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For your reading pleasure, selected pages. Should you be an agent, ask for more and you shall receive.

AGGRESSIVE MIMICRY

Short Story Excerpt

A 'freeformer' (shapeshifter) predator in Paris practices being human.

LIGHT JUNKIE

Part 1 of 3 - Excerpt

You live in a world after the sun never rose, navigating the dark dark in search of flux (light photons) that you can exchange for a drug that gives you visions of sight and of your "lost one," your estranged husband, James.

THE IMMORTAL MONK

Short Story Excerpt

A poor to riches cautionary tale in a magical realism world.

THE HOUR IS GLASS

First 60 Pages of Novel

Yuri, young Red Army soldier, dodges a bullet destined for him. A curse. Wherever he goes, Death (personified as Likho from Russian folklore) peruses. Every time he evades her, she catches the person nearest him instead.

NOWHERE AND THE FIRE DEER

Prologue & First Chapter

The youngest fire foals with the brightest glowing spots like to ask to hear the story of the magick tamer who first befriended their kind, and the fire deer who burned the foes of the realm with her.

THE VIOLET SPECTRAL CONDENSATION PHEMONEMON

Short Story Excerpt

When an unusual cloud forms over the city it becomes a tourist attraction, much to the chagrin of local, Amethyst, a Cloud City Coffee barista.

FOREST FABLES

Flock Together

This piece is from a collection of short tales with big morals about forest animals and their human-like follies.

THE BLACKEST DRESS

Short Story Excerpt

In a world where every grief must be worn with black thread, the woman with the blackest dress meets a threadmaker whose dress does not bear a single scar.

MEDUSA'S ScULPTOR

Short Story Excerpt

One of Medusa's victims, now on display in the Greek and Roman Art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a broken statue head, recalls the events that led him to be turned to stone.

OUTSIDE THE BOX

Short Story Excerpt

In a world where technologically advanced cattle live underground in shipping containers, one young bull finds his way to the surface, full of natural marvels.

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