Richard Schreck

My long-term project is a literary thriller. Brain Game takes place in Baltimore and New Orleans in the years following Katrina, a fictional world I began to develop while living on the Gulf Coast. Excerpts have appeared in Gargoyle and The Mailer Review. I began writing short stories as a way to write better narrative arcs, and characters from the novel appear in short form literary fiction in several magazines.
When former intelligence analyst Gil Willis finds himself by the side of a highway in northern Mississippi next to an old man in a good suit, he begins a journey that will pull him back into a life he believed he had left behind.
SHORT FICTION
featuring the Brain Game characters
West Ash and Dunn (in Backchannels)
Can You See Me? (in Gypsophila)
Request (in The Mailer Review)
In the Graveyard Tent (in The Loch Raven Review)
Baker's Wall (in The Write Launch)
Petty Theft (in Mollusk Lit)
Confidante (in Gargoyle)
Schrödinger’s Cat (in Sophon Lit)
Steelie (in The Razor)
Las Meninas (in Litbreak)
Cold (in ARTWIFE)
Civil Procedure (forthcoming in Blue Lake Review)
CURRENTLY READING
Lots of lit mags!
"softie" by Megan Howell
Background photo by Jared Arango on Unsplash