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Hello everyone! If you're looking for a short story to read today, I know where you can find one. I know where you can find 29, actually: in the new anthology Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures! In it, you'll find a variety of sci-fi/horror tales including Scary Canary Actuary by one D. Roe Shocky. It's available… Continue reading Monstrous Futures Available Now
Hi everyone! Just a reminder that Dark Stars, an anthology published by Shacklebound Books, is now available. This sci-fi horror collection entirely features stories of exactly 100 words. Two of my never-before-published stories—Forward, and Knowing the Cost, and Seeing It—are included. You can pick up a copy of Dark Stars here: https://books2read.com/u/4ENvWE Please be sure to rate… Continue reading “Dark Stars” Now Available
Happy Wednesday! If it's been awhile since you've checked out the Other Works page, then...surprise! I'm pleased to share that I now have pre-order links available for three new original short stories. Being released first is Dark Stars, an anthology of sci-fi horror drabbles—stories of exactly 100 words—from Shacklebound Books. I have two stories included in… Continue reading 3 New Short Stories for Pre-order!
Miria’s eyesight was poor, and that was before the hibernation sickness. She awoke alone. The Mon Chou was as deathly quiet as space itself. It was a freighter—unglamorous, but cheaper than a passenger transport—hauling a wormhole mouth to Khambalia. Miria wandered the identical empty corridors. Motion sensors kept her spotlit within the surrounding blackness. By… Continue reading What Comes Lurking in the Light
A swell of nausea pulled Private Elowen Dextre out of darkness. The spinning in her head was a very specific sensation: gravity flux. She felt she was strapped to a flight chair, but her arms and legs were restrained, too. She opened her eyes, and the sight before her gave her stomach a new reason… Continue reading 88 More
I ran down the emergency outer corridor on Lambda Deck, but it looked like all the others. The escape pods were gone. The automatic lighting was intermittent. The long-dried dark brown splatters on the white walls and floors made my heart thrash in my chest and I had to keep swallowing bile, but I refused… Continue reading Just the Start
It came from beneath the ice dear God what was that thing it came from beneath the fucking ice! Waverly Thompson ran for her life over a frozen rock-littered waste the color of burnt molasses. Her heart raged in her chest as it failed to satiate her oxygen-starved muscles, but her scramble didn't slow. It… Continue reading Priority Message
"What was that thing?" Becca asked, her breathlessness preventing the sobs she knew were coming. "Who cares? We need to get out of here, now." Grant pulled at her elbow and before she knew it her legs were flying beneath her as she swatted away brambles and damp leafy branches in the sickly light of… Continue reading No Safe Haven
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