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   Novel

        Dark the Dead Keep (2025)

           While the fires of the Inquisition rage through sixteenth-century Europe, a young couple unleashes an ancient evil in an attempt to escape the wrath of the church.

Hixson Pyke

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   Short Fiction

        The Itinerant

           Follows an eighteenth-century circuit rider through the outlands of the Appalachian frontier as he fights an infection that slowly deteriorates his mind, unsure if the thing pursuing him through the wilderness is real or imagined.

        Nickajack

         A freighthopper visits a secluded campsite where his girlfriend disappeared in the river a decade earlier. On the same night each year, “something like her body” comes calling from the rapids.

       The Last Ride

       Two young men hitchhiking through the mountains walk a shortcut through a hollow that locals warned them to avoid.

      Siren Day

          Dystopian tale of a boy who sweeps city streets for a corporation that took over a de facto government. To quell dissent, the company upped capex and pivoted its tech stack toward ethnic cleansing, now the primary driver of its change engine into Q3. Trained to keep his eyes on his work, the boy finds himself a target when he starts to look up.

     Dark Wood

         East Tennessee, 1982. A flood stretches the sheriff’s department thin. When tragedy strikes an ex-convict and his daughter, he turns to mountain justice to punish the crime.

     Omega

         A hybrid/flash piece. A gutter punk kid crashing in a flop house befriends a runaway battling addiction. He’s forced to reconcile hard truths when she takes extreme measures to escape her abuser.