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The Privateers of Mars -- Review

So, with the shine well and truly off of Joss Whedon these days – No, this isn’t about to turn into...

Life Intervenes

So, I meant to finish and publish a follow up to Onyx & Alabaster for last month's story post. That didn't pan out. Life intervenes. So, I pulled a short story out of the vault -- Long, Slow Da...

Long, Slow Dark

When he was eighteen, Darren Young left home. He did not say goodbye, not to his parents or his sisters or even to Patty Williams, who said that she loved him. He didn’t believe that she loved hi...

The High Ground - A Samuel Branch Short Story

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Arjun gazed at me with unfocused eyes, his face as blank as pristine printer paper. I’d hate to play poker with man. He had no tells. That explains why I barely managed t...

Onyx and Alabaster

(Note: this version of the story is a first draft. I'll post a more refined version later.)

It was pain that brought Alabaster back to consciousness. Most people would have considered that a ...

Melancholy and Firefly

Melancholy. It’s not the first word that springs to mind for most people when you mention science fiction. Yet, it’s the first thing that springs to mind for me when the subject of...

Night of the Rithin

I woke up to the sight of a purda perched on my chest. I shouted something inarticulate and the lizard scampered away to a nearby rock. It turned and gave me what might have been...

Check Out My Interview

We talk about a bunch of stuff, including my most recent novel, The Midnight Ground.

2020-06-06 22:54:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Covid, Riots, and Escapist Fiction

I’ve been thinking lately about the escapist nature of reading fiction. As a writer who specializes in urban fantasy, I’m more or less in the business of escapist fiction. It...

The Stone Forest

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They were waiting in the silence and darkness. He felt their cold, smooth lifelessness and thought of gargoyles, although they were not gargoyles. Gargoyles, at least, we...