BAM's Purchasable Stories

People often ask what stories I have for sale.

Here's a list of anthologies and a standalone mini novel where you can find the answer.

Click the pictures below for links.

Please read a few, review, and share the tales with others.

BAR BUDS

Summary: A small town sheriff and recent widower gets a call late at night about his best friend, Alex, dancing in a fountain. This story was dedicated my bar buds who were there for me during very dark times.

Note: I receive 50% of every purchase and 10% of each sale goes to the South Texas Persian Rescue: a non profit cat adoption clinic my niece, Barry, loves.

Write Out Publishing

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GLASS PUZZLE

Summary: A locally famous comedian has a late night reunion with his childhood friend, now a serial killer. What can go wrong? Based on my childhood friend who moved to California to become famous.

Note: Under the pen name Shelly Macaroy - an author in my manuscript: Diaries of Karma.

MacKenzie Publishing's Two Eyes Open Anthology 

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ZEITGEIST

Summary: English as a Second Language Teacher from America wakes up in a Japanese jail cell covered in someone else's blood. Detectives seem certain he killed someone. Yet, the poor guy can't remember anything, nor can he speak Japanese.

Note: One amazon reviewer called this piece, "Authentically scary as hell."

HellBound Books Publishing's Shopping List Anthology

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ZOINKS

Summary: The dream team came to my middle school when I was a kid. Of all people Charles Barkley sat next to me, and inspired so much in a few seconds.

Peacock Journal Anthology, Little Red Tree Publishing

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INKLING

Summary: A linguistics professor has a rare spine condition, which makes his back move like a slinky. Only the creatures from outer space he's teaching English to can save his life in this short comedy.

Tell-Tale Inklings #3 Anthology

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Chain

Summary: The narrator describes what it feels like to lose a sister to alcohol addiction. 

Note: This drama is written under a pen name Scott "Allan" Terrier and it's based on my sister.

Embracing the Shadow Anthology with Down in the Dirt TV Scars Publications

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YOU VALIDATED DESTINY THROUGH HAPPENSTANCE

Summary: It's a poem about a very strange experience.

Bindweed Magazine Issue 5 Anthology

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HOW MY LIFE CHANGED THE TIME I ALMOST GOT MUGGED

Summary: A teen's life changes when he gets held at gunpoint, as will the mugger's. 

Note: WINNER: Exceptional Short Story Award.

Writer's Ezine Volume VII to XII Anthology

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NOT YOU AGAIN & ZILLION

Summary: 100-word comedies. 

Note: FEATURED STORIES.

The Stray Branch Anthology: Fall/Winter 2017

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UNTIMELY DEMISE

Summary: Someone is about to die, and you get to read their final moments in this 100-word comedy.

Flash Fiction Magazine's #1 Anthology

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KINDNESS and DECENCY

Summary: Experience a shooting from the point of view of a suicidal hero and then a homicidal maniac in an American grocery store.

Note: WINNER of the Wordsmith Competition and Story of the Month

Crack the Spine XIV Anthology

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BIKUTIMU

Summary: An older man gets seduced by a teenage girl on a subway in Japan. He has dark motives for her, and vice versa. 

Note: Another Shelly Macaroy piece.

9 Tales Told in the Dark #21 Anthology's Bride of Chaos series

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DEATH PIE

Summary: A kid wants to win a Halloween contest. 

Note: WINNER of a real Halloween Contest and Story of the Month

Bartleby Snopes Literary Journal and Press

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Far From the Crowd

Summary: It's not easy to tell people goodbye because you'll probably die. That's what happens in the prequel to me having back operations in real life. 

Note: Editor's Favorite Story

StoryShelter's I Am Here. The Untold Stories of Everyday People Anthology