Ashes of a Saint
A Franciscan archivist discovers the private diary of a canonized saint — revealing she was an atheist who loved a nun and chose fire over a life built on lies.
Category: Writing (Page 37)
FictionThe Zero-Gravity Circus
A retired acrobat with two blown knees launches the first circus in space aboard an orbital station — and a disastrous opening night becomes the most-watched live event in human history.
FictionThe Ballad of Route 66
When her van breaks down in Delmore, Oklahoma — population 43 — a travel writer discovers the last original town on Route 66 and the people who refused to leave when America moved on.
FictionDinner with the Devil’s Lawyer
A bored contracts lawyer is invited to dinner by a dying woman who represents clients with supernatural contracts — deals signed with entities that aren't human and don't forgive breach of terms.
FictionThe Boy Who Owned the Wind
Born with the ability to command the wind, Idris protects his village until a merchant prince conscripts his gift for commerce — and the wind begins to forget him.
FictionBlood on the Snow, Fire on the Ice
An ice analyst survives a helicopter crash in the Arctic and discovers her employer delayed rescue for six hours to retrieve proprietary data from something anomalous beneath the ice.
FictionThe Fisherman’s War
An aging Icelandic fisherman takes his eighty-ton boat against the Royal Navy during the 1958 Cod War, armed with nothing but stubbornness and the conviction that the fish belong to Iceland.
FictionLove in the Algorithm Age
After 2,347 algorithmically perfect matches and zero sparks, Petra Voss meets a Luddite sound engineer in a hardware store who builds theremins and doesn't own a phone.
FictionA Bullet for the President’s Ghost
A Secret Service agent is contacted by the ghost of President William Henry Harrison, who warns him of a 200-year assassination cycle targeting the incoming president.
FictionThe Girl Who Hated Miracles
Rosalind can heal anyone she touches, but every miracle ages her body by years. When a school fire traps twenty-three children, she faces the cost of the only gift she never wanted.
FictionDead Letter Office, 1923 (Version 2)
A postal clerk in 1920s New York discovers a letter that shouldn't exist — addressed from the dead to the living — and gets recruited into a shadow office that delivers mail between worlds.
FictionThe Pianist of Titan | A Science Fiction Short Story
A spy posing as a pianist on Saturn's moon discovers alien contact data hidden beneath the methane seas — and chooses to play one last concert while burning her cover forever.