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Good writing not guaranteed. But at least it won’t be boring.
Hello Denizens,
Welcome aboard this magical place of latin script on planes of solid color! Beyond the dad jokes and meta jokes lies stories to awaken your imagination! This is a place filled with Science Fiction and Science Fantasy in bite size chunks to broaden your horizons.
Caution: Faith is a big part of my writing, but puritanism is not. I use coarse language and describe human nature in all of its darkness in my writing. I don’t pull my punches. At some point, you may likely read something that will offend your senses. For me, God’s goodness is best understood when contrasted with man’s fallen nature. I endeavor not to stoop to pornographic levels in my descriptions, but violence, addiction, harm, sexuality, and more often make appearances in my writing. You’ve been forewarned.
Current Work:
Devotions for Astronauts (Short Stories)
A monthly short Science Fiction or Science Fantasy story steeped in a Biblical moral. Might be based on a single verse of scripture. Might be based on a retelling of a parable. Might be a lesson from a Torah portion. Come by every so often shortly before Sabbath begins (nightfall CDT) on a release week to catch the latest entry.
The Deadwalker Saga (A PZS Novel Series)
After more than 25,000 generations living, fighting, and dying during The Ripple War, the battle has seen a stalemate the last millennia. But now the soul sphere is fracturing at an accelerating rate, only a hundred generations lie between what remains of civilization and the destruction of the entire universe. The empire of man is dying. It was never supposed to be this way. Holding the line is no longer good enough. Malevolents pour out of the voids at increasing rates, guaranteeing the deaths of the immortal souls. The black holes in real space grow by the day, guaranteeing the deaths of the bodies in real space that souls inhabit. In an attempt to save the empire of man and protect their souls, a small team will be sent to the farthest reaches, to the distant worlds, once known to the empire but forgotten due to war. They must perform the most dangerous deadwalks to transit the intervening real space being shredded by black holes. They must dodge malevolents in soul space that will kill their souls. There is little hope. There are no resources. The odds are long. And time has run out.
Upcoming Work:
Vulpinus Ex Machina (A PZS Novel Series)
In an alternative nested universe, in late 1970s northern Afghanistan, anthropomorphic foxes are the dominant form of life. And history, though similar, has taken a slightly different turn. U.S. Marine Sergeant Kasimir Knight pilots his dieselmech, a walking turbo-diesel powered tank. While on routine patrol with his unit, not far outside Kabul, they are fired upon by Soviet forces. After his entire unit is wiped out with few survivors remaining, Sergeant Knight is awarded and commended for his bravery and sent to a more elite unit. But time with them proves that not everything in the world fits with his naive idealistic understanding and he must deal with a crisis of morality as the world teeters on the brink of World War III.
Polyzygosis Sequence (A Novel Series)
—Mainline
It’s been nearly 100 years since the collapse of the Automated Life Monitoring System, the pinnacle of human achievement that ushered in a 700 year long utopia. After its collapse the world was filled with pointless in fighting, wars, power plays, resource hoarding, and all the other terrible things people did before the utopia. And then the nanovirus came infecting over 95% of the population, killing most outright, but turning the rest into cybernetic zombies, slaves the will of an unseen force. Those who survived learned to build cities in the open spaces between the old world cities, seal them off, filter the air, protect from the nanovirus. The world now sits in a perilous balance between the new world cities, filled with scavengers who keep society running and the skeletonized cyber armies that spend their time doing God-knows-what. Until one day a skeleton army moves on a new world settlement and destroys them entirely. Unheard of action brings about panic in the rest of the sane and known world as leaders of decentralized groups try to rally and figure out how to combat the new threat.
—Transit of Titan
The first faster-than-light (FTL) test ship makes it’s way out the region inhabited by Trans-Neptunian objects in our solar system. While passing by Titan, Saturn’s moon, the ship ShenZi performs a preliminary warm up of the Lensing Drive, the FTL drive that will allow the ship to travel great distance in zero time. But upon initial activation, something goes wrong and the ship falls into a gravity well, crashing the ship on Titan’s surface. While there, Emeth experiences time out of order and a second version of himself. Time is running out as the Lens Effect is so powerful it’s warping spacetime in the solar system endangering everyone back on Earth. As Emeth works to stabilize the experimental drive, the solution may lay outside the present, but only if he’s brave enough to face it.
Driven (A Memoir)
A painfully pretentious mea culpe set in my fictional universe containing nonfiction events charting my personal transformation from a horrific, terrible asshole of a human being into a slightly more tolerable, still somewhat assholish pretend fox (that’s still just a human being) but with some self confidence and wisdom (not much, but some). It inexplicably follows my obsession with cars, myself, my own internal thought process and emotions, and how I cope with things like cancer. (Spoiler alert: badly). For any future critics I may have that want to devalue and discredit me, this is a MUST read as it will give you all the ammo you could ever want!
Much, Much More…
On Offer:
Free-to-Everyone
—Devotions for Astronauts
DfA is a monthly short Science Fiction story steeped in a Biblical moral of some kind. Devotions stay up for three months free to read before being archived. (May be extended in the future, but never shortened.)
—News Updates
Everyone gets the chance to read about what I’m working on and the status of projects. This includes updates on when completed works will be available for purchase. Even if you don’t support me monthly, you’ll still have an opportunity to read my work.
—Occasional Previews
Sometimes I’ll share an entire episode/chapter for your reading pleasure.
$5/mo or $50/year
—Episodic Writing
This is the meat and potatoes of what will be finished novels and short stories. Read the work as I develop it, a scene or two at a time. Follow along with the current novel or series I’m working on. This even allows you to provide feedback and help shape some of what will happen in the stories you read.
—Rewrites, Edits, Complete Compilations
You’ll get first access to the revised episodic writing and complete collections that comprise chapters or entire complete stories/novels.
$100/year
—Daily Dabble
Unedited, unrefined, raw word vomit. You literally get to read my daily writing exercise. Not for the faint of heart as you get to see what most people never see from accomplished writers: lots and lots of bad or bizarre or insane writing. Writing filled with self doubt, confusion, contradiction, and just generally bad grammar, punctuation, and everything else. But you get to see a significant amount of the process from beginning to end.
—Writer’s Diary
Access to my personal thoughts and feelings about writing as I’m working my way through the process. Feel free to comment. Reminder: also not for the feint of heart.
—Scraps
Bits and pieces of writing from the past. Documenting different stages of life and writing ability. Guaranteed to be bad, but likely not boring. Feel free to laugh at my former self and his inability to put words together in useful ways.
Disclosures: This work is entirely my own and made without the use of aids or generators. The thumbnail for this post was generated using AI.
Feedback on all work welcome and encouraged, especially negative feedback as it helps me improve. Thanks for taking the time to read my work. Love you all.
About time you started writing. This will be successful!
Very engaging and peeked my interest!