Todd L Sherman

Rise, Osiris!

Collapse and climb. Stories of myths demolished and reassembled. Gods claw into the modern world to drown in ancient pools. Witches and rockets, vampires and titans, beating hearts and broken minds crash against the indifferent mountain of time. And the debris collected maybe forms a new mosaic, a s...

Fluid Babies

Two obsessions run in parallel streams: a bum in a city searches for the ultimate undoing of a wasting drug; an everyday man battles the world's crazed masses to keep his family safe. In an insanely twisted landscape, both beings hope to float the waters to saner isles free from the snapping jaws of...

Pitching Ice Cubes at the Sun: A Book of the Dead

Darkly comic and clearly tragic, these seventeen short stories of strange fiction will take you to the twisted landscapes of shadowed imagination. Dead animals purposely thrown in a neighbor's yard; a shiftless hitchhiker stalked by the"Ice Cube Killer;" two scientists who discover a new color and a...

Kong Hong

Wormhole hoppers and lone wolves; the lovelorn and lovers of violence; those reaching out by reaching in and others too opiated to know the difference. Six beings in a stew brewed in the time it takes the moon to show its full face--swimming, foundering, drowning to get to the surface of existence. ...

Opals for Libras

From enchanted forests to blood-drenched battlefields to the spiders of doubt crawling within one's home, there lies at the hardened milky heart one stabbing feeling: LOSS. Loss of liberty, loss of life, loss of love. And when wielded in the supernal hands of the enemy—whether sorcerers, disembodied...

Paralytic States

Warmblooded dreams trapped in ice. The limbs of phantoms and demons grab at a girl of plastic love. A glass jug smashed by a meteorite sends coins to vampires clutching at empty meaning. A mother and daughter as pale sacrifices to the memory of mythology caught in a house aflame. The senses go. The ...

Pitching Ice Cubes at the Sun