lucky is Another Country" -- Lit 103.3, 11/09                    
• 20) "By Way of Angel Mountain" Point Yonder, 12/11
  21) "Pushback" -- Lit 103.3, 1/11                                              
•  22) "The Last Master of Aeronautical Winters- DAW 12/12
  23) "Shadow of the Crow" -- Beat to a Pulp, Round 2, 5/12        
• 24) "Lost Mountain Pass" -- The Traditional West 7/11
• 25) "The Treasure Box" -- Cactus Country 2, 12/11                    
• 26) "The Kill Stand" -- Indiana Crime, 12/11/1
• 27) "The Longest Night" -- Slay Bells and Six Guns, 10/12       
•  28) "The Adventure of the Rounded Ocelot" --11/14
• 29) "How To Swim" -- Indy Writes Books, 12/14                        
• 30) "Point Blank, Texas" -- Lone Star Lawless - 11/17 
  31) "The Prairie Fire" -- Five Star 6/18                                      
• 32) "The Harrows" -- The Spoilt Quilt 11/19
  33) The Buffalo Trace (novella) -- 06/2020              
• 34) Wind in His Face (novella) -- 11/2020
  35) "A Cow Hunter's Lament" -- Five Star -- 01/23                      
• 36) "A Crossing Sun" Five Star -- 03/23
  37) "Hell Mary" -- Pulse Publishing -- 02/2024                    
• 38) "The Low Waters" -- Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine -- 05/2024
• 39) "Dandy Joe's Last Buck Off" -- Made of Rust and Glass -- 12/2023    
• 40) "Billy Moon" -- Hoosier Noir 02/2024

** "The Trigger" -- 1995 Murder & Mayhem Short Story Award -- Honorable Mention

** "The Promotion" --Texas Rangers (Berkley Publishing Group), 9/2004  (2005 WWA Spur Award winner)

** "See Also Murder" -- Amazon Shorts, 12/2006   (2007 Derringer Award finalist)

** "Point Blank, Texas" -- Lone Star Lawless (Wildside Press), 11/2017 (2018 WWA Spur Award Finalist)