All stories below are my original work and are openly licensed via CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Enemies - In dystopian literature, as in science, you isolate one or a couple variables to better identify how those variables influence things. Believe it or not, this story actually started as a space opera, but I pretty quickly changed it to taking place 20 minutes in the future. Content warnings: Violence and death against children, political […]
- Empathy Gap - I wrote this 10 years ago. I was driving somewhere at an odd time of day, and caught an NPR program I had never heard before. The man being interviewed used the phrase “empathy gap” and it lodged in my mind. After writing the story, I submitted it to a bunch of science fiction magazines. […]
- Kinked Guts - I wrote this early in 2024, before Donald Trump was elected a second time. I was anxious about what a second Trump presidency would look like. Now that’s a reality, and it seems like I was right about some details and wrong about some others. In general I think utopian fiction is more important than […]