This is a scene snippet and a draft scene focusing on Ory’s storyline. Both are part of Act II. The scene-snippet is a teaser of some intrigue between Kalindi, the Executive Office who is stepping down, and Dardános, the current front-runner in the election to replace her. The draft scene takes place shortly afterward, with…
Breakfast the next morning was a groggy, gloomy affair. Neither of them had slept well. Friste had tossed and turned, and Adelka woke with each of his movements, worried about him and ready to talk if he wanted to talk. But he didn’t, and he didn’t talk through breakfast either. He just read the news…
Two men climbed a desert peak. The peak stood out lonely, tall, and majestic from far away. Even so, it was a worn version of its former self, its slopes weathered away, leaving behind only the neck of the volcano it had been millions of years before now. Two men climbed a desert peak, starting…
This scene will be toward the end of Act I for the Javier and Mētis story. It is a cross between a world-building essay and working on writing dialogue. Javier is an Earth tween who has been convinced by Mētis to live on a village ship. Javier was forced to leave his grandfather’s farmstead on…
Aboard a ship orbiting a moon that is itself orbiting a planet, a man basks in his quiet accomplishments. Before he joined, Sciencia Liberum was a tiny, plodding, risk-averse organization whose operatives dropped subtle hints to the natives below regarding how they could improve their lives through science and technology. It advanced the cause, but…
At the end of the line, Ory’s tray had a mug of jai, a bread roll, a green salad with cherry tomatoes and cucumber, and protein-rich, yeast soup. He saw Bella with her friends at a far table. She caught his eye and smiled, but then turned back to listen to their conversation. He took…
I’ve posted a world-building essay for Patrons on my Patreon site. Here’s a teaser: “Just a hec.” Wait, how long is that? A hectoSecond is 100 seconds. That’s nearly two minutes. Did you know that a “moment” is 90 seconds? The people of the System Compact use a metric time in which the basic time…
The bulk of humanity had lived beyond the pull of Earth’s gravity for generations now. Taking advantage of asteroid mining, they concocted and constructed village ships orbiting the sun hidden among the asteroids. Inside these village ships, rarely seeing the sun themselves, they created spaces for life to continue after the collapse and quarantine of…
Hello from my writing desk! I thought I would tell you about my plan for the “grand opening” in August. We’ll start with some teaser early scenes from what I hope to be novel- or novella-length pieces and one from a short story that I hope to finish this summer and post by the end…
Welcome to my website!Here I share my writing process by posting first-draft scenes of the various stories I am working on. They are organized by story but may well be posted out of order. In addition, the working titles may well be simply named after the major characters of the story. When I have a…
