Bisbee

Coffee for Ghosts - On Kindle October 31, 2026

Every night for fifty years, he has poured coffee for the dead.

September 1969, Fire Support Base Buttons, Phuoc Long Province. A Douglas kid who expects nothing from anybody drinks his first canteen-cup coffee before patrol with Ed Martinez, a man who will not make it home. Then one night in 1974 he steps into a bar fight for a stranger, takes a knife in the ribs, and wakes in an abandoned smelter with somebody else’s blood in his throat.

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Coffee for Ghosts

20 chapters - his complete story

Coffee for Ghosts is his own account of the fifty years that follow: the fire years, the rules he makes so he can stay hidden, the lost fledglings who stumble through his town, the federal agent who keeps getting closer, and the row of mugs on his counter that grows every time somebody doesn’t come home.

About Coffee for Ghosts

At a glance

Genre: Sonoran Gothic: first-person war and vampire horror-noir novella
Themes: Grief carried for fifty years; debts to the dead; keeping the rules that keep you hidden; the strays nobody else will take
Tone: Blunt, gravel-voiced and darkly funny, with the grief underneath never said out loud.
Tropes: Vietnam veteran, origin story, reluctant protector, immortal witness, found family
Heat level: Implied only. Vampires in this world can’t have sex, so any spice stays off the page.
Where to start: Yes. It stands on its own and spoils nothing in the novels.
Length: 20 chapters, 27,037 words.
Content note: A first-person account of war, loss, and the long road home. Contains references to the Vietnam War, combat death, Agent Orange, suicide, overdose, and supernatural violence. Mature themes, restrained depiction.