Blog and Short Stories

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  • The Story Continues…

    Well, as promised, the audiobook of The Harbinger is available on Audible, iTunes, and Amazon! Infinite thanks to voiceover actor Eric F. Martin for remaining patient with an author’s foibles during the process. Hearing the story come alive in a… Read more

  • Audiobook Forthcoming!

    I know it’s been a minute since my last post, but it’s been a busy/eventful couple of months. Between climbing trips, intense writer’s block, and the passing of a dear friend, my life has been a bit of an emotional… Read more

  • Via Vitae – Episode Two

    Day 2:             More bright lights.  More service drones.  Some kind of liquid shoved into my mouth.  I barely had time to register its mild sweetness before excruciating pain consumed me, and I cried out.  Why were they doing this… Read more

  • The Backstory of The Harbinger

    I’m a month into having released my first self-published space opera/space western book The Harbinger, and boy, has it been an adventure! I first sat down to write the story in 2013. As a professional mariner, I found myself with… Read more

  • Via Vitae – Episode One

    A voyage in suspended animation is awesome… truly the only comfortable way to travel if you ask me.  Drifting through the void, burning days and months as if in some dream-like state, keeps the mind from wandering down too many… Read more

  • The Last of the Last Best Place

    “Excuse me Sir, are you Mr. Dodd?” Jim Dodd heard his name and turned, unsurprised by the heavyset man huffing breathlessly toward the gate of his fortified fence. He was well-dressed, sporting a tweed coat and porkpie hat perched intentionally… Read more

  • Revisiting the College Years

    College was a strange time for me, but let’s be honest. It’s strange for most people, so I’m not unique in that sense. Also like most people, I probably had no good ideas regarding what I actually wanted to do… Read more