Short Stories

Complete short stories or excerpts thereof.

#SaturdayScenes: Cyber Radio, Part 1 ~ Popcorn

Ahead of its release in my Random Origins short story collection, I will preview Cyber Radio for my readers as part of my ongoing #SaturdayScenes initiative. Make sure you join my Reader’s Club to get the other free stories I offer to my subscribers, and to get further notifications regarding the release of Random Origins […]

Random Origins, Feral, Two Our Cyber World Books, Coming Soon

Now that Blood Track is out, I am returning my attention to the Our Cyber World series for a spell. Specifically, I plan to release a short story collection titled Random Origins, featuring Semi, Cyber Radio, DroNET, and King’s Sacrifice. Jointly, these four stories will cover key events leading up to DEAD BEEF. As such, […]

A Novel That Was Actually a Short Story: King’s Sacrifice

I’ve had this story in the works for over a year. I knew how it fit into the overall narrative, with its characters and locales featured in Pink Ballerina and Beisbol Libre. I loved it, too, because it incorporates one of my adolescent loves: Chess, baby! But I thought it was a novel. And it […]

With Semi & Dronet: A Little Long for Short Stories

With every try, it becomes increasingly self-evident I can’t write a short story to save my life. Maybe, as I’ve indicated before, I don’t get much runway to flesh out my ideas and characters in a true short story, so I end up going long. Case in point, Dronet. I thought this story would come […]

Dronet, a Sequel to Semi, an Our Cyber World Story

Julian Rogers had a great idea: network a bunch of drones, and use them to deliver a Cyber payload. But the concept went nowhere for lack of Federal funding. When terrorists unleash coordinated drone attacks on the US Capitol, Julian becomes the lead suspect. Did he, embittered and frustrated, spill his idea to the terrorists? […]

#SaturdayScenes: SEMI, a Short Story, Part 3

To celebrate the release of Ghost Writer, and because I like to give away free stuff, I also released Semi as a free download, available exclusively to my mail list subscribers. In case you haven’t picked it up, here’s a sneak peak of the third chapter. Let me know what you think! Chapter 3 ~ […]

#SaturdayScenes: SEMI, a Short Story, Part 2

To celebrate the upcoming release of Ghost Writer, I also released Semi as a free download, available exclusively to my mail list subscribers. Now released, I will give you a peak by posting the second chapter. Let me know what you think! Chapter 2 ~ Sway and Ride “Like a casino,” Cynthia says, slapping me […]

#SaturdayScenes: SEMI, a Short Story, Part 1

To celebrate the upcoming release of Ghost Writer, I will also release Semi as a free download, available exclusively to my mail list subscribers. Ahead of its release, I will give you a peak by posting the first chapter. Let me know what you think! Chapter 1 ~ Truck Stop I should’ve turned around the […]

A New (and Free!) ‘Our Cyber World’ Short Story

Along with the Feral prequel, now with a completed first draft, I am planning to release Semi, a short story that will show how Martin Spencer and Julian Rogers came to work together. I will make this short story free, and at first exclusively so, to my mail list subscribers. I haven’t fully decided yet, […]

Woo-hoo! #AmWriting Tracking Jane again

After spending a great deal of time preparing for a dual release in December, I sure am glad to get back to writing. All the better that it involves a Tracking Jane series story! Fleeting Shadow will come as a short story covering a part of the eight month period between Rover and Tahoe-1. This […]