Welcome to my homepage.

I work at Gateway Regional High School, where I teach English.

I attend the Audubon United Methodist Church and work in youth ministry with The Midwinter Advance.

Look for my short story Czesko appearing in the March issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  Read  my tongue-in-cheek interview with the Slush God John Joseph Abrams.  There was also a very favorable review of the whole issue, with Czesko listed among the stories deemed "Very Good," as well as a gushing review in Tangent Online, where critic Elizabeth A. Allen had this to say:

"Back to the subjects of life, death, and the weirdness in between with Ef Deal’s short, sparkling gem “Czesko.” Like David Gerrold’s tour-de-force novelette “thirteen o’clock,” which appeared in last month’s F&SF, “Czesko” is driven by its urgent, casual, and utterly unique narrative voice. In this case, it’s a small-time drug dealer who must figure out how to kill his already-dead friend. The fantastical blurring of life and death seems entirely believable when told in the unintentionally deadpan (pun intended) tone of a blue-collar criminal. Hearkening back to all those folk tales about deals with the Devil, Deal puts a modern, intelligent, compulsively readable spin on the story with an exquisitely mordant punchline for an ending."

Wow!

Meanwhile, you can read an old story of mine, Blood Calls to Blood, online at the Fortean Bureau.

And you can enjoy the online adventures of Gwynna Lionshadow in a collaborative story online called The Red Sign of the Old Hole.