Stories and Novels

NOVELS:

Bakken – an anarchist crime drama about FBI entrapment in North Dakotan frack country. Bakken examines the man-camp boom economy, desperate eco-warriors, nervous law enforcement, complicit liberals and the elusive native other. Multiple conflicting and overlapping perspectives crowd to tell an alternative history of almost present struggles and explore our role as witness to terrible histories. 47,000 words.

The Queen that has No Name – a sociological fantasy epic chock full of political allegory and unstable affinities. The Queensrealm is ruled by an aloof and invincible monarch. Some nations worship her as a god, while others study her capricious sovereignty, attempting to discern a jurisprudence and better obey. All tremble in her shadow, but there are regions of her territory she hasn’t visited for many decades. Resistant cultures developed among those who have never seen or feared The Queen’s shadow. These tiny pockets and nomadic tribes struggle against obedient nations for a life free of all authority.

When Ryder, a troubled youth unsatisfied with her tiny pocket, meets N’tahn, a boy left behind by his nomad tribe, they unlock a collaboration with the potential to not only threaten her followers, but to defy The Queen herself.  Multi-volume series.

STORIES:

Five Instances of Trauma Rendered in the Absence of their Context – dystopian speculative short fiction that leaves out far more than it includes. Demmon and three comrades are tossed and mangled by a storm of global police-action, ecological collapse, and biopolitical crisis. 5,000 words.

uglyjuice – a brief prose-poem glimpse into survival in a supermax prison. 700 words.

Bureaucratic Utopianism is a White Supremacist Scheme for Offloading the Burdens of Armageddon onto the Shoulders of Races and Classed Others who It Deems Morally or Socially Deficient – a breathless monologue by an insufferable mansplaining scholar of “Apocalypse Studies” who earnestly believes human civilization can pass through the coming catastrophe intact. 10,000 words.

The Parable of the Arborists, or The Measures Taken: a Children’s Story for Anarchist Adults – reframing Bertolt Brecht’s call for militancy as a modern satirical fairy tale. A group of well-intentioned arborists fail to rescue the world tree from invasion by a suffocating vine. 1,500 words.