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BRINGING IMAGINATION ALIVE ON THE PAGE

 

 

(C) by Jesse Krenzel

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Image by Juli Kosolapova

Greetings. Posted here are links to three complete short stories, samples of my published short fiction in genres ranging from horror and fantasy to science fiction. Also included is news about recent and forthcoming publications. I hope you find the contents and links both interesting and entertaining. 

"SCAVENGER"

In Earth's near future, famine rules peoples' lives. A desperate David Lathrop risks everything to scavenge bits of alien wreckage from a crashed spacecraft to sell for food. Luck is with him this night when he finds a priceless alien artifact, but he’s stayed too long in the secured, walled-in crash-site. Now he must find his way out through the darkness and the tangled alien jungle growth before he’s caught, or worse.

"Scavenger" was first published in the anthology, Delirium Corridor in 2020."  Read the story as a PDF copy below.. 

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"THE POST"

In this blended Sci-Fi - Horror short, two quarrelsome planetary marines have been left behind on a dangerous and desolate planet to wait for the return of their rescue ship.

"The Post" was originally published in Santa Barbara Literary Journal Volume 3, June 2019. It was later performed by Hawk & Cleaver’s, "The Other Stories." Below are links to both the PDF. text and to the Podcast.

"THE DO-OVER"

In this fantasy short, a man is overcome by a sudden and irresistible compulsion to make an urgent journey to the tiny midwestern town of his childhood where he hopes to find the cure for the recurring nightmare that rules his life.

("The Do-Over" was originally published in Silver Blade Magazine).

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Coming Soon
"THE SCRANTON PLACE"
A Novella

The award winning short story, "WALLPAPER," is back with a sequel. The old Scranton place welcomes two new occupants as the strange figures on the wallpaper gradually reveal themselves and a terrifying gateway. This novella-length story will be available through my Amazon author's page soon. Follow me on Amazon or subscribe below for updates. 

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A child of The Twilight Zone, I wrote my first short story on lined paper with a dull pencil at nine years of age. Decades later I grew serious about learning the craft with some college coursework and participation in many writing conference workshops, especially those of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Publication of my short stories followed, both in print and digital media. Two were performed on podcasts in the UK and a third, "The Tarpin Maze," will be released in Jan. '24 by Hawke & Cleaver's "The Other Stories." Retired now from my legal career, I finally have time to write at my home in California's Sierra Nevada foothills.

See my Author's Page on Amazon for anthologies that have published my stories, including "Another Name for Darkness," "And the Dead Shall Sleep No More, Vol. II," and "The Delirium Corridor." 
                                                                              

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