I am currently advancing each of these stories. I work continuously to edit the manuscripts, work rewrites or start a fresh chapter. I’m always striving to make these the best tales I can tell.

What begins as an unusual death in the depths of a city expands to a sinister threat haunting the Empire that rules over the grand metropolis at the edge of the known world.
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Rule, book one of the Shattered Gods, is a tale of two very different parties from opposite ends of the world seeking to survive their journey under the terrifying and deadly castles in the sky. More

A traveler of the stars wakes to find himself marooned on a frozen world. Everything is alien. With only his assistant AI and what he can salvage to aid him, he seeks to learn all he can of this unexpected place. More

On the far western frontier of the Forty Kingdoms sits the colossal fortress of Lone Gap. The massive rampart is the last bulwark against a wilderness filled with the dreaded Dogmen. More

These are projects that I plan to take further but are in the earliest stages. I write a few passages here and there and jot down a thing or two in the outline. However these works are mostly on the back burner.

In Book One, The Reluctant Instructor, an unlikely group of middleschoolers awake together in a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares. After reluctantly agreeing they share this connection, the group embarks on an adventure to understand this place known as the Once Lit. After each miraculous dream they are spat into their modern lives. School, friends and family divide them. As sleep beckons they are forced to together. The frights and challenges of Once Lit life bind them.  Yet they soon realize their need for information and teaching of this new realm they have become a part of. Applicants are slim, in truth only one exists and enlisting him provides a new challenge. While our fledgling cohort works at learning life in two realms; forces older and darker than memory, work in the deepest shadows of the Once Lit to destroy them.

Generations have passed since the ‘Saints’, whom all human life is descended, last drew breath. They developed ways to alter and tame the toxic plants and creatures of this new world. How they came to the colonize this inhospitable place and why are lost to antiquity. Those who dwell in modern times have learned to harness power from this world their ancestors sought only to tame.  But there is no end to the challenges. Those empowered are cursed, eventually turning on their own. The native peoples, after several losing wars, hide in the forests, waiting for revenge. And the great majestic god creatures that live eternally in this strange world march over the land, to devastation and rebirth.

In the far future humanity  has harnessed the power of artificial singularities to travel at relativistic speeds. A technological feat that has allowed mankind dominion of the solar system. No world escapes notice, serviced to the growing expanse of the human race. With the conquest of the solar system complete mankind embarks on becoming a new level of civilization. Bigger and bolder uses of this technology are on the horizon, ever pressing humanity’s conquest of the stars. Yet in the routine lives of one crew the normal is suddenly upended. This crew, working with AIs not designed for new missions, must use this fantastic technology to save the rest of us from the very same tech gone unimaginably wrong.

Here are some recent examples of writing I’ve done for a few sites. If you have something specific in mind I can provide content samples upon request.

Here lies what didn’t fit above.

A collection of short and sweet, humorous texts.

A brief murder mystery told nearly entirely in dialogue.

My fond recollections of TV while living on a hill in the middle of a beautiful nowhere.