Publications

PUBLICATIONS:

‘Til Death: the Horrors and Happy-Every-Afters of a Long Relationship, a book of dark love poetry, co-written with Janice Leach, (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2017)

• “Flora and Fauna,” a poem about werewolves in spring, was published in the HWA Poetry Showcase II, 2015. http://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Volume-II-ebook/dp/B016K46TXG

“Packing Foam,” my weird tale, was published at Daily Science Fiction, appropriately enough on Friday 13, Febr 2015. http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/magic-realism/james-frederick-leach/packing-foam

“Hard Truth,” HellNotes, Horror in a Hundred, 15 December 2014. (100 words about work day horror)

• “The Laughter of Dead Children” (Poem/Sentimental Nihilism) Grim Corps II, October 2013. http://grimcorps.com/magazine/
— I blogged about this publication, here:

• “Changed” (100-word Prose Poem/Lycanthrope Woes) 13 Quick Shivers from DailyNightmare.com, October 2013. https://gumroad.com/l/IZHm
— I blogged about this publication, here:
— This poem was also adapted for a promotional video which can be seen here:

• “Crawlspace” (Short Story/Home Improvement Horror) in Eerie Tales: Dreadful Delusions, 2012. Available HERE:
— Eerie Tales is a annual benefit anthology produced by the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers that supports a literacy project run by nuns. Can even you GET more wholesome than that?

• “Not Entertaining” in Necrotic Tissue, January 2011 (100-word prose poem/zombie-oriented domestic comedy)

• “Pisser” in Necrotic Tissue, October 2009 (100-word prose poem/unfortunate metamorphosis)

• “Bent” in AlienSkin, June/July 2009 (paranormal romance gone awry)

• “A Public Relations Nightmare” in Necrotic Tissue, January 2009  (100-word prose poem / economic impact of the zombie apocalypse)

• “Baptist” (Full-length Musical/A Singing, Dancing Beheaded Prophet), won the Christians in Theatre Arts National Playwriting Contest in 1997 and was given a full production at Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor, MI in November, 2008.
— Equal parts Oscar Wilde’s Salomé and Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle with a dollop of Grand Guignol late in Act Two.

• “Local History” (Poem/Conjectures about a Lightly Haunted House) Old West Side News, May 2005

• “That Delicious Torture, Love” (One-Act Comedy/Lover’s Revenge) produced by Heartlande Theatre as part of Play-by-Play Festival in April, 1999

• “Two Coffees, Black” a one-act play was produced by Heartlande Theatre as part of Play-by-Play Festival and re-mounted as part of the Playscape 1997 Festival in June, 1997  (teen suicide and soda shops)

• “seconds” (Poem/The Brother of the Prodigal Son) in Christianity and Literature, 1995

• Safe Passage (One act drama/Father Abraham explains it all), commissioned for and produced at the conference “An Ethos of Compassion and the Integrity of Creation,” Toronto, ON, 1992.

• “Fixtures and the Box They Came In,” (Full-length drama/ Communication Technology vs. Communication), commission for and produced at the conference “The Sound of Silence,” Niagra-on-the-Lake, ON, commissioned for the ICS Family Conference
August 1990

Instructive Ambiguities: Brecht and Müller’s Experiments with Lehrstücke, Master’s Thesis. 1992. pp. 156 plus notes. Text available here.
— I remain proud of this bit of pious juvenalia, not just for the scholarship but also the weirdo typography of text, marginal gloss and footnote, an attempt at a dialoguic text. Dig particularly page 6!

• “Collection,” (one-act drama/garbage and redemption), first produced by Trinity House Theatre, Livonia, MI