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I can’t believe it is less than two weeks to Elgin Fringe Festival ! I have been a little insane this year, but am very much looking forward to performing my show, “If you Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him” in this years festival. (tickets available at ElginFringeFestival.com) Here are the details forContinue reading ““If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him” – at Elgin Fringe Festival 2026″

How Long have I been in this room,waiting to be sorted into heaven or hell while stale music slouches on my last nerve. Until it crystallizes, that this waiting room is my destination,an eternity of Kenny G, grinding against the unrelenting sound of my own thoughts. I could use some Fugazi Right Now © 12/22/2023Continue reading “I Could Use Some Fugazi Right Now (2 Sentence Horror Story)”

I used to hate the way our cat scratched at the door just as we were fading off to sleep. Until the day she mysteriously disappeared, and the scratching, only grew louder. You have your nine lives, we have but the one (Two Sentence Horror Stories) © 10/08/2023

“Why are you dressed up like a traffic light?” she asked. “shh…” I caution, “it’s the only way I’ve managed to avoid the robots, for this long.” Red Light Camera (Two Sentence Horror Stories) © 05/14/2023 From the collection Steer into the Skid

If you are free next Friday, 5/12, I am excited to be performing in a group piece with a bunch of excellent writers, dancers, and musicians as part of the Voices of Lake County – CLC spring showcase. The theme is “work and identity.” I am proud and humbled to be working with all ofContinue reading “Voices of Lake County Showcase”

The exact reason was never clear: muscle memory handed down from the ages, a key for a lock long lost. But we are nothing if not locked into our routines, human beings orbiting the sun at maximum velocity, counting our trips like rings in a tree stump. So I fell into my heritage, my habit,Continue reading “Our Humanity Lifted like Foam”

Snow glittered Mariah Carey Jack boots kick over the Thanksgiving turkey, thirsty for the blood of Jack O’lanterns and onward to a feast of Labor Day Bratwurst. War ON Christmas…just who are the aggressors? ChernoffWriting.com – War ON Christmas (Two Sentence Horror Stories) © 11/27/2022

Just as I feel my pillow’s magnetic pull, I drop my phone charger behind the nightstand. I reach back only to hear “Hey, I’m going to use that: anything behind the nightstand is mine” ChernoffWriting.com – Finders Keepers (Two Sentence Horror Stories) © 10/02/2022

So this “God” person just ends the story in 2012, because of some unexplained Mayan calendar thing? It continued as fan fiction but I wouldn’t bother, those volumes got pretty implausible and the narrative falls apart. ChernoffWriting.com – Fan Fiction(Two Sentence Horror Stories) © 10/01/2022 From the collection Steer into the Skid

Each one of us a riding the same nightmare, not knowing whose stop is next. Eyes dive across the car as the recoil of a single cough echoes like gunfire. ChernoffWriting.com – Commuter (Two Sentence Horror Stories) © 10/02/2021 From the collection Carry-out Carton Fortress