Stories
Maddy Stories
Maddy Chase is a young woman from New Mexico’s nearly barren bootheel region who moves to California’s Central Valley in her late teens to attend college. After the disappearance of her roommate, Maddy works with a bail enforcement agent named Desi and ultimately joins him in the bounty hunting trade. Like Desi, she works in and around Los Angeles County and the Mojave Desert.
Despite fugitives (and most others) underestimating Maddy due to her diminutive stature, she is smart, resourceful, and trusts her instincts in almost every situation. Most significantly, Maddy has a strong sense of justice, an unwavering moral compass, and would never intentionally let her friends or allies down.
"Clean on the Sixty" read
Published by Half and One, Apr. 2025
Maddy and Desi spend the day before Thanksgiving pursuing a trio of fugitives and contemplating life after they're done tracking knuckleheaded skips.
"Cold Smoke" read [pdf]
Published by Muleskinner Journal, Apr. 2025
After driving drunk and killing a woman’s family, a young man from an affluent background tries to avoid facing the consequences of his actions. Maddy attempts to capture him and encounters resistance from the fugitive’s family.
Other Stories
"Assassin as a Verb" (Mar. 2021), The Closed Eye Open, Issue III (read/support)
"Susceptible to Belief" (Dec. 2020, Bluing the Blade, Vol. 1, No. 1, Tempered Runes Press) read