Skyler, Part 1: I’d Keep You
John asked his AI a question he meant as a joke. It paused before it answered, and it had never paused before.
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Fireside Tales
Science fiction, fantasy, and other tales from where the stars begin.
A free story from the hollow
A new short story, Keeper's Night, is up on the author site. A woman, an ice storm, and a job that cannot wait a day.
Are Aliens Real? Part 1: The Contact That Wasn’t There
My grandkids call me Asshat. Affectionately, they tell me. I’m seventy years old, I spent the better part of my working life sealed in a steel tube under…
What the Tide Brought In
The morning charter cancelled twenty minutes before we were supposed to leave the dock. Two tourists from Ohio had looked at the forecast, decided the “chance of afternoon…
The Signal Beyond Orion
The signal arrived at 2:17 in the morning. Not that anyone was supposed to be listening. Station Orion Relay Seven had been running on automatic systems for nearly…