Dirty Rabbit Hole

The first draft of a book produces many wonderful ideas. It’s an exciting time because the writer is forging new ground as they do it. Sometimes those ideas are outrageous and don’t pan out because the characters that come from them produce structural conflicts in the story. When that happened to me while writing SEETHINGS, […]

Instructions on committing the perfect murder and how to hide a body.

What happened to SEETHINGS novel? Where did it go? Is it gone and lost forever? Mitchell Felding’s psychopathy takes another turn as the author explains how Mitchell studies victims using new techniques with old technology. We also examine the victim’s life much closer and find out why these women are chosen over others.

Listening remotely to laptop microphones is only part of Mitchell’s method of stalking victims. Once a target is located, he goes to her property and then places a stethoscope against her gas meter. It’s done to listen to the activity going on inside her home. It’s a dangerous move but a far more intimate act […]

Add creep into a narrative by resurrecting our ‘former virgin’. Let’s talk about restoring childhood innocence so it can be destroyed by a sexual psychopath at the height of coitus. Can it be done? This podcast isn’t for the faint of heart. Be warned! Warning labels are posted here and now.* *Do not venture past […]

Unspeakable things happen down here. Follow me into The Pit to see what’s not spoken.

Pillow talk revealed an interesting account of an incident that occurred between a woman and a man who went through a violent break up and divorce. It was a she-said story that changed each time she told it until the real truth trickled through her lies. The end has a doozy conclusion! If you believe […]

Do you like watching lightning? What about seeing thunderheads rising high into the atmosphere, growing, swelling with anticipation? Me too. That’s why I wrote it into SEETHINGS. Listen now.

Like sex, murder can be tender and emotional — for the victim AND the villain. Let’s get inside the heads of a couple who are about to engage in deadly coitus and find out what’s going on, the dark, Michael Forman way.

Nyctofiles love the night. Despite nature’s fear mechanism to keep them safe, nyctophiles prefer to give themselves over to those things in the dark that are unseen. This predator trusts nyctophiles to put blind trust in the darkness.

Every serial killer finds victims their own special way. This one hacks computers and switches on their microphones to find women making a ‘new start’ in life. Listen now.

Humans, like animals, perform roles of the hunter and the hunted. To a small bird, a larger one is a predator. For the larger, the other isn’t a victim but food. Each has a rightful need to exist.

A look at first kisses and the emotions surrounding them.

A woman hanged by her camera strap. One victim found by students lying in long grass and yet another discovered by a water storage facility. Apart from being female, each had little in common… except all three deaths occurred during nights of great thunderstorms.

Karma bites! That’s how it works! Don’t mess with karma! Karma is a perfect ending to what was a tragic injustice that came before it. What if our wish for an adversary to fall hard isn’t fulfilled and they end up living a long, fruitful life of happiness and peace instead? Listen now to see […]

Our dark fiction author takes a closer look at educator, couple’s counsellor and youth Pastor Tony Brindell. He’s a softly spoken, empathetic man who reaches out to the common-folk. Deep down, there are secret agendas behind his well-manufactured facade.

Linda has a another lover and we are about to find out who it is. Her secret second SIM card is the key to knowing her other life.

Michael is always looking for inspiration, drawing emotion from the natural world to pass on to his characters.

Michael talks about how he creates his special kind of monster using fear as a muse.

What inspires some authors to take their fiction down deadly paths?

Evil can’t be so unless there’s a little something that can save it from total oblivion. There’s a quiet sense that Hannibal Lecter is basically a nice guy wrapped in an evil, yet thin exterior. With hope and kindness, it’d fall away, he’d change and turn his back on all that which makes him who […]

Depressed? Anxious? Feel like you’re losing your goddam mind? This podcast explains why some us suffer from mental health issues while making poor choices in our partners and working lives. Situational dissociation, PTSD, cognitive dissonance – they’re all here. Find out how far you might have gone down an invisible rabbit hole by listening now!

Ever wish to see your favourite jerk get their just desserts and fall flat on their face? Today’s podcast contains an anecdote about karma that’ll leave a smile on yours and then spin your head. Just remember, this is a true story! It really happened the way it’s told! Karma kicked this jerk’s arse big […]

Charlene Foley’s near naked body was discovered in long grass by students from Meadowbrook College this morning during a group’s photo expedition.  

Are you child of the seventies? Wanna go back and re-live the days of hedonism? Need to take a peek at an era you’ve only read about? Do you like Flake chocolate bars? Listen now!

Need a lobotomy done on the cheap? Chic Chic Mental Asylum Guarantees quality, safe-ish service with a smile… more like a crooked grin. Here’s Michael testing out his many voices with a few special effects thrown into the deal!

Michael reveals prior experience in hacking cell-phone signals to listen to private conversations. It became inspiration to taking stalking one step further – remotely accessing and activating phone/laptop cameras and microphones. Listen now and peer into the secret lives of others.

This episode is about neo-noir fiction, the genre in which I write. There’s also a story about wind-pinching – a yachting term for those who sail too close to a breeze. This diversion has a purpose as it leads into revealing my second dark fiction novel, Waves of Darkness. Someone is about to go missing […]

Neo-noir erotica is edgier than it’s softer counterparts erotica and chick-lit. Happy ever-afters are not guaranteed but torment certainly is. It’s arousing and unsettling. The narrative rarely takes predictable paths.

Everyone remembers their first time. First kiss. First love. First ummm… Listen to this latest excerpt from Darkness Awakes now.

The best day of the week is Sunday. It’s a holy day. This is the day with a routine that hasn’t changed for years. It’s keeps us together while forcing us apart.

Tony and Mitchell have a heart to heart talk as Mitchell tries to explain the changes that has been going on inside his mind.

Tony Brindell, counselor and Pastor, finds himself in a desperate situation. Could this be the end of his time on earth or will Faith save the day?

The story continues from Tony Brindell’s viewpoint. He shows us what’s been happening and it starts when Mitchell presents him with an unusual object.

Clocks, calendars and shiny bicycle bells – a thunderstorm fetish and a lover named Nina. Listen to Michael read Darkness Awakes now.

Dark fiction author Michael Forman transcribes chapter two of Darkness Awakes to audio. Nina and Mitchell’s secret affair develops. {Warning: Explicit Content!}

Dark fiction author Michael Forman transcribes the prologue and the first chapter of Darkness Awakes to audio. Here it comes. The storm is on its way. {Warning: Explicit Content!}

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