Arthur is living in an alternate North America in which the USA never broke away from Britain. The technology level is mid-1970s. One day, Arthur wakes up and finds an ancient wizard sharing his brain. It is a growing-up story, at least for now, and meant to be episodic rather than tightly plotted. . . .
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The Legion of Nothing is the story of Nick Klein and what happens when he takes on the identity (and powered armor) of “The Rocket.” Originally his grandfather’s superhero identity, the powered armor comes with a lot of baggage. Ranging from his grandfather’s service in World War II to connections with other heroes (and villains), the past has a . . .
My online fiction blog opens with an episode of my novel, novella, or short story in progress. The categories listed on the far right sidebar are completed works of fiction. Some I’ve rewritten and others are waiting to be rewritten. Also listed on the sidebar are links to my flash fiction—stories in fewer than 500 words. My . . .
Queen of Seven is a novel about the past, the present, and the future. A story about family. A story about growing up, and growing old. A story of how you can never escape your ghosts or hide your secrets forever. It’s the story of Elly, a girl blessed –– and cursed –– with more power than anyone should ever . . .
The intense, complicated, intriguing, journal of a noble lady. . . .
To friends and family there is nothing remarkable about Justin Cade. Seeing only an awkward, sometimes isolated high school sophomore they would never suspect that he lives a double life as Milestone City’s protector: the holographic heroine known as Glimmer Girl. Juggling school, superherodom and his own skewed sense of self Justin starts down the road of transition into . . .
Set in a fictionalized version of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Ho Springs is the story of a native daughter who returns home after 20 years in Paris to find her family in a shambles, their historic restaurant shuttered, the town itself in chaos. Ho Springs is told from several characters’ viewpoints, including a Parisian teenager and a meth ho, an Evangelical . . .
This blog features my serialized novel, Boy American, about a young American couple on their journey through Russia to adopt a child. Eric and Kate travel by train from Moscow to an orphanage near Novgorod in 2003. Along the way, they must deal with aggravating functionaries, threatening militants, and even their untrustworthy guide. By the time they meet the little . . .
“The Reading List” is an uncensored blog memoir about an English professor going AWOL on the profession she thought she would love, while her corporate high-flyer father takes up reading for the first time. With each new book she discusses with her father – introducing him to diverse literary masters from Joyce to Hemingway to Faulkner to Atwood – . . .
Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .
And the only one who knows the true story is a teenaged Mexican streetpunk who deals dope, smuggles wetbacks, and breeds gamecocks in Tijuana. And he wishes he didn’t know. Fatherless boys often have the fantasy of a Dream Dad showing up; rich, powerful and ready to pluck them out of squalor and insecurity into the lap of luxury. . . .
The cautionary tale of Buddy Best, Hollywood hack. . . .
Seventeen-year-old Sidonie Ardash is leaving her home in Uptown Rivalie, headed for the Bromian Ghetto, a forbidden place she has only read about in the pages of a book written by her mother. She finds a new home, a new family, and a new life in the haunted world of the Broms, a people displaced and cursed by unknowable . . .
I loved reading Tapestry when it was being regularly updated. It was skillfully written—intense, complicated, intriguing, all written by a noble lady in her journal.
The glimpse of her life and culture was beautiful and imaginative, even if it was hard to keep everybody’s name straight sometimes.
I suppose there are people out there who will dismiss "superhero fiction" as trivial, just like there are people who feel that way about space opera, or sword & sorcery, or high fantasy, or any other kind of genre fiction. I’m not one of those people, but I will admit that I’d never really been comfortable reading it. I’m used [more . . .]