"Maybe tonight we can forget about it all
It could be just like heaven
I am a machine
No longer living, just a shell of what I dreamed"

--"The Fantasy", 30 Seconds To Mars

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Current Inspirations:

Great authors such as Bret Easton Ellis, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Irvine Welsh, William Gibson, Stephen Baxter, Robert Heinlein, and (of course) Frank Herbert. Also, real life, dreams, satire, surrealism, and, of course, other writers' stories on this site that put mine to shame.

-- Update (12/06/06) --

"Slip" is finally up!

Okay, so here's the idea; it's a Sci-Fi short story about time travel, but beyond that it's pretty gritty, even horrific. The story is told by a man I have dubbed "Johnny Pureheart", a prisoner in a the not-too-distant future. His crimes are unspeakable and his demeanor is that of a puckish little boy. He is part of an experiment, as are all his fellow inmates, in which criminals are being sent back to undo the moment in their lives that set the foundation for their future atrocities. His will take him back to a Halloween night years ago (so I suppose you can call this a very belated Halloween story, too)...

Now that "Slip" is done, the TGDGD sequel is once again my main objective. :)

Current Projects:

-- The sequel to "The Gods Dream Green Dreams" in which Thomas takes The Christian's place as the next fanatical assassin. Also, expect to see some stand-alone stories that branch off into other aspects of this story's universe.

-- Revamps & New Chapters of the following; "Chameleon", "Post-Dawn", "Netherworld", and yes, "Sunearth" (Keep your eye on it, Roz!).

-- "The Other Place Series", a new project, possibly my most ambitious yet, revolving around an expansion on my short "The Other Place" that will not only introduce many new stories and characters, but will also link some of my stuff together.

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1. Slip reviews

The DuMacher experiment. Or as some of the inmates call it, The Doom Maker, 'cause once they make you go back, you're gone for good. No more you. At least, not a you that's done whatever wicked crimes the you that's here has.

Complete - Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14,145 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 12-6-06 - Published: 12-6-06

2. The Gods Dream Green Dreams » reviews

"At the top, little gods sleep and dream green dreams. When they wake, they will make the earth anew."

Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Fantasy - Chapters: 9 - Words: 5,940 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 10-1-06 - Published: 8-12-06

3. The Morning After reviews

"I want you somewhere I know you're safe."

Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 789 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-28-06 - Published: 9-28-06

4. Stream of Losing Consciousness reviews

"You're their favorite tragic ending."

General - Fiction Rated: M - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 902 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-24-06 - Published: 8-24-06

5. Storm Drain Mermaid reviews

A girl who believes in the story of "The Little Mermaid" commits suicide and her twin brother is left with half a world to live in.

General - Fiction Rated: M - English - Tragedy/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,032 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-8-06 - Published: 8-8-06

6. Happily Ever After High School reviews

Don't change. (A companion piece, and possible prequel?, to The Other Side of Whatever Happened To)

General - Fiction Rated: M - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 962 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-27-06 - Published: 3-27-06

7. The Other Side of Whatever Happened To? reviews

You say man he's really changed like it's a bad thing.

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,172 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 3-1-06 - Published: 3-1-06

8. Chameleon » reviews

BEING REVAMPED. Conspiracies shape and threaten a society of technology, depravity, and androgyny.

Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: M - English - Suspense - Chapters: 4 - Words: 7,370 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 1-13-06 - Published: 12-17-05

9. PostDawn » reviews

BEING REVAMPED. Teens deal with life as lowgrades in a world entering the dawn of posthumanity.

Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: M - English - General - Chapters: 4 - Words: 5,993 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 1-9-06 - Published: 11-30-05

10. Netherworld » reviews

BEING REVAMPED. Machinist A180321 wants to escape.

Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: M - English - Suspense - Chapters: 3 - Words: 11,576 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-3-06 - Published: 1-3-06

11. Purgatory reviews

"...'And men love darkness rather than light'..."

Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Suspense/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,998 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-6-05 - Published: 11-6-05

12. Sunearth » reviews

BEING REVAMPED. A water gatherer, a Green Man, and a Kanyen set out to find the Forest By the Water.

Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 14,606 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-17-05 - Published: 10-15-05

13. Hunting Dogs reviews

'He had been lured here, he knew, but the reason why had not yet revealed itself. Perhaps, the young man supposed, he was just creating a kind of purpose of meaning within himself.'

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,097 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-7-05 - Published: 9-7-05

14. Perchance reviews

'Love, like everything else, was just a tragedy of real life.'

Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,542 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-20-05 - Published: 7-20-05

15. Submerse Love Is Water That Will Drown Us reviews

'For those who have and who shall be taken into the selfish maws of my love-ridden abyss.'

Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-14-05 - Published: 7-14-05

16. Last Love The Affair at the End of the World reviews

'In a dim-lit room, elevated from reality at the end of the world, they share their unplanned love.'

Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-14-05 - Published: 7-14-05

17. Alone Together reviews

'Everywhere I could feel the ghosts of forgotten lives and moments of happiness and safety which were now lost and consumed by the uncaring sickness'

Horror - Fiction Rated: M - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,389 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-5-05 - Published: 6-5-05

18. In the Arms of Sleep reviews

'In truth, I hated girls like her and yet there she was every night in my dreams, taking me from one fantastic and strange place to the next. I couldn't understand why.'

Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,132 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-21-05 - Published: 5-21-05

19. Return to Descent reviews

'God himself could have commanded that I take pity on the nasty, foul little wraith and I would have spit in the holy father's celestial face and done the thing in good and bloody.'

Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 485 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-21-05 - Published: 5-21-05

20. The Dark Time reviews

'Every night came the monsters and I loved how they, like, clawed at me and I bled and shrieked in joy.'

Horror - Fiction Rated: M - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,740 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-30-05 - Published: 4-30-05

21. queen euthanasia reviews

a matriarch of a dying kingdom is visited by a messanger of her brother with whom she is at war with. the messanger is death. something not quite a poem, not quite a song.

Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 621 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-2-05 - Published: 3-2-05

22. The Final Moments reviews

'We are all typos in God's great and unfinished story. We will not survive the editing.'

Horror - Fiction Rated: M - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,355 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-28-04 - Published: 10-28-04

23. The Other Place reviews

'I'm not here at all, not really. I'm just passing through. Just inbetween dreams.' Undertones of the Lovecraft mythos. NEW & IMPROVED.

Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,143 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-26-04 - Published: 10-26-04

24. Towards the Red Sky reviews

'Beside him there was a gun, idle now but recently used. He wasn't the type to use weapons, but earlier events had pushed him to using it.'

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,204 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 4-23-04 - Published: 4-23-04

25. The Watcher's Way reviews

'Above me I could feel the presence of some demonic deviant, spying me from places unseen by my eyes. It was watching me and... it was angry.'

Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,730 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-17-04 - Published: 4-17-04

26. Drowning In Air reviews

'This was where he belonged. Here, in the vast waters, he was whole.'

General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 782 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-2-04 - Published: 4-2-04

27. The Ivory Above reviews

'Done up in a suit on my way to my girlfriend's services, I looked ready for burial myself.'

Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,524 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-16-04 - Published: 3-16-04

28. Forever In This Hole reviews

'So is this Hell? To live on forever in this hole, with only the desire to die'

Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,183 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-27-04 - Published: 2-27-04

29. A Moment of Clarity reviews

'There's no gun in your hand. There's no dead body lying on the floor. You're not covered in blood. You're not screaming. You are not here.' Homage to "Memento".

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Suspense/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,712 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-22-04 - Published: 2-22-04

30. He Controls the Shadows reviews

"He controls the shadows," they said to one another. And he could. The darkness was his to bend and shape and he wanted to let it loose. Today was the day he finally would.

Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,337 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 2-6-04 - Published: 2-6-04

31. Back of the Bus reviews

'Every once in a while, I prayed for some kind of vehicular accident. In my mind, I would imagine the bus colliding into a passing car and exploding or hitting a pothole and tipping to it's side, then tumbling down some ravine.'

Horror - Fiction Rated: M - English - Supernatural/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,231 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 2-5-04 - Published: 2-5-04

32. Filler reviews

A song about finding self-worth given to you in a bizarre, sci-fi undertone. Watch as the machine becomes man...

Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 300 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-30-04 - Published: 1-30-04

33. The River of Birth and Blood reviews

'They look like newborn babies of some nameless race from across the stars.'

Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 405 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 12-5-03 - Published: 12-5-03

34. The Nameless reviews

"Do you know the Tale of the Nameless"

Horror - Fiction Rated: M - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 493 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-25-03 - Published: 10-25-03

35. Going Numb reviews

"That's right, Johnny boy. The world's changing and so are you. I'm just wondering which one of you will end first.". Reckless's face twisted into insane joy. "I must say though, I suspect the latter."

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,128 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-10-03 - Published: 9-10-03

36. In the Basement reviews

'I can only assume the world is a terrible place.'

Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,837 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-1-03 - Published: 7-1-03

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