Short Stories and Novellas
Deathless (2024) – Forthcoming
Heart of the Sea (2024)
Aodhán grew up hearing legends of the sea—and just like his father, those legends have come for him.
When the Sealord’s fleet ravages Aodhán’s home, his dreams and naivety are shattered on the rocks of reality. Ilya Viteazu, an infamous privateer on a mission from the Sealord himself, gives Aodhán an offer he dare not refuse. He is plunged into a brutal world of sorcery, empires, and the mythical creatures known as the Salka. But Ilya has her own game to play, and through it Aodhán will encounter the greatest mysteries of the depths—and the truth of his father’s loss at sea.
When Blood Decides All (2024)
Asha’s little brother Olu is dying, and her only way to save him is to make a deal with the Granter, the ancient monster that lurks in Vascitio’s catacombs. As one of countless orphans haunting the city’s waterways, she is no stranger to fending for herself, but she is a stranger to murder—and that’s exactly what the Granter wants her to do.
One life for Olu’s. The life of a stranger who bears a secret that could change Asha’s life forever. A secret of blood, and blood decides all.
Forthcoming in The Underdogs Rise Volume 2, and anthology by The Underdog Press.
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Her Father’s Daughter (2024)
After losing her homeworld to the Andromeda-Solarian war, Iseula Aoyama finds herself on the hunt. For eight long years she has been searching, and at last, in the debris-encrusted orbit of Azeroth II, she thinks she has found him: the man who shattered her heart.
Were it so easy.
Published in Space & Time Magazine 146. One of the oldest speculative fiction magazines, it has been in print since 1966.
The Last Wyvernslayer (2024)
Yorimasa hunted the wyverns nearly to extinction. Now she protects the last known wyvern in the world—and her last chance at redemption.
But she is not the young hero she used to be.
Having wasted her youth seeking wrongful vengeance, she uses her twilight years to stand against a world that once idolized her. Time rallies against her, bringing a new generation of would-be wyvernslayers.
This she vows: that Yorimasa, the first wyvernslayer, shall also be the last.
The Children of Desolation (2023)
Determined to save his wife, Tumelo Laska takes an unlikely client through South Africa’s ruins to the heart of the Desolation, a journey that will cost or save everything.
Illustrated by Alexandra Albu.
Second place winner in the Writer’s of the Future Contest, published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 39: The Best New SF & Fantasy of the Year.
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When Silence Speaks (2022)
The cataclysm might have taken Yana’s voice, but it could never take her heart. Despite her ailing health, she strives to help the people of Arina and to keep her adoptive family together. Silence has its own voice.
Published in FableCroft’s heartwarming anthology, The Art of Being Human.
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Clear Skies (2022)
The ruins of Vancouver echo with the cries of proxies, humans enslaved by the rogue artificial intelligence, Pathos. Hunkered down with the remnants of the Seaforth Highlanders reserve regiment, Corporal Visalia Martinek makes a last stand, not only against Pathos, but against the ominous agenda of Lieutenant Colonel Kurtz.
Published in Selene Quarterly Magazine’s extensive anthology.
The Cradle Expedition (2021)
Sent on an intergalactic expedition to the lost ruins of Earth, Kalia Dahl has survived long enough to see it turn into a suicide mission. Gripped by the loss of her comrades and the shambles of her military career, and with only a surprisingly sentient Nav Bot as company, she seeks to find meaning in the cursed Cradle Expedition, and to unravel the mystery at the heart of Earth’s ruin.
Published in the Extinct Worlds anthology by Dragon Soul Press.
Reprinted in Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder
The Tree Planter (2020)
Orphaned and lost in a deadly wasteland, Kusuma struggles just to survive each night. Everything changes when she comes across a mysterious wanderer: the Tree Planter.
Free to read on Fiction on the Web.
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Novels
Waelgryre (2015)
My first book ever (self-published). I have since unpublished and retired it on account of it being, ultimately, an incomplete creation in need of more drafts. I prematurely put it out into the world (as many first-time writers do after they write their first work), when both it and readers deserved something more developed, revised, and polished. In hindsight I committed more than a few classic no-no’s with it. Nonetheless, I am very grateful for what I learned from the whole experience.
Published Articles and Blog Posts
Published in Mind Cafe Magazine, Edition 1: Clarity
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12 Attributes of Above Average People – According To Philosophy
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Here’s The Formula For Success
Original Article on The Ascent
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What Being A Paramedic Taught Me About Living, Dying, and What Really Matters
Published by Mind Cafe
Tools For The Frontline Worker: How To Face The Pandemic When Everyone Else Can Stay Home
Published by Better Humans
Your Future Self Will Thank You For What You Start Today
Published on Mind Cafe
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Feeling Their Absence: A Stoic’s Guide To Mourning Those We’ve Lost
Published on Mind Cafe