Author Archives
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The Precarious Perch of Lookout County
This story first appeared on the Wily Writers’ Podcast. It was an early story to see publication and had the added bonus of being read by a voice actor for the podcast! The theme, Weird Western, wasn’t a genre I’d ever read much of, but my fantasy/wild west mash up apparently met the editor’s expectations. Happy to share it here again on my site!
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Dribble Drabble
A funny thing happened. If you recall, I posted one of my old stories which I won a contest with. Well, I won another one right after that…
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Grandpa in a Box
Believe it or not, I won an actual contest with this one…
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Tempest
This week I scrapped a story that just wasn’t working. So, instead, I’m posting one of my previously sold stories as I clean up my “published” links…
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First Article of 2021 Accepted for Publication
We’ve all had the same dumpster fire year. Bushwhacking through the chaos. But I’m back on the trail.
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Fiction as a Lifestyle Choice
“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” Everyone. Internet. 2020.
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How the Internet Became a Recursive Loop
We must disempower lifestyle vaporware and focus on the real world…
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The Truth Behind Conspiracy Theories
My first instinct was to dismiss his assertion much like I was emptying our RV black tank full of two weeks of excrement into the sewer….
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A Nomad’s Work is Never Done
Far from an inconvenient mess, the ordeals all become part of the adventure. New experiences, new places, new faces, a few risks along the way – that’s the life we’ve chosen, the nomad life.
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Grappling with the Past to Move into the Future
When I set out to write Ace Grant, I wanted to create a wholly American mythology. It needed to reflect our history, not simply write another Western European transplant of faye courts and vikings. Magic existed here long before those cultures arrived. Our story then is one of a fusion of cultures amid a migration full of triumph and tragedy.
Complex, sure. But I knew one thing. The protagonists? They didn’t look like me…
