Richard Schreck

My novel in progress 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
Privacy (forthcoming in The Hyacinth Review)
Recognition (forthcoming in Half and One)
At Union Station (forthcoming in Macrame
Literary Journal)
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 (in Blue Lake Review)
The Metro (in The River)
Just in Case (in Dark Winter)
Hazard at Southwark (in The Orange Rose)

Background photo by Jared Arango on Unsplash





