PRL Serials

  • Silas in Hell Issue 4. Crazed and Confused (Part 2)

    I asked him if he was the reason I did bad things, like the cartoons of the angel and the demon on the character’s shoulders trying to win his soul to their team. You gonna make me do bad in my life?, I asked him. Eh, I don’t know., he said like he was a…

  • The Catawba Chief’s Tree

    According to legend, the indian chief was over seven feet tall and ruled a tribe of Catawbas who had lived in what is now known as Ladoga, NC. The Chief commanded respect, even from settlers who mostly avoided his people, who the settlers feared as murderous giants. They proved to be a very necessary ally…

  • Silas in Hell Issue 3. Crazed and Confused (Part 1)

    Silas is not always in hell, sometimes he is happy with his family. Usually on holidays, from October through the New Year, his daughters and his wife don’t annoy him as much and they find themselves doing activities together that his daughters refused other times. For Halloween every year, the family has a party and…

  • Silas in Hell Issue 2. Oedipus Rex

    “Come here, don’t be afraid. I won’t hurt you, I can’t hurt you. Would I like to? That is a complex question. I have been hurting souls like you for aeons, it is my nature. Like the things with wings that fly, they have them for that reason.” The man with the horns of a…

  • Old Man Young and the Bronx Avenger Issue 3

    The Avenger Previously on Old Man Young; Detective Paul Young doesn’t have anything these days but his job. It’s lucky for him that he’s very good at it, but maybe it isn’t at all about luck. Maybe over the long years working for the Knoxville, TN Police Department he has honed his instincts and that…

  • 12. In the Park – from Rebel Max’s Journal 1

    I took my son to the park in northeast Ladoga this past weekend. My parents met us there and we ate Bojangles on the metal bleachers at the basketball courts after we ran around for a while. Mary was meeting with a study group for her anatomy class that she was taking at CPCC and…

  • Silas in Hell Issue 1

    Silas is a man of the world. Money is the most important thing to him because it is the only way to secure peace of mind. When his wife whines to him about the problems with their mansion-sized home, or about the troubles of their two teenage daughters, he throws money at her to shut…

  • Rebel Max in the 21st and Half Century – Issue 2 –

    Early on a cold September morning in the Appalachian mountains, Rebel Max will stand eyes closed, feeling the sunlight warming his face. It will be the first time that Max has seen the sun in weeks;  The high, wooden walls of the fortified Appalachian State University campus, that is reinforced by thick sheets of steel,…

  • 11. The Reverend Dr. vs Job – from Rebel Max’s Journal

    I don’t consider myself to be a dreamer, or particularly imaginative. I like to stick to facts when I’m able. It annoys me when my boss says things to me about my value, that I am too expensive for menial work, like processing new clients. To me that is a flight of his imagination; that…

  • Why I Quit Smoking Marijuana, With Maps – from Rebel Max’s Journal 1

    “Is it true?” Mary was standing in the doorway of our bedroom and I was lying in bed trying to drown out the sound of her question that got louder every time she repeated it. “Maxwell, is it true?” I was embarrassed to tell her the truth; yes, I smoke marijuana with Danny every time…