I am a writer and passionate reader of literary fiction. Diary of a Heretic is where I post work in progress, polished as best I can within a daily time frame, except when stories need a little more development. I also post flash fiction (less than 500 words). . . .
Alezair Czynri, an immortal being with no memory of his past, embarks on a journey with a mysterious woman claiming to be a resident of Purgatory. Through her, Alezair learns the many dark secrets behind the universe, and eventually begins to realize this woman knows more about him than he initially thought. The Antithesis is a horror/sci-fi /dark romance . . .
The ongoing adventures of Father Dylan Shute, a fairly heretical Catholic exorcist and vampire hunter, along with an eclectic cast of coworkers in his Secret Vatican Order and outside of it, battle the forces of evil, paisley, and the end of the world. . . .
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. . . .
Melkeen is a prodigy, a young Wizard with incredible magikal abilities. Sarta is a barbarian blade-for-hire of unbelievable skill. Together, they are a formidable team. And the world is against them. Required by his elder (and rival) Wizards to search out rare and dangerous artifacts, a young man hires a woman to guard him on his travels. Their contract . . .
What do you do when you’re a single parent who can’t make ends meet and the solution is staring you in the face . . . a solution you’d rather not take, but a solution nonetheless? You drop your pride and become a part of The Pride. . . .
All over the world, Knights are appearing. They have swords. They ride horses. They wear shining armour. They’re causing trouble. Nobody knows where they came from or why they’re here—even the Knights themselves are pretty vague on the matter. However, they’re not about to let that get in the way of their crusading. They have a Law to uphold. . . .
God in the Machine is an ongoing science fiction series, which begins with a freak accident that brings a pair of robots out of normal operation and into . . . consciousness. Seemingly the only ones sentient, in a whole galaxy that’s full of nothing but robots, Loeb and Max have to find their way, and survive. Because to the rest of the galaxy, . . .
This is the story of an Earth devoid of humankind. Man and his ancestors have simply never been . . . but in his absence, new civilizations have grown and prospered. The setting is a small island called Sankami, somewhere in what would be Earth’s Pacific ocean. Eight sentient species have evolved here, each with their own laws, customs, and beliefs. The one thing . . .
Who is writing our future? Just when we thought God had finished intervening in our affairs and talking to us through His prophets, Layla appeared. Showing miraculous signs of God-like grandeur, she upsets the equilibrium of the centres of authority and moves humanity, forcibly at times, into a political unity, a federated World Government. Then she disappears. Three . . .
This is only the second piece of script presented fiction that I have read and I admit to knowing very little – if anything at all – about the technicalities of their execution outside my experience as a reader.
What appeals to me about this style of fiction is that it [more . . .]
I’ve been following Kathleen’s bloggistic fiction for over a year now, and I am a big fan. Her writing is unlike any other. I can’t even think who to compare her to, and why bother? Her writing is somehow almost impossibly subtle—she sees beneath the surface always, and this unseen becomes visible in her words, almost tactile.