[5] The pair would collaborate on 10-minute operas at rock clubs around Los Angeles, where Smith would play many of the instruments and Zdunich would perform many of the acting roles.

The pair would expand one of their 10-minute operas, “The Necromerchant’s Debt", into a full-length version of the show titled Repo!

[6] According to Zdunich, the plight of one of Smith's friends, who was then undergoing bankruptcy, helped inspire the 10-minute opera.

[12] In 2022, Smith's collaborative story with Staci Layne Wilson titled 'Phantom/Fandom' was made into a movie called The Second Age of Aquarius.

[15] In 2021, Variety highlighted Smith's literary work featured in ‘Rock & Roll Nightmares: Gory Days’, a horror audiobook.