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  • The Severed World: Traps I Set For Myself

    The Severed World is one the hardest things I have ever written and I love it more for that. I am proud of this story even if I recognize that some parts of it fall short of perfection in my own mind. I have a richly imagined world but worry that I didn’t see through…


    August 13, 2023
  • The Queen, the Historian, and S’mores

    Part 1 of 2 The two time travel stories in the book, the short story Times of Life and Death and the Novella The Severed World grew from one very humble writing prompt origin. But they grew into two of the most sprawling stories in the book and, I hope, will grow into a continuing…


    July 25, 2023
  • Pizza in Space

    Curved Space, the first story in Songs of a Befuddled Muse but it wasn’t the first one we did. “A Pizza delivery guy proposing to a spaceship captain“ It was a simple prompt and pretty easy to use the minimalist required elements. The fun came from trying to figure out why a spaceship captain would…


    July 12, 2023

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