spinning yarns from heartstrings
“How many is this for them? Eight? Nine?” “Eleven,” Ecor sighed. “Eleven. It’s… a travesty. No one can take care of eleven children, not even the richest of men.” Niss stared down at the hovel, spying two of older children huddled together and shivering beneath a moth-eaten burlap sack they were using to keep warm. […]
Two years of skipping lunches, clipping coupons, skrimping and saving every penny he could get his hands on, and it’d been entirely worth it just to see her smile as the dragons of Candlour began their deci-annual migration. It was their ten year anniversary, too, which made it the perfect celebration. Just before the […]
She didn’t want to marry any of the kings who came to the palace from far and wide to ask her father for her hand. They were all old, many of them fat and smelly, and the way they ogled her as they sized up their future prize made Jezzen’s stomach feel heavy and full […]
Captain Egre stood, mouth agape on the starboard bow and uncertain how to proceed as the monstrous construct held the ship in place. The sea raged against the storm, powerful winds whipping and tearing the sail. Unmoved by the howling wind, unfazed by the torrents of rain, the construct had saved their lives, but to […]
Today is the day! Today is the day! My brand new short story, “Surprise! You’re An Android” is now available pretty much everywhere eBooks are sold. And it’s just 99 cents, which makes it the perfectly affordable short read to take with you to the beach, the doctor’s office, the coffee shop… just about anywhere, […]
The masons worked quickly, layering thick slabs of stone across the barbed fence while the guardsman patrolled the eastern quadrant. They monitored their progress for three days straight, one of them always watching until they knew every step of their routine. It would only take another four days, five at the most, before the […]
As promised last week, I have some pre-order details about my upcoming short story, “Surprise! You’re An Android”. It’s now available for pre-order on all platforms, and it’s just $0.99! That’s right, for less than the cost of a cheap coffee at your local coffee shop, you can sit down in the coffee shop and […]
I was incredibly determined this morning to make some headway on this project, so I sat down, read back through everything I’d already written, and decided to scrap all but maybe 400 words of it. Which was really sad because I’d actually written about 4000 words today, but it was also happy because they were […]
It’s been a few months since I released a new short story, and with all those beach vacations on the horizon for a lot of people I figured it was my civic duty to provide folks with something to read between shark sightings, late summer fireworks, and waiting for your favorite android to finish grilling […]
To say I have any idea what I’m doing with this Camp NaNoWriMo experience would be an absolute lie. I have a significant portion of my novel project planned, but every time I sit down to write, I end up working on a short story. And not the same short story, mind you, but new […]