* Two Urban Fairy Tale Novellas *
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What the Faeries Left Behind![]() Abigail Watson is having a tough day in a hard week in a rotten month, and don’t even get her started on the year. Until that night when something wonderfully impossible shows up at her door. What The Faeries Left Behind is an urban fairy tale ‘antidote’ to those times when the dullness and drudgery of grown-up life seems inescapable, and the misconception that wonder and play are just for kids. Get the antidote! |
Defense Mechanisms![]() What if your deja vu was really flashes of a life running parallel to your own? An imaginative child, Janey left childhood far behind as soon as older children and adults began to tease her for it, much to the disappointment of her younger brother. On her thirtieth birthday, the first Pulse hits and drives them to seek shelter at his favorite hangout – a one-of-a-kind indoor playland for grown-ups called the Imaginarium. When the place is attacked by urban looters, she becomes an unwilling 'defender of imagination.' |
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* Coming Soon *
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Sleepwaking![]() A modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass for grown-ups of all ages. Where Wonderland is set in an urbanized version of one of my favorite places - the McMenamin's Edgefield in Troutdale, OR. Warning: contains nonsense verse! (draft cover) |
Night of the Victorian Dead![]() Will be published by Asset Creative House in 2018!
Downton Abbey invaded by Night of the Living Dead. Like Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, but a completely original story. The unwitting attendees of a country ball are all too busy striving to hide secrets and make matches to see what’s going on around them until it’s almost too late! The first book in a trilogy. |
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2013 NIWA Anthology

On a dusty desert road, a man offers the devil a deal. In the confines of a lab, a young woman faces her demons in virtual reality. Two interplanetary art dealers get more than they bargained for when hired guns try to stop them from selling a valuable piece. When a monster comes to town, a man must unleash the monster under his own skin.
In thirteen short stories, the authors of the Northwest Independent Writers Association explore the strange side of fiction and take readers to unexpected destinations.
In thirteen short stories, the authors of the Northwest Independent Writers Association explore the strange side of fiction and take readers to unexpected destinations.

The 2014 Northwest Independent Writers Association anthology
contains my short story, When Drake Met Thalise,
a fun twist on the sword and sorcery tale of a thief and a dragon.
WRITERPUNK'S Poe Goes Punk Anthology

Merely This and Nothing More: Poe Goes Punk
A Writerpunk Anthology (2016)
contains my short story, Oddball
a Space 1899/Wild Wild West adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Angel of the Odd,' which means... if the Victorians had discovered space travel using the ether, and tested their first steam-powered space launch 'out west' in America
The very proper, pretentious young English gentleman convinced to test the space sling, despite a fear of heights and travel in general, is harangued by an otherworldly creature when he claims vigorously that he is not odd in any way, who determines to teach him a lesson.
2016 NIWA Anthology

ARTIFACT
contains
Suspended Animation
a science fiction story where the newest crew member, recently added by the Company to benefit crew morality and mental health, is considered an artifact of pre-space flight travel and dismissively called the 'cruise director.' But it might be her old-fashioned notions and unpopular protocols of fun and recreation that could save the ship from being taken over by a boarding party of unknown scavenger aliens.
WRITERPUNK'S English Class Goes Punk Anthology

English Class Goes Punk: What We've Unlearned
A Writerpunk anthology (2017)
contains my short fiction, Of Folly and Fallibility
A Space 1899/steampunk adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. Where the British Empire has expanded out into the inner solar system. On Venus as it might have been were it much as scientist/thinkers speculated at the time.
Where the main characters has, perhaps, read too many stories about pernicious aliens and their plots to take over humanity.