Free fiction…kind of.
This is it! The final week before War Among the Crocodiles comes out! w00t!
So this week, I’m kinda cheating, as it were. I’m offering you the first few chapters of the new book to read.
It was an interesting book to write.…
Free Fiction — Prophesy in Shadows
If you saw the previous post, you’ll know that Knotted Road Press is having a “Going to Grandma’s Sale.”
The Raven and the Dancing Tiger is on sale for one week only for $0.99. Auberon and Darklady’s Carnal Archives are also on sale.…
Free Fiction–Movers, Inc.
The story this week was originally written for a Fiction River anthology. The spec for the anthology involved teens discovering their superpowers.
I wrote one story (The Glass Girl) but I was afraid it was just too weird. So I wrote a second story, this one, Mover’s Inc.…
Free Fiction–The Alchemy of Coffee
The short story for this week, The Alchemy of Coffee, started as a writing assignment for a workshop. The anthology we were supposedly writing for was titled, “YUMMY.”
Of course, I didn’t necessarily go food related. Or totally food related.…
Free fiction–Community Service
Community Service, like many of the other stories I’m publishing during this Baker’s Dozen Redux challenge, have received some very positive rejections. (This one almost sold but I was stupid and didn’t take the offer when I should have.)
This short story isn’t really like any of my novels, however.…
Free Fiction — New World Gambles
I have two stories set in the 1800s in Victoria, Canada, dealing with the tong.
Though this one takes place chronologically before the second, I wrote the second first.
I remember how much fun I had writing the first story set here.…
Free Fiction–Let’s Make a Deal!
There are times when I write silly.
The short story this week is indicative of that. It isn’t laugh-out-loud funny. It’s more of a snicker.
Then again, this story takes place in kind of a silly place, at the First Contact Café.…
Free fiction — The Healer’s Daughter
While I was writing the novel A Sword’s Poem I came to realize that there was a huge, long backstory for one of the main characters, namely, the priestess Ayumi.
While I was at the fantasy workshop earlier this year, I decided to write that story.…
Free fiction Tuesday…
Yes, it’s Tuesday again. Got another story for you.
This story is historic fiction. It’s one of The Shadow Wars stories, the first one in The Guardian Hound.
I started my career writing historic fantasy. I’d always been fascinated with history, as well as with China.…
Free fiction – Out of the Woods
Continuing on this Baker’s Dozen Redux, I have a new story to offer.
Out of the Woods is a post-apocalyptic story. However, it’s more of a thriller than anything else.
Going back to one of my original premise, and the genesis of the Baker’s Dozen Redux–I rarely write stories that feel similar.…