Category: Shorts

Original short stories, probably based in the shared world I’ve been working on for many years

  • Changing Fortunes

    Friends in a fortune teller club all see real, provable visions of the future for the first time… except for Julie Brooks.

  • Radio Counterspell

    A radio host is actually the station’s arcane security expert – and in the midst of scry attacks, another station wants his contract.

  • A Gallery of Hundreds

    Piper doesn’t want to move out of Ravenshore. Her only problem: a few thousand centipedes and their representative spirit.

  • The Burnwillows

    Duncan isn’t a hunter and doesn’t want to be. He may not have a choice.

  • Revolver Recurring

    I wrote this story for a contest. Well, it was the idea for a story I wanted to write, and I squeezed in some references to the contest prompt – which means I didn’t win, get published, or get mentioned, because that’s not really the best way to approach a contest. Anyway, it was a…

  • Lost Witness

    Quick note: this takes place after Ravenshore’s Antimagic, the novel which has just started going up as chapters. I didn’t really think about that until right now as I’m writing this post and thinking why? Why did I do that? Well, you’ve been warned, I guess. Contains spoilers for the end of Ravenshore’s Antimagic. — Justiciar Radiant…

  • A Flock of Seagulls

    “Do you like my hat?” Rick asked. The stranger gasped. “That huge raccoon just talked!” Their little group hurried away, disappearing into the nightly fog. “Wow, rude,” said Rick. He touched both paws to his furry belly and hoped the human was only comparing his height to a normal raccoon. It was true he’d gained…

  • Ghost in the Smell

    This is another prequel to Ravenshore’s Nightmare, set about three years earlier. The novel mentions an incident with detective Bollart and a sewer elemental a couple of times – so here it is! ___ “You’re godsdamn lucky you can’t smell this, Frank,” Kat said to her gun, fighting and coughing to control her gag reflex.…

  • Reflections of a Supervillain

    Something a little different for this month’s short. I wrote this story in 2010 for a creative writing class. It went through a group critique and a couple of revisions, but otherwise has not been touched since March 2010. I’m putting it up here, completely unchanged, before even re-reading it myself, to look at and…

  • 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…