Short Story is Finalist for Pushcart Prize

Grateful that the great folks at FreedomFiction nominated my short story, Newberry's Greatest Challenge,  for the prestigious Pushcart Award Prize. Honored to be among this panoply of great scribes. Good luck to all of us! :) 

RELEASE DATE: David Rose & the Days of Awe

TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING, the David Rose series has reached its climax. Inspired by the relationship between my OWN David and Rachel, the series represents a promise I made to them those many years ago. Life happens, roadblocks happen, but on my birthday this summer, as it so happened, I brought this labor of love to its hopefully worthy end. 

Grateful to Evolved Publishing for all their support, and to YOU for yours, which I shall humbly implore once again: we have a release date of Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, and I will be ever so grateful now and when the day comes, if you would be so kind as to help spread the word.

Thank you, as ever, my friends. 

David Rose and the Days of Awe 

Anthology Publication

Honored to have my futuristic tale, Undiscovered Country, included in this great anthology from Inkd Press.

Barnes & Noble has the paperback price wrong @ $26.99, but the correction is in to drop to $22.99

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beyond-2026-billy-todd/1151131940?ean=9798235542846

Digital available too. Thanks for your support!

https://books2read.com/u/boG2WV

Short story: Devil & the Blue Ghosts

 Was on my front porch some dozen years ago, watching my kids catch fireflies on a languid summer eve, when I remembered hearing once about blue fireflies, and so I looked them up, and a story was born. Grateful to the wonderful folks at Piker Press. Hope you enjoy.~

https://www.pikerpress.com/article/12093/devil-and-the-blue-ghosts

In A Flash

 Had a quirky FF piece published: hope you enjoy it! Was inspired by the Phillip Pullman quote: “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” 

Save Room For Epilogue | Bright Flash Literary Review 

Editor's Choice: Newberry's Greatest Challenge(Otherwise Known as The Unhappy Tale of Benjamin Gray)

Grateful to the team at Freedom Fiction Journal for publishing my short story: Newberry's Greatest Challenge(Otherwise Known as The Unhappy Tale of Benjamin Gray). Honored that it was selected for the esteemed Editor's Choice section.

Hope you enjoy!

https://www.freedomfiction.com/2025/12/newberrys-greatest-challenge-by-daryl-rothman/

Sebastian Marlow: Latest Short Story Publication

Big thanks to David & team over at short-story.me, for publishing my very short story, a bit of crime noir, Sebastian Marlow. 

It was actually inspired by this scene from Lolita, and a tour de force performance by Peter Sellers.

Hope you enjoy!