January 2011.
Blood Ties / Final Cut: A Split Novella by Tim Wohlforth / J. Vandersteen.  Read it here as a .pdf!

November 2010.
Platypus Society at the University of Chicago hosted the public forum, Rethinking the New Left, moderated by Spencer A. Leonard. The panel consisted of Osha Neumann, a former member of the New York anarchist group in the 1960s, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers; Mark Rudd, former member and national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and later a member of the Weather Underground; Tim Wohlforth, founder and national secretary of the Young Socialist Alliance in 1959; and Alan Spector, who was a full-time organizer for SDS for more than five years in the 1960s. The forum was held on November 9, 2010. Here's a transcript of Rethinking the New Left and an audiofile of the session.

February 2010.
The Seven Rays, Wohlforth's story about cults and crime set primarily on California's Central Coast, is now up at Mysterical-e

Allen Trimble, a freshman at Baxter University in Ohio, enters the Yellow Deli to get a bite to eat. He does not come out. When his sister Marilyn and girlfriend Barbara investigate they discover that the Yellow Deli is the front for a religious cult called The Church of the Seven Rays. Barbara decides to join the cult in an effort to save Allen from The Messenger, a huge man with a spider web tattooed on his head and neck. Each day she reports back to Marilyn.

One day she does not. Marilyn goes to the Yellow Deli. It has disappeared. She seeks the help of Scott Harris who lives on a houseboat in Sausalito, California. Born and brought up in a cult, he escaped to become a cult exit counselor. The trail leads them to a theosophic community on the Central Coast of California and a confrontation with The Messenger.

January 2010.
The Pink Tarantula, a Crip & Henrietta tale set in Huntington Beach will be  published in Plots With Guns in January.

A dark blue Toyota low-riding rice burner, windows tinted black, pulled into an angle slot between a Mercedes and a Lexus SUV. On Main, three blocks up from the pier. Seated in the front seat was a tall muscular man, around 35, with dirty blond hair, wearing mirror sunglasses. He waited and checked out the scene. No one on the sidewalk. No traffic on the street.The man stepped out into the blazing sun. His face had the kind of burnt tan that marked him as a local. A surfer or a lifeguard. There were hundreds like him in Huntington Beach. He reached inside the trunk, pulled out a black ski mask and put it over his head. Then he grabbed a double-barreled 12-gauge shotgun and closed the trunk.The blond man walked towards a store with a sign hanging over the door - “Pink Tarantula – Coiffeur.”

The masked man fired one round of buckshot directly into the head of the proprietor. Pieces of flesh and dyed red hair soaked in blood, spattered the walls, ceilings, and the young woman in the chair. In less than a second a place of extravagant beauty was transformed into a macabre scene of carnage.

June 2008.
Hardcore Hardboiled, a collection of neo-noir fiction from Thuglit, a trendsetting ezine edited by Todd Robinson, has just been published by Kensington Books. The collection includes Juanita by Tim Wohlforth.

Juanita awakens naked in a pool of sweat. She staggers out of bed, throws on a threadbare pink robe, shoves her stubby toes into her bunny rabbit slippers, and heads downstairs. She discovers her husband, Albert, lying on the floor with a gaping hole in his chest. “Shit,” she shouts, “somebody finally got the bastard. Calls for a drink.”

“If you’re man enough,” Otto Penzler says in his introduction, “you’ll love this book. If you’re not, give it to your girlfriend. If she accepts it and enjoys it, never turn your back on her.”

The book is available as a quality paperback at local bookstores and on Amazon for $14.00.

May 2008.
Two of my short stories are now available in audio at a new site: www.sniplits.com. This site features a variety of short stories from different genres in MP-3 format. This means you can download them to your iPod or play them on your computer. The stories are sold, like songs, for $.88 each. Check the stories out. I would love to hear your reaction. Spread the word about this new outlet for short stories.

L'il Joe's Blues. Set back in the time when rock & roll was born while the blues still survive, a college boy confronts a killer while L'il Joe plays on and on....

Killer Fog. Jack London Square is shrouded in a thick suffocating fog the night PI Jim Wolf agrees to protect a young woman who has the largest deep brown eyes he has ever seen...