First I see Silas. But now it’s not just his eyes that are many-colored. His whole body is iridescent. The gleaming, swirling colors have spread from his irises to his skin, drenching him in a wet, metallic sheen of the spectrum. He looks somehow liquid, as if I could dip my fingers into him and…
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Writer, explorer, and keeper of Alder the dog.
Porous, Chapter Five: Haunted
First of all, allow me to say that it’s somewhat unbelievable how far this story has come from its humble beginnings as a forgotten passage in a lost folder on my hard drive. Every chapter is a revelation for me as well as for you, and every suggestion I get from my readers is incredibly…
Read MorePorous, Chapter Four: Oil-Slick Colors
“How do you like your new wilderness group?” “I really like them. Well, not all of them. But Paul is great – he’s new, you might not have met him yet. He’s really funny. And I like Clara, too, although she’s a little bit stiff.” “Stiff?” “She’s hard to talk to. She can be very…
Read MoreAmbition & Abandonment
2014 really started out with a bang. My debut novel, The Sowing, has been doing great on Amazon and other online retailers. I finished writing the first draft of the second book in the trilogy, The Reaping, in late December. I’m working on a novella set in the same world, from a different character’s perspective, TBR in…
Read MorePorous, Chapter Three: The Blackness In Between The Stars
This is the third chapter of my reader-driven blog serial, Porous. If you need to catch up, go back to Chapter One: Immolation or Chapter Two: Sky-Honey. The Blackness In Between The Stars “Kawai, you will have to learn to sleep without the light on sometime.” “Another night, kasaan. I want the lights on tonight.” My mother…
Read MoreAuthor Interview: Drew Chial
Please welcome Drew Chial to the Z-Axis. I’ve admired Drew’s work for a long time, notably for his incredibly in-depth and passionate blog posts exhorting writers to originality and creativity. Drew is an author, graphic artist, aspiring voice actor, and a musician living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He writes short stories that he bills as Twilight Zone fan…
Read MoreWorking Title: Porous, Chapter 2
This week’s installment of the reader-driven blog serial, Porous. If you haven’t read the first chapter, please click here. Sky-Honey Flakes of snow curl around me like yesterday’s flames. They’re as puffy as clouds, as wet as Kuri’s tongue lapping at my cheeks. They drip from the sky in great empty breaths. I brush them out…
Read MoreAuthor Interview: Matthew Wayne Selznick
Please welcome Matthew Wayne Selznick to the Z-Axis. Matt is an author, creator, and creative services provider living in Long Beach, California. He’s the creator of the popular Sovereign Era storyworld, the free fantasy serial Walk Like A Stranger: Passing Through Home, and Reading The Amazing Spider-Man Volume One, among many other books, short stories,…
Read MoreIn Memoriam
This draft has been floating around for about nine months. I’m not sure, even now, that I’m making the right decision by publishing it. It’s raw and it’s painful and there’s no right way for me to say the things I want to say. This may even be offensive or hurtful to some. I don’t…
Read MoreWorking Title: Porous, Chapter 1
This is the first chapter of the story that resulted from all the amazing feedback I got from the prompt I posted on Friday. I’d love for you to read it and tell me what you think. Immolation Petrol. Chemical. The sweet scent of gasoline that burns the back of your throat. Slick on my…
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