Hello Stranger...

I write dark fiction fueled by personal details and distorted through the lens of an imperfect memory. I write horror, some of it real and recorded fact by fact.

My first novel, The Bella Vista Motel, is the story of a young, ambitious, New York hit man, sent out west to watch over his Mafia Boss's pet project – a motel just outside of Ozona, Texas. He learns how to manage the elements of a different sort of underworld as the motel's dark purpose is revealed.

Elsewhere on this site, you'll find excerpts from the first Bella Vista book – the prologue and some sample chapters – as well as a tour of the motel grounds.  I post original short stories set in the Bella Vista world as they emerge.  Check out: Roy’s New Eye.

Short on time?  Click on those Flash Fiction links over there for a quick fiction fix.  It's not all Bella Vista, but it's all short, unlike the personal essays I used to think were blog entries.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you decide to stay a while.

Pamila Payne