Template:FeaturedAuthor/February 2018

1) I'm your average nerd, love fantasy and horror, and hope some day to actually have a book of mine on the shelf. My focus in writing CP's is always on the story and mood. I want to make you unsure and uneasy, rather than momentarily startled. In real life I'm an IT technician, a career which has actually inspired my writing a few times.

2) My top stories:

Shut That Damned Door!: Inspired by a nightmare I had, a young man is sent to live with his great-aunt after the death of his parents and discovers her one major peculiarity: no doors in her house are ever to be left standing open. He doesn't think much about this until the day he finds a door that can't be closed...

Joe the Creep: Sometimes that creepy story your co-workers like to joke about isn't entirely fictional.

Misanthrope: I don't like to be around people, but waking up to discover myself entirely alone in my city wasn't what I had in mind. Neither was discovering I'm not so alone after all.

The House That Death Forgot: My longest and most widely-read pasta, this is the tale of a young woman lost in the middle of nowhere in the dead of night, forced to take shelter wherever she can. But Granny Royce's Road House, at once welcoming and strange, may end up being the sort of place it's rather hard to leave. Written in 2012 when I wasn't even quite sure what creepypastas were and just wanted to write a scary story.

3) My only real project is my blog, which has all the stories I've ever written save one on it. That one is an entry into Bogleech's Creepypasta Cookoff, and once that contest is over, it should be available on his site. It's called "The Mandela Effect is Real", and right now I'm also working on another short one called "Fix the Sink". I'm attempting in my more recent pastas to add a little gallows humor or quirkiness to my work. I'm also developing a novel, or perhaps web series, called "factory town." (written exactly like that, including the period) about a town that keeps on going after the factory that kept it afloat is closed down. Finally, I think I might return to Rocka Wellington, the company invented for my latest story, I.T. Water Cooler Welcome Thread. There's the potential for further adventures there.