Category: Uncategorized

A reviewer by the name of Elisa Rolle had some wonderful things to say about SEA, SWALLOW ME, including:

As I said, the anthology is not simple, but it’s mesmerizing. It’s full of color and flavor, an intoxicating mix that catches you while reading and lingers afterward. All the tales are mostly sad, but not without hope; the romance is not the target of the characters and so it’s not even the final point of the stories; they are almost all self discovery journey, and the ending point of the journey not always is a light and beautiful paradise.

The rest of her review may be read here.

Richard Labonte says of Sea, Swallow Me:

Poetic imagery, clever plotting, and a mature writer’s mix of magic realism, creepy horror, whimsical fantasy, and African-American folklore make this a stellar debut.

Read the rest of the review here.

1. The Safety of Thorns. A Southern Gothic retelling of the Erl King, with African mythology.
2. Etiolate. David Lynchian erotic horror in Baltimore’s goth scene.
3. Her Spirit Hovering. Modern Southern Gothic with black humorous twist
4. Come Join We. A young boy with the ability to see spirits, set in a Southern coastal island in the 1960s.
5. Sea, Swallow Me. A tourist has an encounter with a sea god.
6. Circus Boy Without A Safety Net. An allegorical coming out story.
7. Strange Alphabets. Historical fantasy. The poet Rimbaud meets his unlikely muse.
8. Magpie Sisters. Flash Fiction about the goddess of kleptomaniacs.
9. A Bird of Ice. Historical Fantasy. A twelfth century Japanese monk attracts the attention of a mischievous shape shifter.
10. Catch Him By the Toe. Southern Gothic novella. Race relations and the supernatural collide in the sleepy Southern town in the 1930s.

My forthcoming book of short stories, published by Lethe Press, is now available for pre-order at Amazon.  My good friend, the artist Thomas Drymon, is currently designing the cover.  Three preliminary designs are below: