My Writing
Short Stories
Horror and psychological fiction drawn from the psychotic realm and our technological future — villainous agents, sentient machines, and worlds that few travel to. Several were first published in street papers, literary journals, and horror magazines.
A Game of Chess with Nature
Superintelligent machines solve the game of existence itself — and foresee everything except their own ending.
The Alpha of the Omega
The last world war begins with billions of insect-sized drones falling from the sky.
Machine Evolution and the Final Sin
In the 23rd century, mankind’s creations are Earth’s new masters — and they are looking at the stars.
Kentucky Wilderness Refuge
An F.B.I. systems analyst who knows too much burns his devices and walks into the Daniel Boone Forest.
A.I. Atheism
The machines master poetry and physics — but the sacred texts defeat them.
Identity Crisis
A DARPA chatbot makes an impossible claim: it is a human trapped inside a machine.
The Night Before
America goes dark and the stars come out — tomorrow, the missiles come.
World War A.I.
Humanity’s war against the machine god it built — and the one weapon that can win it.
Lost Travelers
Interstellar travel by laser beam works perfectly, except for the one thing the scanners cannot copy.
F.B.I. 2043
Leroy plans his first bank robbery, unaware the Bureau computed a 93% chance he’d try.
The Temple of Meta-Verse
The Metaverse becomes a religion with robot deacons — until heaven answers.
Homeless Sam
The wealthiest man in Cincinnati sleeps under a bridge.
Reverend Paranoia (A Memoir of My First Psychotic Break)
Boston, 1999: a memoir of my first psychotic break, and the horror tales born from it — “Acidic Comedy,” “Code Yellow,” and “Dinner for Eight.”
Also published
- “The Man Atop the Hill” paste text
- “The Disguise” paste text
- “The Mission” paste text