Field Recordings

Back in the northern colony they had begun to preparing everyone for starvation. For death. And now were there any left? The Dun-in-man man lived. The Dun-in-man could stumble upon her. She almost wished he would. Two against a pack meant blood, flesh, skin, and bones to nurse for the winter. Would he take her too? She did not know. The colony; the constable swinging his weight around the gated property to keep everyone on their toes. As food supplies grew short so does patience. Paranoia begins. She is the first to leave. "The colony,” she whispered. She placed the pot on the stove, pulling her blankets close. Fever sweat rolled off her forehead. "I, Tiresias," featured in Common Oddities Speculative Fiction Sideshow  , was composed during the period  where I researched the prophet Tiresias, and explored his and her transformations. The story began as a what if scenario: what if one of the last people on the planet were a FTM character? How would she be treated?  Wo...

Part two of my serial, "How the Dun-in Man Got His Name" is available in Helios Quarterly. The Dun-in Man is a mute outlay scout in a future where global warming has flooded the East Coast. The country has reorganized to the middle, leaving the coasts, and flooded cities to pirates, marshpunks, and outlaws. Several Dun-in Man stories have been published, telling stories from different stages of his life.

Helios Quarterly is serializing my marshpunk action-Mad-Max-with-boats-eco-disaster-dystopian fiction "How the Dun-in Man Got His Name," I've written about this character before in Don't Open Till Doomsday .  And in Toxic Tourism , my self published ebook from Amazon. This tale is straight-up pulp. All action and world building! For fans of westerns, gun-slinging, chase stories, and shark attacks.

"Marley & the Dead" is the first of a serial story set in my dystopian world of the Stream. What is the Stream? Well it's the internet of the future. There is no privacy. People can access your social media, your biometric data, your history, your search history, everything. Cities are overpopulated, there are levels and floating, hovering apartment complexes, etc. A serial killer known as the Trashman is on the loose. The young forensic doctor Marley introduces the reader to the killer who hides his DNA in the DNA of thousands, by covering his victims in garbage and waste from different locations around the city. Primarily a character driven story, "Marley & The Dead" explore social issues of our possible future. You can get it here.

Up on Empty Oaks   is my Shakespeare inspired sci-fi tale, "The Play's The Thing".  Follow the link and download, or email. The story is from my Streamworld cycle of stories, and takes place post de-privatization. ...from my commentary in issue one: The world depicted in “The Play’s The Thing” is a futuristic, over-populated, over teched world. This world government has outlawed many things, including live theater, and Shakespeare. In "The Play's the Thing" a couple (consisting of two female grad students--we are post-gay in this world, btw) nearing the end of their romantic contract, stumble across an underground staging of Shakespeare. The magic of Shakespeare intrigues them, and one of the girls falls in love with a fellow audience member, much to her lover and her father's dismay.  She risks her relationships, and possibly her freedom to be with this man, and to continue seeing the underground, illegal plays, whose alien language holds her...