Resplendent
A boy starts haunting his local Walmart to see a girl with the upside down smile who won’t shake his hand and won’t leave the store. Their friendship grows in a McDonald’s booth until he asks the question she’s been dreading—and offers the thing she’s been waiting forever to accept.
Cognac Tan
This story was written years ago in response to my buddy’s writing prompt over at Hare Brained Press. The prompt was “Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled.”
Angéle is French
“Je t’aime,” she says, breaking the silence. Her voice is soft, barely audible. Then she becomes self-conscious and pulls her collar around her face. I look at my shoes.
A flash fiction piece I wrote a very long time ago, forgotten and then rediscovered.
Just needed a little polishing.
The Morning After
Most space opera ends when the tyrant falls. Maybe there’s a coronation, definitely a kiss. But the real question isn’t whether you can overthrow a three-thousand-year theocracy. It’s what seventy trillion people with competing agendas do the morning after the god-emperor falls.
The Anointed Path
Immortals are taken as children, remade, and deployed as weapons. This is what that process sounds like from the inside—not from the perspective of the institution, but from the voice that lives in every Immortal’s nervous system. The voice that raises them. The voice they trust most in the world.
Designing a Conlang Backwards
I invented an alien accent by ear, then went back and reverse-engineered the grammar that would naturally produce it. The end result? A new conlang for Doors to the Stars.
Love in the Wasteland: Mikhael and the Art of Gentle Defiance
Mikhael was engineered to be the Dominion’s perfect weapon—a super-soldier who can teleport through combat and heal from anything. When they sent him to kill a rogue operative, he made a different choice: he saved her instead. The woman is Sarai, pregnant with the god-emperor’s child and marked for
The Dark Dominion Sequence
Sarai’s pregnancy is biologically impossible—and proof a god-emperor’s three-thousand-year tyranny is built on a lie. Every faction is hunting her for what she carries. Only one person wants her for who she is—and he was sent to kill her.
Guest Review: Death or Glory
Goodreads reviewer Joanne Budzien calls Death or Glory one of her top 10 books of 2025—so compelling she reread it within a month, finishing both times in under 24 hours. This middle book in my Doomsday Recon trilogy masterfully blends military action, fantasy, and literary fiction without typical s
Doors to the Stars: Chapter One
Sixteen-year-old Wulan has weeks to live. Radiation poisoning from her last salvage run is killing her, and the only thing that might save her is selling the ancient Forger disk she found in the wreck—alien biotech that hums with her dead mother’s lullaby.
