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From this page, you can access the different short stories of mine that I've decided to make publicly available. They're grouped by series.
Note: The majority of my body of work is not appropriate for children. By continuing to browse this page, you assert that you are a legal adult.
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Work in Progress
It is the mediocre capitalist space future. Grummond Planetary Extraction, an interstellar mining conglomerate, wants to exploit the vast ore reserves available on the desert planet Kjetra-7. To this end, the company has placed the Massive Mobile Station Adamantium in orbit around Kjetra-7 to stake their claim. However, a rival corporation has already arrived and gotten entrenched in caves on the surface of the planet. For the sake of profit, the two corporations clash with lethal force. Their weapons of choice? Squadrons of three-story bipedal war machines. These mechs are piloted by an array of colorful characters, and these stories are about their battles and their day-to-day lives.
These stories are presented in the order they were written. They are roughly in chronological order, though there is no significant overarching narrative.
Work in Progress
You can look up anything on the Internet these days! Even how to summon a demon, long thought to be an impossible myth. Goetia.com, the most famous website of our time, hosts dead simple instructions for the ritual, and even sells all the relevant paraphernalia. Solace the succubus, summoned into the human world for the first time, is excited to maybe finally get a meal from a real human man, instead of the synthetic hormone cocktail that she usually subsists on. Unfortunately, the mage that summoned her is the positively ancient (and prudish) Whitworth Whitworth. Whitworth steadfastly refuses to get with the times, and was hoping to control a powerful demonic servant to do his bidding. Instead of just, like, hanging out. Which is what most people do with demons these days. Fortunately, his previous failure to accomplish this goal, a bird demon named Vera, is more than happy to help.
Work in Progress
It was a nice scam, while it lasted.
Spindle was a member of the Blind Boar Circus. This traveling carnival was a facade for a notorious band of thieves and ne’er-do-wells specializing in robbing rich bastards. And Spindle was essential to their operation. Her role? The distraction. Dressed (if you can call it that) as a jester, she salaciously drew the attention of the guards while her fellow burglars turned the place upside down.
But the thing about rich bastards is they all know each other, and if you use the same scam on enough of them, eventually they’re going to start comparing notes. So one fateful night, Spindle and her fellow thieves waltzed right into the sheriff’s trap. Because she was never actually the one to steal anything, though, Spindle got off with a slap on the wrist and some community service.
Unfortunately, that community service is with an itinerant mercenary guild, something Spindle has never had any appetite for at all. Stuck with a party consisting of a frustratingly friendly warrior, a doting champion of the elven fertility goddess, and a foul-mouthed pixie sorceress, will Spindle learn to love the adventurer’s life? Or did all her screwing around earn her the worst punishment of them all?
In 2017 and 2018, I submitted stories to an annual short horror story contest hosted by Jonathan Wojcik on his website. This makes these stories the first works I ever published to the internet (beating the first fanfiction I ever posted to AO3, but that's it's own kettle of fish). I made semifinalist both times, and I still consider these stories pretty good even if horror didn't end up being the genre I settled into. I've decided to publish them here for the same reason I'm publishing my school scraps: to make this website a more complete folio of my work.
"Chapter summaries" provided for these stories are quotes from the contest page about the respective story.