One day I was sitting here and I thought, we need more cowboys in space. This lead me to sit down at the computer and start writing. The result was originally called ‘The Brothers of Katie Rose’; an homage to the classic western flick, ‘The Sons of Katie Elder’, but then I changed it to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Tales from The New Universe: SuperHero
The thing about being a superhero is that everyone expects you to save the day all the time, to be on your toes no matter what, to have all the answers.
No one warned me before all of this started that it would be like [...]
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Tales from The New Universe: Solar City
“Welcome to Solar City” says the card in large, bright blue letters. It depicts your classic suburban dream complete with a row of large houses each with neatly trimmed yards and white picket fences all lined up nice and proper the way [...]
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Whooops!
If this is the way I’m going out, then bring it on.
That’s what I wanted to say. It’s the renegade in me; the rogue. He’s always saying stupid shit like that, and it never, ever ends well.
Still, when you’re staring death in the face, I suppose there [...]
This is an original work of Flash Fiction by Patrick Hester
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Free Falling
Falling from a thirtieth floor window sucks.
If you don’t have a parachute, it’s worse. Still, I don’t panic. I still have the crossbow and the bolt with the line. Plus the automatic pistol. I shoot down, shattering the windows below [...]