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Short Stories, Book Thoughts, and Essays
Short Stories of 2025:
To Protect - A Fantasy Short Story
To Write - A Science Fiction Short Story
The Devil of the River - A Sword and Sorcery Novelette
The Twist of a Rock - Sci-fi Flash Fiction
Two Lives - A Short Story
A Step Too Far - A Fantasy Short Story
Westward Run - A Tale of the West
Race Against the Future - A Sci Fi Short Story
A Flame Between Ages - A Fantasy Short Story
Time. Money. - Cyberpunk Flash Fiction
The Tower and the Test - A Fantasy Novelette
The Ghost in the Storm - A Science Fiction Short Story
A Black Stag - A Horror Short Story
The Angler - A Short Story of Cosmic Horror
Short Stories of 2024:
A Tale of Two Cocktails - A “Golden Age” Style Sci Fi Short Story
The Weight of it All - A Dark Sci Fi Short Story
Trappist-1 - A Sci Fi Flash Fiction Short Story
White Noise - A Dystopian Flash Fiction Short
New Shoes - A Short Story at the End of the World
The Tunnel - A Dark Short Story on the run from a monster
Raygun Meeting - A Sci Fi Short Story set in the world of A Tale of Two Cocktails
Raygun Meeting (The first draft) - My first attempt at the story above. Read more about it in the essay here
The Specter - A Spooky Short Story
The Ship - A Sci Fi Short Story
River Rats - A Short Story
The Flute Thief - A Fantasy Short Story set in the world of my novels.
A Night Over Breiar - A Fantasy Short Story set in the world of my novels.
Book Thoughts & Essays of 2025:
Enjoying the Journey - An Essay on The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Inspiration from the Sandbox - An Essay on Stellaris
An Image, Word, or Lyric - Where stories come from, an essay
An Hour For Life - An Essay on The Old Man and the Sea
Play in Your Room - An Essay on Robert Rodriguez and Art
One Year Here - An Essay on Writing in Public
Where are the Words? - An Essay on Storytelling
Winging it through Work - Writing Thoughts from Tolkien to Toriyama
Why does so much Happen on the Way to the Forum? - Book Thoughts on Ancient Rome and Emma Southon
Eulogy for the Surreal - Goodbye, David Lynch
Living in Dread - Thoughts on the Cosmic Horror Genre
Book Thoughts & Essays of 2024:
Another Turn, Another Turn - Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Work. Relax. Don't Think. - Zen in the Art of Writing By Ray Bradbury
A Question of Legacy - Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clark
A Journey In Character - The Stand by Stephen King
The Limits of Imagination - A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
Find Your Pulp - An Essay on the Pulpier side of Genre
I Miss Derry - It by Stephen King
The Normal in the Insane - The Fisherman by John Langan
A Journey to Horror - Book Thoughts on the Genre
No Automatons Here - A Favorite Essay of mine. On Writing.
The Lie to Ourselves - The Mist by Stephen King
The Gifts We Have - Flowers for Algernon
Blue Eyes, Crying on the Page - An Essay, Wheel of Time and Stormlight Archive
The Words of 2024 - An Essay on What I read and wrote in 2024
As always, thank you for reading anything I put out into the world. Let me know your favorites and least favorites, and what you want to see more of in the comments!