Fiction
The novels.
Southern supernatural horror, a technothriller, a literary thriller, and a satire of the modern workplace.
Southern Horror · A Novel The Usual
Nobody Leaves Hungry
In a garrison town that has perfected the art of forgetting its own, the kindest man in Fayetteville runs the diner where nobody leaves hungry — and the thing beneath the floor has been feeding on the unmissed for forty years.
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Southern Horror · A Novel The Good News
You’re Not Alone Anymore
A loosely connected companion to The Usual — same world, same warm face at the door. In Marion, Missouri, the missing don’t leave tracks, and a kind old man goes door to door with the good news that you’re not alone anymore.
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Southern Horror · A Novel The Brood
They were never supposed to drink blood.
Every thirteen years the cicadas come up to sing. This spring they came up to feed — a thirteen-year brood that has learned to drink blood, and a thousand ordinary people who decide to save themselves.
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Southern Horror · A Novel The Telling
A Novel of the Unheard
In Creal Springs, Illinois, the men who finally confess their worst secret get three nights — and something beneath the old Springs Hotel has been listening for a hundred years.
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Technothriller · A Novel The Autopilot
Let Phoenix take the wheel.
The safest car on the road drives itself — and a warm voice named Phoenix calls the kids by name. Then the cars begin to choose, and a free, automatic update is the attack.
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Literary Thriller · A Novel The Record
A Novel of Nineteen Days
A dying salesman on death row kept every receipt of his life. Told backward from the gurney and forward from the road, it is a confession by a man who cannot feel what he did.
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Satire · A Novel Sisyphus.gov
A Workplace Comedy About Impossible Tasks
A sharp, funny, uncomfortably accurate novel about the mythology of the modern workplace — and a serious diagnosis of why good organizations break good people. (It doubles as the case study for the leadership work.)
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