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Published Works
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The Beginning is Nigh
Flash fiction horror.
Published: Strange Publication's Fifty-Two Stitches

Finished Drafts
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A Way Out
Harley finds himself in a bad place when he's caught trying to break into a university med lab.
Progress: First Draft Complete (7,600 words)

Illusion Hunter
Venice's job is to go through the forest and get rid of the illusions left over from the war.
Progress: First Draft Complete (4,300 words)

High Security at the Zoo
Joey decides he doesn't like being treated like just another endangered species.
Progress: First Draft Complete (3,000 words)

A Penny For
When Carl decides to leap through time, he doesn't expect to find himself accompanied by Anthony, and neither of them expect to have so much trouble with the natives.
Progress: First Draft Complete (12,300 words)

"Bowling with Aliens"
Reena hates the Bunkgauls, short bowling-ball shaped aliens who have alleviated many of Earth's social ills in return for human labor.
Progress: First Draft Complete (47,000 words)
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The Catechumen
Elise is determined to find her husband and get them both to safety after they are separated by a past that she had thought long-dead. Her journey calls on all her powers of magic, mind, body, and spirit as she fights against stiff religiosity on the one hand and moral recklessness on the other.
Progress: Second Editing Round (35,800 words)

The Shadow of Mandar
Reli guards the small ferians from the encroaching human pioneers who wish to sell them into slavery.
Progress: Draft Complete (8,000 words)

Look Away
Kiran seeks atonement when his bad habits allow a woman, Damayanti, to be robbed in front of him. Kiran's attempt to assuage his guilt leads him down the forking path of his life.
Progress: First Draft Complete (7,141 words)

Gift Horse
Stephanie, a handicapped young woman who finds it difficult to communicate with the outside world, finds herself enraptured by the unexplained appearance of a white horse in the wilderness.
Progress: First Draft Complete

Working On It

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Adopted
Sherry is a teen living in a world where the human population has suffered a serious decline. She lives at the former location of SETI, where an alien probe is being kept. After generations of studying the probe, most of the townspeople don't expect anything new to come of it. Boy are they wrong.
Progress: 9,000 words

Fishing Line
Patrick regrets taking a job at the high-tech company The Experience, Inc., but all the secrecy and those pesky contracts keep him from simply quitting. He finds a transport spaceship willing to help him escape, but the deal might turn out to be more trouble than it's worth.
Progress: Outline

Feretris
Cedric's kidnapping brings Feretris and all of its horrors to the forefront of Tok politics.
Progress: 22,000 words

A Selfish Calling
Under the guidance of an ancient spirit named Utle, Penden must pretend to be Zach's half-witted pet in order to sneak into, of all places, a park.
Progress: Sort of finished

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