The Utopian / Dystopian Compass

As published in The Juice and Other Stories. Photo by Bakr Magrabi on Pexels.com The world was heading due south, and there wasn’t a thing else I could have done about it. I get that my place in history will be as a fool, a mass-murderer, and a psychopath. I’m leaving this tome because someone...

“Bunny” a Short Story.

I have always been different. While it would be easy for me to attribute my eccentricities to my having been designed and hand-built by my maker, Bum Ting, himself quite the eccentric, the truth is that I am not just “droid” odd. Even other artificial units look at me with some degree of wariness. It...

The Button Collector – FREE!

For those looking for something to read, but who are on a limited budget, I am making one of my short stories, "The Button Collector," free for all. It is one of the lead stories in my anthology, Stories In Analog, available from Amazon. "The Button Collector" is a short story about Moshe Zacharias, an...

Excerpt – WIP #7 from a Collection of Short Fiction

I am working on a short fiction collection that gives canon-level stories to accompany my (at least 10-book) future fiction collection. This is an excerpt from a novelette called The Dragons of Koet'sö. I've also penned a novella and one short story for the collection, so I'm making good progress. Not sure of the order...

Selina Makes a Donation – From “The Holy Mother of Selina Sky”

Below is an excerpt from my personal favorite story, a novelette called "The Holy Mother of Selina Sky." It is about a little girl who may or may not be touched by the Divine. I hope you enjoy it. On my next day off, we were back in the art district. I tried not to...

When Women Wore Shoes

So, I wrote another novelette. It starts like this: Where I come from, women often wore shoes, which, to the best of my knowledge, never caused anyone dismay, in and of itself. Irina liked shoes more than most, which again, was not a problem per se. The potential for problems would have arisen only on...

Fool O’Clock – Part 2

Part 1 is here. When I get to the office, the Director is annoyed that I did an unauthorized handle on my own. She doesn’t care that the fool got dealt, but the clean up with the metro cops meant I was late to another sector meeting. The woman lives for deskwork and can’t for...

Fool O’Clock – Part 1

“Oh shit, it’s Fool o’clock.” “Wha’?” The grumble next to me is the wife – likely the co-conspirator who turned the damned alarm off. It’s on her side of the bed, per her demand, after I broke my hand trying to break the last one. “I said, ‘It’s Fool o’clock.’ I’m supposed to be in...

Beyonder, An Excerpt

So, I'm back to selling books. Long story short, I pulled all of my books from sale a few years back because although they were well-received with good reviews, 1) I didn't have any time to market them, and sales had dwindled to nothing and 2) My writing style and focus changed. Fast-forward to early...

A Girl Named Serenity Sea

Here's an excerpt from the story, "A Girl Named Serenity Sea," part of my upcoming short fiction collection entitled Beyonder and Other Tales, to be published by Panthera Press  in early 2018. Serenity Sea was born in a parking lot near Lagoon Creek Picnic Ground in Klamath, California, in the back of a poorly restored...