The news reports of the chaotic and terrifying withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 made an impression on me. Since fiction tends to be my way of processing reality, a story started brewing. My imagination led me to set a fictionalized version of those events in a near-future France, transposing …
Have you ever wished for your problems to not just be solved but annihilated? Googled an old lover, found them on social media and lingered over the send button? Wished for the sudden upheaval of your own life? If so, here’s a cup of hot cocoa for you. This story, “My Fire Still Burns,” started …
RUNNING BEAR What is the future of humanity? Can we survive our current dangerous flirtations with climate change and nuclear war? Do we even deserve to? RUNNING BEAR tells the story of an ambitious project to design a mission capable of transporting a thousand highly-skilled humans to colonize another solar system, carrying along an Archive of …
In 2019, I received 96 rejections from literary magazines. These eight stories were accepted and published: Always Running (Stain’d) Cities of the Future (Suspect Press) Satellite Presence (Retreat West) Running Bear (F(r)iction) Circle of Blazers (Chaleur) Cloudscape (The Ghost Story) Love and Death Under the Rain (Red Rock Review) Little Paw (Infinite Worlds) While I’m proud of all these publications, I’m not really …
A stand-alone excerpt from my novel-in-progress was just published in Infinite Worlds Magazine, and I couldn’t be happier with how great this publication looks. The issue is gorgeous, with slick, full-color, full-page bleed images of work from contemporary sci-fi and fantasy illustrations by an international roster of artists. I’m honored to have my work included. It’s …