Welcome aboard! Here’s a quick list of everything I’ve written. Feel free to browse!
For ease, I’ve separated my fiction short stories into five subgenres:
Short Stories
Adventure
To God’s Tower by Dawn: Three children. A stolen urn. One night to reach the highest tower.
Wyrmslayer: A traditional draconid hunt gone sideways – predator becomes prey.
The Wolf-Man’s Trail: He joined the shepherds to flee the law, but something far worse awaits him in the unforgiving mountains.
The Myr Has a Thousand Eyes: An fleeing expedition pursued into the vast swamp known as the Myr, where death awaits intruders among the tall grass.
The Forester and the Child: After a woodsman rescues an infant from a failed ambush, he must deliver it to safety.
Warfare
How a Magister Fights: Their enemy has an army, but they have a man who is monk, scholar, and warrior; they have a magister.
Blood in the Siege Tunnels: A fort in the desert mountains. The enemy is seeking to undermine their walls. Cat-and-mouse through soil and stone. Bloody, unforgiving combat.
Of Teeth and Heart: To end the war, this city will be torn apart…. unless she can stop it.
Horror
The Ghost’s Theatre: It’s the night of their debut performance, but actors are dying onstage like their characters and there’s a ghost among the audience. Who can make it out alive?
The Shadow that Follows: In early winter, a starving monk seeks work. But amid the apathy and along the unforgiving road something follows him.
Ice & Candlelight: The sunless weeks of an arctic winter. Why is her son coming home wearing bloodstains? What’s that light across the frozen lake? And what is that incessant noise I hear on the wind?
Folklore-ish
When Gods Came Rollicking to Our Isle: Told from the locals’ standpoint, three gods throw a party on a rural isle. Mayhem ensues.
The Puck’s Favor: He freed the goat-man and earned a wish – one he might pay for with his sanity.
The Spurned King: An Epistolary: A prison missive recounts the legend of The Spurned King of Grova Marna, a god bent on ruling by might alone. But can he keep his crown?
Romance
A Luten in the City: A dissolute immortal must reckon with love and life, suffering and death, and eternity.
The Lass and the Firth’s Pilot: A young woman hires a local pilot to help steal a mysterious item from a brutal seal hunting crew.
Nonfiction
Writing and Storytelling Advice
The Forgotten Narrative Tool: Variable Zoom: Almost no contemporary storytellers use this tool, but it’s honestly one of the greatest advantages of the written word.
Nitpicking Worldbuilding: That Darned Wagon: Here’s how it works… take a worldbuilding thread. Pull on it. Ask the hardest questions you can. I do that here with a wagon.
The Vegetable Model of Exposition: Plenty of advice on how to exposit, but let’s step back and categorize different types of exposition and their applications. The only bad one is the “salad.”
The Limitations of Second-Person POV: Second-person (“You went to the store…”) is often selected by writers for its offbeat, eclectic style. Style is a personal choice, but second-person comes with limitations that ought to be understood and appreciated.
On Writing: A Needless Text Debate: Just for fun, a transcription of a texting conversation between me and a friend in which we get into a big fight about writing philosophy.
Horror: The Salt of Storytelling: As a genre, horror often gets overlooked or depreciated. But grains of it end up in almost every genre, and that’s a good thing.
