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Tales from The New Universe: Gunny Homn

Happy Monday.

I wanted to share something different with you today.  It’s not Flash Fiction due to it’s length, but nor it is really a short story.  It’s something in-between.

It’s a bit of future-history from The New Universe (my own little sandbox of creative endeavors – everything I write exists in this little Universe I’ve created).  [...]

Excerpt from my novel

As you probably know by now, I’ve written a novel.  I’m working on the second draft right now.

The gist: young woman living her life like any other normal person, suddenly finds herself neck deep in a mess that involves magic and a whole list of other things she’s always been told aren’t real.

I decided I [...]

Catch up with Evermist!

So.  Chapter 16 of the WILDLY POPULAR WEB SERIAL Evermist hits the Internet today.  Are you excited?!

If you haven’t been reading it, I want you to know – you make me sad.  I mean, here I am, slaving over this hot laptop, day and night, sweat sometimes forming on my brow (not really, but my [...]

Get caught up on Evermist

Evermist is a new, serial science fiction piece being released as part of my, ‘Tales From The New Universe’ series. New episodes will be released every week over at the Evermist site! Don’t miss out on a single episode! Add it to your reader, bookmark it, hit ‘favorites’ – whatever you prefer, just don’t miss [...]

Flash Fiction: The Legend of Aoudjila

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Tales from The New Universe: The Legend of Aoudjila

Zohhāk fled from the great city early in the summer, making his way across the blistering desert where he intended to die. His lover had rejected him, taking another as husband after many nights where she whispered through the wall to [...]

Roundup of interesting things

I find these things interesting, and thought I would share em by compiling a list here today.  The names were NOT changed to protect the innocent.

Ars Technica

Ars Technica has a lot of interesting articles each week. Sometimes I link em on Twitter, sometimes I don’t.  Last week, they talked about advertising and file-hosting sites.  It [...]

Evermist Continues Today

If you missed it last week, you may want to go check out Chapter 1 of my new scifi serial ‘Evermist’ over at: http://www.atfmb.com/Evermist. Chapter 2 drops today at 12:30 pm, mst!

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Evermist-Chapter 1

Chapter One

Elias folded his good white shirt and placed it in the duffel atop his other worldly possessions he was allowed to take with him; two pairs of pants – one black, one dark blue, small clothes and undershirts, three pair of long underwear his mother had made special for the trip, two long, woolen [...]

Flash Fiction: The Guardian

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Tales from The New Universe: The Guardian

All I had to do was save the world.

Her name is Alison. I met her ten years ago. We were married eighteen months later by a Priest without a flock on a mountain with the snow falling all around us and the [...]

Flash Fiction-In space, nobody knows which way is up

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Tales from The New Universe: In space, nobody knows which way is up

“Four minutes of reserve oxygen remains,” said the computer voice in my ear.

Mutiny. That’s what it was – mutiny!  Do you know what they did to mutineers in the old days? Do you? [...]