The Squid's Ink


  • The Lookout

    This short is a chunk of a bigger project I’m working on. Sort of an anthology that tells smaller stories around the central events of the longest D&D game I ever ran. Still experimenting, and I cut a lot before posting – it’s too easy to ramble on this topic. Expect to see this revised…

  • Oops. New Shorts.

    I made the call a while back to keep some things exclusive to my Patreon and some things as early access to later show up here. Recently realized I’d been remembering to post short stories to Patreon, but NOT to also put them up here once the early access period was done. Oops. So two…

  • Shot in the Dark

     “So you can get rid of other people’s ghosts, but not me?” griped Frank in a tone that would sound like he was grinding his teeth, if he had any. “Shut up, Frank,” hissed Kat. “We talked about this. Not at my fucking job.” Kat was waiting in the mid-sized but lavishly decorated lobby of the…

  • The Nightmare Patient

    Wenzi had only just taken her shoes off to sit down when an emergency-coded call came in on her personal radio frequency. “Doctor Wenzi, this is Doctor Braddock, please come in. Urgent.” Wenzi looked around her apartment, regretfully taking it in. She hadn’t had time to appreciate her old fashioned, delicate yet cozy home recently.…

  • Welcome to Ravenshore

    The very short first chapter of a novel goes live on my Patreon tomorrow! Ravenshore’s Nightmare follows Kat, a P.I. who works with ghosts, spirits, and dreams in a black city surrounded by fog and eternal storm. She’s haunted by a ghost trapped in her revolver and by a nightmare that’s already killed her once,…

  • Patreon live!

    I’ve launched my Patreon page! Monthly shorts and weekly novel chapters will be free after a one month exclusivity period for subscribers. Weekly minis and 18+ stories are subscriber exclusives. I have ideas on how to expand, if things go well. Check out the page here!

  • Patreon incoming

    I am working on setting up a Patreon! Partly to actually do something with my writing rather than have it sit on a hard drive. Partly to force myself into a bit of a structure for regular updates and variety, rather than just working on whatever I feel like working on. And, of course, partly…

  • Starfall

    With a large edit pass on my fantasy Western complete, and the book series I was reading also complete, it’s finally time to move to a new project (and figure out what to do with that Western draft later). It’s gonna take a lot of work though. “Starfall” was originally going to be my ultimate…

  • Western second draft, banner

    After a lot more hours of work, plenty of additions, and basically no cuts because I don’t know how to, I’ve finished a major revision of my fantasy Western in an ice age environment. Ended up at just over 100k words, which surprised me because I thought I’d added a lot and forgot it was…

  • Update season

    Been a while since last progress report. Here we go. I think I said another edit run of my novel trilogy was finished, but in case I didn’t, well, there it is. I had started an edit of my fantasy Western novel, and thought it was going well, but changed my mind. That stalled for…

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