Displaying all my prose work for 2024 in one place:
The future belongs to the insane. This is how they take it. They are mad geniuses, paranoid superlawyers, and satanic scientists. They are the Platinum Donkeys — too stubborn to quit, too excellent to fail — and they have chosen psychotic little Maggie to be their queen. Will she take over the world by their side? Or will she stop the Donkeys and their doomsday weapons to save her fans and the world that fears her?
Aliens came to Earth and offered us all immortality. Most humans took it and left for the stars. Eli and Suna stayed. They wander a nearly empty Chicago, seeking their own meaning and purpose, dodging teleporting billiard balls, and parleying with the King of Chicago and his army of pterodactyl-riding orphans.
Hilarious, weird, and deeply philosophical, One Reason To Live is a high concept sci-fi epic about immortality and the meaning of humanity.
On a newly settled world, a thirteen-year-old finds a pair of gravity boots and becomes the wall-walking thief known as Wally. But then aliens land, and raise the specter of a secret totalitarian plan.
If the Dark Colony plan activates, Wally and his friends are doomed. If negotiations fail, the aliens will destroy the colony and wage war with Earth. Wally needs to sneak, jump, and think his way through all of this, when all he wanted was three meals a day.
For her first year of criminology studies at CalState, Nita Javierez has to untangle the riddle of a cabal of fish-men, how to measure non-euclidean objects, and the creepy occult studies professor named Chipper who is always smiling. Is Chipper connected to the bodies washing up on the California coast with eldritch symbols carved into their flesh? Is someone performing a ritual to summon an otherworldly god? And most important, will Chipper agree to be her college advisor?
