Writing Samples

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AGGRESSIVE MIMICRY

SHORT STORY EXCERPT

A 'freeformer' (shapeshifter) predator in Paris practices being human.

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LIGHT JUNKIE

PART 1 OF 3 - EXCERPT

You live in a world after the sun never rose, navigating the dark dark in search of flux (light photons) that you can exchange for a drug that gives you visions of sight and of your "lost one," your estranged husband, James.

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THAT'S THE WAY THE FORTUNE COOKIE CRUMBLES

FIRST 50 PAGES

Yegor, young Red Army soldier, dodges a bullet destined for him. A curse. Wherever he goes, Death (personified as Likho from Russian folklore) peruses. Every time he evades her, she catches the person nearest him instead.

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NOWHERE AND THE FIRST FIRE DEER

PROLOGUE & CHAPTER 1

The youngest fire foals with the brightest glowing spots like to ask to hear the story of the magick tamer who first befriended their kind, and the fire deer who burned the foes of the realm with her. The tamer’s name was Nowhere.

That was not her given name. At birth she had been bequeathed one of the unpronounceable names in the ancient tongue of the DelvKin. Ancient as the subkingdom from whence she came.

Banished to the cold Surface Realm after sympathizing with the "two-skin" prey during her first raiding party, she is taken in by a magick tamer who teaches her the craft helps her choose a new name. As part of her teachings she must summon her familiar. A fire deer appears, who cannot help but burn everything he touches.

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CLOUD CITY

PROLOGUE

When an unusual cloud forms over the city it becomes a tourist attraction, much to the chagrin of the locals, including Amethyst, a Cloud City Coffee barista.

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FOREST FABLES

FLOCK TOGETHER

This piece is from a collection of short tales with big morals about forest animals and their human follies.

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