What I Am Up To
What I Am Up To
I have three stories that I am putting out in episode form; two science fiction, Vikings of Asgard, and Donald of Mar; and one dark fantasy, A Fall of Ashes. I am making all three available on Kindle Vella, and on Patreon for those outside the United States or that prefer Patreon over Kindle Vella. Vikings of Asgard Vikings of Asgard I started on Kindle Vella over a year ago and have been…
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A Fall of Ashes; Chapter IV, Demon Ring, Now Available
Black magic. A bewitching dark witch woman in a red cape with a hood conjures with a crystal ball in her hands and looks away unkindly. Magic tales. Halloween. Copy space. My next installment of my Dark Fantasy story, A Fall of Ashes, is now up on both Kindle Vella and Patron. Just when Ashes is resigning herself to the fact that she is going to be a slave for the rest of her life, she finds a…
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The Ai are about to get better at manipulation and control.
This isn't a criticism of Trump and Musk. It was coming this term no matter who got that office.
Adding another free one to my Substack. The Legion, a left over relic of a time when man fought wars thousand of years in the past is called on to explore the totally impossible fourth universe, a place with a planet of infinite radius and surface. The catch is while the laws of Physics are close enough you can live there, modern technology just wont work.
Donald of Mars Chapter 26 is Live on Kindle Vella
When a few of robotic ships carrying non-critical cargo fail, a scramble begins that affects every person on Mars. Read about it and all the previous episodes on Kindle Vella. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0BRG5CG3Q
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The Tomlin of Kara
This is an image that mage.space generated when I gave it my description of a Tomlin. I have no idea why it gave the spear such a ridiculous head on it. Other than that, it isn’t too far off from what I was envisioning when I started writing about Kara all those years ago. Tomlins are green bipedal reptiles with large T-Rex style heads, roughly 1.4 meter tall and were the first outside race that…
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Three stories now available on Kindle Vella
Three stories now available on Kindle Vella
I have started three stories on Kindle Vella, two science fiction, and one fantasy. The first, Viking of Asgard, I drafted over two years ago. I began my rewriting this one over a year ago, having each chapter professionally edited and then publishing it on Vella. Now it has twenty chapters published and I will continue to add to this as a rewrite once chapters get professionally edited. It is…
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Free Flash Fiction: Conversation After a Workout
Social networking or casting couch. You decide
Jenny let the weights clank down hard, then let out a sigh and relaxed her arms, and let them hang there. “This will be my last work out for a time,” she said to the well-muscled blond girl next to her. Mandy, using more control on the machine she was using, let the weights down with a far quieter clink. “Vacation?” she asked the smaller dark-haired girl. “Two months without a work contract.…
Over a month ago, my drip coffee maker broke. instead of getting a new one of fixing it, I have been boil water with coffee in it then poring that into the filter by hand. Doing that I use less than half the coffee for a far better tasting cup. Drip coffeemaker are wasteful. They also use more electric than I realized, keeping your coffee hot.
