Published / Award-Winning
Author’s Note (2025)
Butler Community College Flash Fiction Horror Contest–Fan Favorite
Short Fiction
Dead Man’s Present
- A county auditor inventorying a recluse’s estate discovers a ledger that binds whatever is counted, including people, to the property.
Six Below
- A recovered interrogation transcript from rural Minnesota captures more than the willing confession of what a teenager did to his bully.
In Progress
In the Name of Heaven
- A revisionist western exploring religion as a leash in 1890s Colorado.
Tales from Ashworth County
- Rural psychological horror set in a fictional Minnesota county. Includes “Six Below” and other stories in development.
M.T. Swift 