Severed Dreams (novel)

Summary: Six outcasts struggle to face their demons and work together in order to stop a galactic civil war.

Current Status:  Final rewrites.

9th Ward (short story)

Summary:  A hurricane victim tries to survive a supernatural collision of past and future New Orleans.

Published:  The Midnight Diner (April 2009).

City of Refuge (short story)

Summary:  A prophet accused of murder is transported across a post-apocalyptic America to a stronghold controlled by the Catholic Church.

Current Status:  Under review for the Nick Cave Anthology.

Communicating With The Dead (flash)

Summary: A husband tries to communicate with his wife after she’s been infected with a deadly toxin.

Current Status: Under review at Shock Totem.

Ghost in the Machine (short story)

Summary:  Supporters of a covert government mind control program get more than they bargained for when surveillance techniques are turned against them.

Current Status:  Under review at Apex Magazine and Weird Tales.

We Interrupt This Program (short story)

Summary:  A series of Election Day bombings force a cable news director to chose between his family and country.

Current Status: Under review at Shimmer.

Zombie Nation (short story)

Summary: A plague of self-interest and apathy threatens to bring the world to the brink of war as a virus spreads across Africa.

Current Status: Under review at Murky Depths.

Henry V (stage adaptation)

Summary: Shakespeare’s greatest war story adapted as an interactive play.

Current Status: Early Draft.

William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people.

John Kennedy
Rice University Speech

I’m a big fan of stubborn determination and great fiction, so it’s nice to see both coming together in a new issue of Apex Magazine.  After moving the magazine from print to the web, Jason Sizemore put it on temporary hiatus.  The break turned out to be a short one and the magazine is back with a new business model.  You can now read downloadable, print, and online (donation friendly) editions.  Go check it out.