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I am in the midst of a giant reorg of this page (and it’s subpages), so I apologize for the mess!

Science Fiction, Fantasy (Urban and High), and Other fiction can be found below.

Fan Fiction has its own archive and can be found here.
Twitter prompt responses (mostly #vss365) can be found here.

This list includes unfinished works– Want to only see finished things? Click here!


Recent WIP Updates

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Science Fiction | Urban Fantasy | High Fantasy | Other


Magic Realism (Urban Fantasy)

Looking for stories set in real life… that’s taken just a few steps sideways? Then this is the section for you! đꙂ

The stories below range from mild urban fantasy to more warped takes on reality. If it happens on Earth and there’s no Clarke’s Third Law lampshade to make it Science!— then you’ll find it here!


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Werewolves are born (or adopted) into a cursed family that’s only mostly evil.
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Werewolves (via symbiotic wolf spirits), empaths (who remove emotions), and faux-James Bond-based fictives who have lost their canon.
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Jenn’s still getting used to being dead, but her best friend’s getting married and there are some pinky promises you just don’t break.

Dogs of the Never Never’verse
Ghost hounds and hinds who guard the Veil between life and death… and the normal human who (don’t) love them!

Tales of the Drunken Unicorn
Sam accidentally bound herself to a unicorn and is now the magical guardian of a college campus. The local magical community is not amused.

Too Old for Neverland’verse
The girl who isn’t Wendy traded away her name for immortality and a chance to stop the man who wasn’t Peter Pan from stealing any more children.

Whistling in the Dark
Good lost a battle it didn’t know it was fighting and now a thousand years of darkness are on the horizon and we’re running out of flashlights.

Unaffiliated Stories
These guys don’t have a ‘verse… yet.

Science Fiction | Urban Fantasy | High Fantasy | Other


High/Second World Fantasy

Want to take a slightly longer trip away from the real world?

These stories are all second-world or ‘High’ Fantasy in which our reality never existed or exists only long enough for the protagonist to move from point A to point B.


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Science Fiction | Urban Fantasy | High Fantasy | Other


Science Fiction

Most of the following stories are Soft Science Fiction with a few darts into unabashed Science Fantasy. Someday I will pull off a Hard SciFi story… but not yet (darnit).

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Sixteen Tons of Light Verse Banner
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Science Fiction | Urban Fantasy | High Fantasy | Other

Other Fiction

Every so often I write something that doesn’t fit neatly into a category. I’ve been tempted to call this the ‘outlier’ section, but that seemed a bit mean. ;)These are stories that aren’t from an established universe. Maybe someday the plot bunnies will strike again—but for now they are standalones.

An Ode to Spammers : 104 words (Poem)
I do not like you Spam-I-Am.

Beyond the Sea :  121 words (Song/Poem)
There is a land beyond the sea…

Dancing in Bars : 101 words (Poem)
Dancing in bars/And showing off scars/Of a thousand shattered dreams.

Graveyard Dogs : 31 words (Poem)
Those graveyard dogs,

Hope Burns : 100 words
It wasn’t healthy, but she couldn’t bring herself to give up what little hope had made it through the war.

In Will Alone : 85 words (Poem)
Take this pain of half-imagined never-afters,

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