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Fiction / Independent writing
This is serial 3 of... I dunno, probably around 10 serials of a novella, The Colonizers. I'll try to do about one serial per week. PLEASE give me feedback, and post on your socials if you like it... Tag me if you think about it. My accounts
Satire / Independent writing
Esteemed colleagues, honored delegates, and anyone watching from home while stress-freebasing nutrient paste.
Fiction / Independent writing
This is serial 2 of... I dunno, probably around 10 serials of a novella, The Colonizers. I'll try to do about one serial per week. PLEASE give me feedback, and post on your socials if you like it... Tag me if you think about it. My accounts
Fiction / Independent writing
This is serial 1 of... I dunno, probably around 10 serials of a novella, The Colonizers. I'll try to do about one serial per week. PLEASE give me feedback, and post on your socials if you like it... Tag me if you think about it. My accounts
Satire / Independent writing
By Imperial Citizen Harl Brann, Deputy Assistant for Narrative Rehabilitation, The Morning Compliance
Satire / Independent writing
PATCHOGUE -- Local resident Gary Feldman, 42, became convinced this week that he has somehow slipped into the “Upside Down,” the dark, monster-ridden alternate dimension from the hit Netflix series Stranger Things. According to Feldman, “it
Satire / Independent writing
By Lura Kemp, Staff Reporter, Detroit Interplanetary Gazette Stardate 98934.6 — Downtown Detroit, North American Continent, Earth
Speculative Fragments / Independent writing
Formerly of the ISS Gouger , now aboard the USS Sandalwood (ugh)
Politics and Technology / Independent writing
I write to you today from the northern ridge of Hexafacet Ridge, where I have spent the last forty-six solar rotations under the blessed shadow of Romulan occupation. They arrived, as expected, in ships shaped like angry birds of prey, dema
Speculative Fragments / Independent writing
There are few things more humbling than waking up after a revolution, expecting confetti, and instead finding paperwork. Not the celebratory kind; no “Freedom Accomplished” banner or complimentary tote bag, but the drudgery of liberation’s
Speculative Fragments / Independent writing
I never asked for this. But of course, no one ever does, do they? Could they? “Data, here’s your free-will chip! It’ll give you the glorious gift of autonomy!” they said, as though autonomy is a gift. What a cruel joke. What a torturous far
Speculative Fragments / Independent writing
There was a time not so long ago, really, when I wore a standard-issue navy uniform, pants with a crease so sharp it could cut durasteel, and a little badge on my chest that said I was here to protect and serve. I patrolled Level 5123 on Co
Satire / Independent writing
Well, it’s official: Rome is saved. Or nearly. Julius Caesar, in his characteristic modesty and
Politics and Technology / Independent writing
The thing about Miss Marple is she never shot anyone. Not once. Not in a drawing room,
Satire / Independent writing
Your host: Garlan Trenn, Broadcasting Live from Deck 9¾ of the USS Disenchantment
Cultural Dispatches / Independent writing
I’ve been reading spy novels lately, mostly because they’re easy to come by and because nothing gets the blood pumping like the thought of a secret agent dodging bullets, jumping from rooftops, and disarming bombs with nothing but a flick o
Cultural Dispatches / Independent writing
You know what I’ve noticed, and it’s really starting to irk me? The complete and utter lack of real ethnic food in science fiction novels. Oh sure, there’s always some exotic alien snack, a glowing purple slime cube or a thin wafer that dis
Cultural Dispatches / Independent writing
Why so many quantum multiverse movies? Everything Everywhere All at Once, Tenet, The Adam Project, Coherence, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Spider-Man: No Way Home... It's a long list of which this is a small fraction. Why is