Year of Stories – Week 20
This week you get three free short stories instead of just one! They all centre around the same character; meet Leon the dragon.
A dragon and a mudge! Made by Tally Heilke.
My friend Tally Heilke has put together some awesome hand-crafted plush figurines based on some of the characters in these stories, and they're available through her Etsy store, so check them out!
Here's the blurb for the first story in the series, Leon Meets a Mudge:
It's almost Leon the Dragon's birthday, when he will get to show everyone what colour fire he breathes! There's just one problem: he doesn't know how to breathe fire yet...
Year of Stories – Week 19
Check out this week's free short story, Adaptations.
An apocalypse has ravaged the planet, dousing the world in deadly radiation. But nature has a way of rolling with the punches, and humans are pretty resilient, themselves, when they have to be. Certain species of worms have turned out to absorb radiation while they're passing through the intestines, and a new industry has grown up around the incredible creatures. Now Boss Osman and his crew have taken to breeding the grubs in illegal labs and exporting their crop to the desert. They're going to be rich! What could possibly go wrong?
Thank you to everyone who watched me live-write the first draft of this story, and who provided feedback and suggestions throughout that process.
Year of Stories – Week 14
Welcome to week 14 of the Year of Stories!
Free this week is From, a 3,100-word western-inspired drama. Read it now! You can also buy it for 99¢ in the Store.
Synopsis
People change. Places change. Dean Cooper knows that as well as anyone. Change is the only constant thing in his life; he accepted that fact a long time ago. But when he decides to stop in at his childhood home one day, will he find its new owners' changes so easy to handle?
The highlighted Store release for this week is Jef and the Sad Sack, a 5,300-word sci-fi children's story. Read it now for only $0.99!
Synopsis
There is a boy who lives in an attic. His name, when he bothers to remember it, is Jef. No one ever comes to visit Jef except the man at the trapdoor, until one day a spaceship crashes into Jef's attic and whisks him away on a fantastic adventure!
To read previously released stories, check out the Year of Stories page.
Year of Stories – Week 8
Welcome to week 8 of the Year of Stories! It's Pirate Week!
Free this week is Captain Blackbird and the Mutineers, a 2,300-word humourous pirate adventure, now available to read for free or buy in the Store.
Synopsis
It's a beautiful day to be a pirate, as far as Captain Blackbird is concerned, but it seems his crew feels differently. They're sick of getting scurvy and going weeks without finding any treasure! When they take a stand and threaten mutiny, Captain Blackbird knows there's only one solution: it's time to go hunting for treasure in the treacherous caves of Gorgon Isle!
The highlighted Store release for this week is Jary's Got a Gun, a 3,500-word comedy about a man who finds "the last gun on earth." Read it now for only $0.99!
Synopsis
On the morning Jary Tomlin finds the world's last remaining gun, he and his wife are having an argument in the kitchen. They're being evicted, and Jary can't imagine how life could possibly get much worse. Then he accidentally knocks a hole in the wall of the garage, and "worse" is exactly what he finds hidden inside.
To read previously released stories, check out the Year of Stories page.
Year of Stories Week 6
Welcome to week 6 of the Year of Stories!
Free this week is Darla, Dragon Hunter. It's a 5,700-word sci-fi action story, now available to read for free or buy in the Store. Here's the synopsis:
My "friends" think I'm a paralegal. I amuse myself sometimes by wondering what they would say if they found out that a couple of times a month I exchange my pantsuit for camo gear and a high-tech sniper rifle and hunt dragons. They'd probably think I was joking. Fine by me.
The highlighted Store release for this week is Escape Velocity, a 1,700-word sci-fi drama. Read it now for only $0.99! Here's a teaser:
I thought stasis would be like sleeping. I thought I’d simply close my eyes on Earth and when I opened them I'd be a hundred light-years away, with no memory of the intervening time or the immense distance I had travelled. I thought stasis would be an escape, but I've spent the absent infinity of our voyage through space exploring the inside of my own head, reliving every one of those moments, those days, those joys, those sorrows.
To read previously released stories, check out the Year of Stories page.
Special People
Special People is serialized superhero fiction with a fistful of twists.
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Losing Freight
Losing Freight is a serialized sci-fi novel where you get to vote on what happens next at the end of every page.
DISCOVERY
Prefer the feel of paper to the look of a screen? DISCOVERY is the first quarterly Year of Stories print book. You get nearly 200 pages of exciting fiction for only $11.99! Grab your copy now.
Flare Fiction: Volume 2
Galloway’s Hunt
Galloway's Hunt is a novelette set in the world of Galloway's Voyage, my work-in-progress novel based on the same title character. Buy it now for only 99¢!