As Halloween creeps up on us, all of October’s Fractured Fragment Fridays will promote stories from my themed collection WEIRD, But not TOO Scary Tales. This Fractured Fragment Friday, I offer an Edgar Alan Poe inspired tale. “A Dish Best Served” started simply with a desire to use an x-course meal as the vehicle for … Continue reading
As Halloween creeps up on us, all of October’s Fractured Fragment Fridays will promote stories from my themed collection WEIRD, But not TOO Scary Tales. “Breathing is Overrated” earned me my second of four Honorable Mentions in the Writers of the Future contest. It started when someone I know was having breathing problems, and the … Continue reading
“Cannabis alienus ‘alien dope’” originated from something that really happened to me (no, not the alien slug.) My family moved out of state before my junior year of high school, and two years later (after graduation) I made a trip back to what used to be home, to try reconnecting with people I knew. Aside … Continue reading
“The Sheila Wulf Chitinoid Sessions” is NOT about problems with space crabs. I just wanted to play with the mistake we make about assuming that other life (and people) have to be the same as us, looking and behaving like something familiar to us instead of something alien. And if we can have tools and … Continue reading
This Fractured Fragment Friday, I offer an Edgar Alan Poe inspired tale. “A Dish Best Served” started simply with a desire to use an x-course meal as the vehicle for a story. I started writing with the critic vs. chef theme, and the rest of the story came out of the pen on its own … Continue reading
Before I return to cycling through all my short fictions in order of publication, I’m going to spend a little time on my two series. This week, we begin with “Purr Mission,” the first story of my Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire series. So – cats. Why did I decide to write a story … Continue reading
My next collection is set up and ready for preorders. Close Encounters of the Weird Kind is a collection of twenty-one speculative fictions. Within thesepages are twenty-one short fictions involving meetings between beings who refer to each other as alien. What were they thinking? Whether you’ve suffered through your own invasion, or experienced a probing … Continue reading
Sometimes I think I must be some sort of snob tourist. I’ve talked about wanting to go to Mars for most of my life. On occasion, I’ve been asked (or asked myself – I’m not sure which. Does it matter?) whether I’d like to take a ride on the shuttle (yes, I know they’re not … Continue reading
After I finished listening to Fool Moon, I decided to give a listen to what I believe was an Audible. The Space Race, narrated by Kate Mulgrew, was a combination of the history of the space race between the United States and the old U.S.S.R., the combined activities since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, … Continue reading
on this, the release Day of Weird, But Not TOO Scary Tales That’s right – this is the release day for Weird, But Not TOO Scary Tales, my latest – and first themed – collection, containing 21 short fictions. Within these pages you will find ghosts, undead, demons, assassins, villains, aliens, and the mostly normal … Continue reading
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