Moon Garden is a collection of fanciful and speculative stories that live somewhere between science fiction and fantasy. Grave Concerns explores the darker side of life and the human psyche. Download them both to your Kindle Library for free January 25th! Continue reading “Moon Garden” and “Grave Concerns” both free today
Eccentric tech mogul and cult leader Richard Kryuss has developed a system of storing and transmitting data organically, connected by trees containing within their DNA the entirety of recorded human knowledge. Could his Terrestrially Regenerative Enhanced Extranet, or T.R.E.E., be a boon to mankind, or will it spell doom for the human race? Spanning over 200,000 years of post-Earth human history, Effugium repeatedly defies the … Continue reading EFFUGIUM now available for purchase
Effugium, which is Latin for “escape,” was the name of a space vessel constructed in the early years of the twenty-first century by eccentric tech mogul and cult leader Richard “The Prophet” Kryuss, founder of Krytech Industries. After a mysterious force announced its intent to remove all human life from Earth within ten years’ time, Kryuss funded the Effugium project with his own money, for … Continue reading My escape, your escape
Last year I was going through some boxes of old toys that I’d held on to since the ’80s, with the intention of selling them. They’d been taking up a lot of space for many years, and I wanted them gone. I needed the money, first of all, and in addition to that, I didn’t want to be constantly reminded of happier days that are … Continue reading Childish Things
30 years ago, at the age of 13, I sat down in a theater so packed with people waiting to see the new Batman movie that I had to sit apart from my parents on the other side of the auditorium. Precious few empty seats remained, and expecting to find three right next to each other turned out to be wishful thinking. I’d grown up … Continue reading Batman(1989)
For decades, I carried with me a hazy memory of visiting a forest full of dinosaur statues at a very early age. I wasn’t entirely sure it wasn’t a dream until one day it occurred to me to look it up. Sure enough, the Dinosaur Gardens in Ossineke, Michigan is a real place that’s still in operation. I must’ve been four or five when we … Continue reading Dinosaur Dreams
When I was fourteen, my mom dragged my younger sister and I to JC Penney for our annual wardrobe update. As we breezed through the mall, we passed an arcade, its electronic symphony of light and sound beckoning me… “Your father didn’t pull extra shifts at the warehouse last year to buy y’all a Super Nintendo Genesis for Christmas so that we could bring you … Continue reading “Other”
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I loved the Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia as a kid. The following is something I wrote around the age of nine. The premise: What if Lucy had just said “Nah?” That’s literally all the background info I can give you on this. Continue reading Childhood Writings: “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” alternate ending.
