Firestarter: The Ember’s Gaze
The humid air hung heavy in the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve, thick with the scent of cypress and the promise of rain. Monty, ever the keen-eyed naturalist, pushed aside a curtain…
Year: 2025
The Ghost in the Gigabit: Monty and the Stranahan House Signal
Monty Tiberius Beauregard-Hayes didn’t usually take cases involving garden-variety ghosts. But the call from the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society was too specific to ignore: the city’s oldest surviving structure, the…
Booked Solid with the Bizarre: Monty and the Miami Book Fair
Monty Tiberius Beauregard-Hayes had promised himself a day of culture, not cryptids. He was at the Miami Book Fair International, enjoying the relative sanity of literary discourse, when the familiar…
The Grove’s Grief: Monty and the Silent Orchard Blight
Back on the mainland, Monty Tiberius Beauregard-Hayes traded the salt spray of Key West for the sticky heat and pervasive sweetness of Central Florida’s citrus country. He had received a…
The Coral’s Echo: Monty’s Call to Action and the Siren’s Song
Monty Tiberius Beauregard-Hayes returned from his nighttime excursion with Dr. Elena Vargas, his mind reeling. The mermaid’s lament, so full of sorrow and raw power, had done more than just…
Monty and the Mermaid’s Lament: A Key West Mystery
After the surreal encounters in the Everglades and a bizarre run-in with fairies at a Ren Faire, Monty Tiberius Beauregard-Hayes sought refuge in a place where the weirdness was not…
Fae in the Faire: Monty’s Renaissance Run-In
After the mind-bending discovery of the alien shrine beneath the Florida swamp, Monty Tiberius Beauregard-Hayes needed a break from the cosmic and the cryptid. He craved the mundane, the human,…
The Sinkhole’s Secret: Monty Finds an Ancient Alien Shrine in the Glades
The Everglades, Monty Tiberius Beauregard-Hayes had long since concluded, was a place where layers of reality peeled back and overlapped. It was a land of ancient secrets and modern absurdities,…
Monty’s Message in the Mangroves: A Paywalled Plea to a Hairy Influencer
Monty Tiberius Beauregard-Hayes, ever the strategist, hunched over his typewriter (yes, he still preferred the tactile clickety-clack), crafting his latest piece for the local paper. His goal was delicate: to…
Skunkape Streams Live: Monty and the Accidental Influencer
Back in the familiar, humid embrace of Fort Lauderdale, Monty Tiberius Beauregard-Hayes was attempting to catch up on his neglected email. Amongst the usual barrage of blurry Bigfoot photos and…