Misadventures of a nomadic Siberian
I m starting my big Pacific Crest Trail adventure this Saturday at long last. I ll give up news, social media, and blogging for the duration of my hike. (Though I reserve the right to blog in the event of exceptionally good news.) Not that there s much internet out in the wilderness, in any case. I ll stay [ ]
Week 9 One of my big and weird goals is to have a story published in every SFF magazine out there. Buuut that d be pretty hard to do if I have no fantasy stories in my arsenal. (Or at least classic fantasy, not my fallback urban fantasy subgenre.) And so A 4,000-word story that explores [ ]
I have a new story out! Ready, Set, Grind! is a fun flash story I wrote during an online writing workshop (relentless self-improvement, eh) and no, this time it s not sci-fi, though it was inspired somewhat by my own hustling days when I was a warehouse grunt, chasing overtime shifts and always trying a [ ]
A subway station where the red exit signs lead you not toward a discernible exit of any kind but rather into a very long corridor that twists and turns and becomes ever more corridors, ever darker, and the existence of the promised exit becomes an article of faith, a fact no longer, and you wonder
Beautiful nature, lovely people, homicidal drivers. If you ve ever wondered what life is like for pedestrians in the Mad Max universe, come on over to Thailand and see for yourself! Street crossing lights were ridiculously rare, but even then, why bother if almost every car would just run the red light? I m frankly amazed that [ ]
High tide. From underneath The clear and turquoise waves A hand emerges Holding a full beer.
I got accepted into the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival, one of the top film fests in the world! They loved my NASA-scavenged film Please Don t Send Help, and that means I ll be flying off to Iowa for an absolutely unforgettable week of films and fun and fantastic new friends in April. Incidentally, that ll be [ ]
It feels utterly gauche to share personal good news in the midst of this horror, but the votes are in. I am a finalist in BSFA s Best Non-Fiction (Short) category with my essay, When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident. You can find the full list of nominees over here. [ ]
Week 6 This week s story was a wild mix of sci-fi, horror, and dark humour, weighing in at about 1,650 words. Pro tip: it s much easier to draft and edit if the entire story is a monologue! No worrying about the characters body language, no need to overthink whether you used the said speech tag [ ]
Rome must fall. Rome will fall. Rome will always have fallen.