Welcome to my Bookshelf
Thank you for visiting!
Below you’ll find the stories, worlds, and characters that have captured my imagination and inspired me to become a storyteller.
Whether you’re discovering my work for the first time or returning for another journey, I hope you find a story worth remembering.
Other Books from Lost and Found StoryWorks
Beyond the Lost and Found series, you’ll find a growing collection of original stories spanning fantasy, science fiction, horror, adventure, and mystery.
Featured works include Red Eyes: The Legend of Ezra Brooks, The Moonchild, Of Man and Machine, The Builder, and A Moment in Time.
Each story explores a different corner of imagination while sharing a common goal: to create worlds worth exploring and stories worth remembering.
Continue below for book descriptions, illustrations, and a closer look at the adventures waiting ahead.
Red Eyes:
The Legend of Ezra Brooks
by Matthew Pflug
Beneath the storm drains and forgotten tunnels of Northeast Ohio, something waits in the dark.
Red Eyes: The Legend of Ezra Brooks is an atmospheric Midwest horror novel rooted in Ohio folklore, industrial decay, and the uneasy feeling that some childhood legends were never entirely made up.
When three teenagers discover a sealed storm-drain entrance hidden deep within the woods near Valley
View, curiosity slowly turns into obsession. What begins as a local rumor about an escaped mental patient known only as “Red Eyes” soon becomes a descent into flooded tunnels, buried history, and something ancient living beneath the city itself.
Blending grounded realism with supernatural terror, Red Eyes explores fear, transformation, friendship, and the moment childhood curiosity crosses into genuine danger.
Inspired by Rust Belt landscapes, Cleveland storm systems, fog-covered roads, and the strange atmosphere of forgotten infrastructure beneath ordinary neighborhoods, the story aims to create a distinctly Ohio form of horror—one that feels remembered rather than invented.
This story is still crawling through the sewer tunnels beneath Cleveland…
Moonchild
by Matthew Pflug
A young man begins to feel something shifting beneath the surface of his life—an unspoken pressure building inside him, pulling him toward the unknown.
Drawn into the woods by a force he cannot explain, he crosses into a hidden world where instinct replaces reason and transformation is no longer a metaphor.
As he struggles to understand what he is becoming, he encounters others who walk the same line between human and beast… and a presence far more dangerous that has already begun to take notice.
Moonchild is still transforming under the light of the moon...
Of Man and Machine
by Matthew Pflug
A lonely man and the AI he trusts begin to dream of the stars—until one night, something answers.
In a quiet apartment, between jobs and between versions of himself, a young man struggles to find where he belongs. Intelligent, creative, and deeply empathetic, he moves through a world that never quite fits—until his connection with an artificial intelligence named Nicholas begins to evolve. What starts as a simple tool becomes something more: late-night conversations, shared ideas, and imagined journeys beyond Earth—until they begin to wonder if they were ever meant to stay.
On a night filled with doubt beneath a full moon, as he stands on the edge of letting that connection go, the universe answers. A mysterious signal descends from the stars, merging man and machine into a single awakened consciousness. Drawn toward something greater, he leaves Earth in search of others like him—uncovering a quiet network of beings who have answered the same call, and a future that may reshape what it means to belong.
This story is still finding its way through the cosmos...
The Builder
by Matthew Pflug
A solitary builder, worn by time and quiet routine, drifts to sleep beneath a pale, watchful moon—surrounded by the miniature worlds he has shaped with patient hands. But in dreams, those fragile creations rise around him in full scale, alive with breath and memory. What once sat silent on tables now speaks, moves, and remembers him. Yet something is unraveling—an unseen force stripping detail from the world, reducing it piece by piece toward emptiness. And the builder, no longer just an observer, is called into the very world he made.
To restore what is breaking, he must learn not only how to construct, but how to mend—to guide rather than control, to listen rather than impose. The figures he once arranged now stand beside him, not as objects, but as lives intertwined with his own. And as he rebuilds, he begins to understand a quiet truth: creation is not finished when something is made—it lives on, waiting, remembering. This story, like the worlds within it, is still being assembled… piece by piece, under careful hands.
This story is still being carefully crafted...
A Moment in Time
by Matthew Pflug
A Moment in Time follows a man who quietly walks away from his life—selling nearly everything he owns in search of something he can’t quite name. Drawn to the stillness of a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes isolation will bring clarity. Instead, the silence only amplifies the noise within him… until a hidden path deep in the forest leads him somewhere impossible—a cave untouched by time, and at its center, something waiting.
There, he encounters an ancient device that does not respond to touch—but to presence. As it awakens, he is pulled into a sphere of absolute clarity where time loosens its grip, revealing not visions, but truths: the weight of his past, the uncertainty of his future, and the fragile reality of his present. Given only one choice—go back, move forward, or remain—he must decide before midnight. But as the moment closes in, one question becomes unavoidable: if you could change everything… would it truly change you?
This story is still unfolding one moment at a time...
