Welcome to The Happy Place
Updated: 7/13/2025
Where is your happy place? Can you picture it in your minds eye? Does it have birds chirping? Perhaps a sunny day by the beach. Waves lapping up onto the shore. While you take a nap. No troubles. No bills. No real responsibilities. Or perhaps, it’s just a quiet place. Silence, after all, can heal so many things.
My happy place? It happens to reside somewhere on the corner of Happiness Lane and Horror Street. That place where you think everything is going to be alright and then it isn’t and you’re confused and unsure. Self-doubt creeps in and before you know it, you’re trapped with no way to escape that place you thought was happy but turns out is anything but…
You’ve just entered that space. My space. And I can’t promise you’ll make it out okay or alive, but I can promise you’ll never forget what you read while you’re here…
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Over 350+ posts to read from my backlog!
First Edition - Updates on my writing journey sent on the 1st of every month (and sometimes mid-Month).
Notes from a Writer - My thoughts and opinions as a writer of fiction and community organizer who wants to help fellow fiction writers pursue their publishing dreams.
Free to Read Fiction ← Click this link for access to some of my fiction that is available for anyone to read and get an idea of the kind of storytelling I do here.
100 Word Stories - The first 10 stories. For access to the complete archive, keep scrolling.
Short Stories - The Beast / The Historical Chef / Happy Eater / Killer Keys [Part 1] / Night Shift [Part 1]
Serials - Daxton [Episodes 1 - 5] / Eternal Forest [Episodes 1 - 5] / Spire and the Dragonwood Affair [2 Episodes]
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100 Word Stories [daily] - On a journey to 1,000 consecutive. All stories will be behind the paywall by 2/1/2026.
Short Stories - Word length ranges from 500 - 10,000 but they are all horror.
My Bradbury Year [2025 - 2026] - Every week, for 52 weeks, I’ll read one public domain short story and write my own short story with a behind-the-story extra as well.
The Serials - Previously published novel series, released weekly. First 5 Chapters/Episodes of novels and first 2 Chapters/Episodes of novellas/novelettes are Free-to-Read.
Murder Pen Society* - Nothing like a good murder mystery or horror to get the blood pumping and mind reeling. I like reading how to write these genres as well as reading/watching/listening these genres and then analyzing them. Book club anyone? If you like horror and mysteries like I do, then joining this society is a must!
Stardate* - I’m slowly watching every Star Trek television series and movies and reviewing each and every single one. I am a trekkie and proud of it! 🖖🏾
Notes from a Gamer* - As a Nintendo Gamer, these are reviews on games I’m playing both old and new.
NYC Bookworm* - Reviews of books and movies of the past, present and future that I’ve seen, want to see, or I’m rewatching.
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