Crooked: Volume 1

Crooked: Volume 1

Remember that thing I told you about in July that I couldn’t tell you about? No longer!  Earlier this year, I joined a story anthology with a space crime theme. What’s space crime? For me it’s about bounty hunters, gangsters, bank heists, and con...
Know Your Badlands Better: Curdy’s Grocery

Know Your Badlands Better: Curdy’s Grocery

In Badlands Born, the crew gather their supplies from Curdy’s Grocery, Jasmine’s childhood grocery store. The fictional store blends two places from my youth: an old Wisconsin tavern on Highway 13 and a neighborhood grocery store two towns over. They’ve always stuck...

Coyote

Coyote by Allen Steele The Coyote stories were originally short stories published in sci-fi pulp magazines about a colony of political prisoners who steal a colony spaceship and settle on the titular planet. Several series of unfortunate events occur, such as one of...
I was wrong about Loki, but I’m not sorry.

I was wrong about Loki, but I’m not sorry.

Ocean’s Eleven, The Sting, American Gods. I love a good con story, and I was hoping Loki would deliver something similar. A good con story at its heart a magic trick, a story within a story that fools you, then shows you how it was done. The character of Loki is...