Brian Rawlins

Two Scoops

When the man ran into Applebee's yelling “Help me, help me,” no one got up to help him, and Norman Fletcher just shoveled another spoonful of mashed potatoes in...

The Hayeater

I’m sitting in the Cadillac. The sun is rising over the motel, and just like he said, the steering wheel is ivory. I put his keys in the ignition, then stop to ...

The Knight and I

As soon as I hold the sword in my hands, I feel stronger than the jacked up Ford F150 that that dickhead Jasper parks up on his lawn, so strong that I swing the...
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Brian Rawlins

Brian Rawlins' short fiction has appeared in New World Quarterly, Maudlin House, Be About it Press, and a forthcoming piece in Flash Fiction Magazine. Brian is also a WGA screenwriter who co-wrote the thriller movie, Blumhouse’s UNSEEN, and sold a horror project to Paramount Pictures. Brian's work is driven by a fascination with guilt, trauma, power, and survival in contemporary America, often expressed through a darkly comic lens.