fiction

  • How are you?

    How are you?

    We’re the laughing stock of the world (we’ve been for a decade), there’s winter weather on the way to Dallas, and Ted Cruz is already on a plane. I’ve played this game before. All bullshit aside, how are you? I was speaking with a neighbor a few moments ago about him getting gypped on web…

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  • Dallas: Beware Road Pirates

    Repeat: two weeks ago, our rock and roll governor (except on uneven surfaces) signed a law that requires ALL Texas Sheriff’s Departments to assist ICE when they’re operating in their jurisdiction. I know, they all pee a little like whipped-dogs every time I mention this. In the Tenth Street Freedman’s District, Dallas Sheriff’s Office invisible…

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  • A Taste of Home Chapter Two (read by Rev. Dare Cloud)

    When last we left, a poor kid and two ambulance jockeys were ripped to shreds by an unknown creature in the woods. Backing it up about ten hours, we meet our main character Toby Liberman and his best friend Johnny Haynes. Now, I’m not one to give warnings in fiction, but Toby and Johnny are…

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  • A Decade Behind The Times

    A long time ago, in a rural-on-the-cusp-of-suburban neighborhood not far away, I ran into my first real person from TV Land. I was a kid; I didn’t know better. I truly thought that since he was from California, he probably knew movie stars. We start out dumb, and some of us stay there. Throughout the…

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  • I Hope It Was Still Under Warranty

    I know many of the things I speak about on this page are extraordinary, but that’s always been my life. I make up things for a living, and I can’t make this stuff up. I mean, I could, but I don’t need to. It actually happens. My wife was on the couch doing some course…

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  • How’s Your Butt Enjoying That Seat? Comfy?

    Boy, you know it’s going to be a good one when the AI image generator won’t even touch it… It’s a chilly morning in Dallas. No birds are fighting each other outside my writing window for bits of seed. Also, the guy across the way who’s been roofing his own house all by himself isn’t…

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  • A Taste of Home by Rev. Dare Cloud, Chapter Two

    Welcome back to Twin Oaks, my friends! This was my first fiction novel published back in 2010. In the last chapter, we lost poor Ryan Weldon and a couple of ambulance jockeys to a strange beast. Now, ten hours before that event, we meet our main character, Toby Liberman and his best friend Johnny Haynes……

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  • The French Mistake.

    The French Mistake.

    I’m disgusted. Sick to my stomach. Seriously hurting. As an Army veteran, a disabled one at that, I truly thought our military would be the final barrier between our president and chaos. I was wrong. Certainly the Republican party wouldn’t stop him because they’re all profiting. Certainly the Democratic party, the one in which I…

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  • A Taste of Home: Chapter One

    But first, let me explain…

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  • Home.

    Home.

    Toby Liberman is nearing the end of his rope. After a fateful confrontation with his wife’s lover, he is chased into the woods only to be discovered by an unidentifiable creature. He is attacked and rendered unconscious. Upon waking at the scene of a gruesome triple homicide, Toby is arrested as the sole suspect and…

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  • A Highland Park Christmas

    A Highland Park Christmas

    This is a little short story I pecked out a couple of years ago. I was taking a shortcut through the wealthy part of Dallas to skip some traffic. I got to thinking about how many small town girls I knew who claimed to have paranormal abilities. Then I imagined what the spirits tell them…

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  • Blood & Fascism

    Blood & Fascism

    Finally! A REAL Christmas Story!

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  • Christmas Gifts For Grandma

    The scariest bathroom ornament at the nursing home.

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  • Happy Trails…

    Happy Trails…

    Happy trails…

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  • Christmas Fangs? Fangs-Giving?

    This little angel. We got her as a gift for our son on Christmas 2020. Knee-deep in the pandemic. We didn’t even know if we were going to have a Christmas that year. Honestly, I was frightened for the future at that point. I still am, but for completely different reasons. Her name was Lyla,…

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  • Capturing Life: Spending Moments in Memories

    The color Purple doesn’t make me think of Whoopi, and I watch The View. Daily.

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  • Stu, Stu, Studio.

    Stu, Stu, Studio.

    Their condo’s a museum, and no one comes to see ‘um, they really got the ’tism, the Cloud-Miller family. Da da da dum, snap, snap…

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  • One Foot In Front Of The Other

    Reviews. Write them.

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  • Navigating Indie Bookstores as an Author

    Most prefer to just get their kicks from reading vanity plates on BMW’s

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  • Discover Katie’s Journey in Far From Home – 50% Off

    Luckily, I live near a post office

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  • It’s a weird world, boo.

    It’s a weird world, boo.

    At least that’s how I tried to explain it.

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  • Today’s Offering? A Taste Of Home

    50% off is a great way to start the weekend

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  • Unlisted Number.

    Unlisted Number.

    Same wounds; better bandaids.

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  • It’s Here! Saddle Up!

    Like audiobooks? Like the old west? Like the scary/gory? If you answered “yes”, then this is your lucky day. Tumble Bleed hits Audible!!! What do you get when fabulous western authors blend a twist of terror into their western stories and horror authors add a touch of the American Old West to their scary horror…

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