My fiction projects are works in progress. They can be novels, short stories, essays, etc. They may be intended for publication, or to be placed on this website. Each project has its working title (not the final title), a synopsis, progress bar, date of creation, and maybe some excerpts. It's nice for me to see how fast/slow I'm going, and it may be interesting for you. Enjoy.




In the future, the Earth has been remade. Due to violent climate changes, no place is left unaffected, and people are still coming to grips with a new way of life. Technology is booming and the rich are getting richer while the poor stay very poor. It is a gilded age. Morgan Blithe lives an unglamorous life making ends meet after she leaves the Inette Group. She's happy to stay as far away from her past as possible, until someone from her past finds out that she's still alive and well. Now, suddenly, Morgan finds herself on the run from the government and to make matters worse, she's got a Chicago cop as a hostage and she's helping two fugitives as well! And her only hope may be on an abandoned space station orbiting Earth.

Author's Notes: This is one of my most intense projects. The idea originally came to me a year ago, and I've been tinkering with it ever since. However, when NANOWRIMO 2006 came along, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to try and start the story. After NANOWRIMO, I began re-writing a lot of it since my ideas had changed drastically. I would love to see this work some day published into a novel! You can read all the posts I've made about "Morgan" by clicking here.

Began: Nov. 2006

Morgan Progress %  100,021 / 150,000   67%

Humanity has come to accept that they are not the only ones in the world, they must share Earth with beings that were thought to only be from myth and legend. Tayce is one of these mythical beings. She's a golem that's so perfectly made she looks and feels and acts human. And she's already broken one law of magic, she's created another golem like her to keep her company through the years: Cotter, who can shapeshift into a dog. She lectures part-time at the local university and is content to live a quiet life with Cotter and keep her golem origins a secret. But, when the government starts pounding on her door and mysterious murders start happening, Tayce must decide if she should ignore them or tell what she knows: that the killer may not be human.

Author's Notes: Bah! I suck at writing a synopsis. Well, Tayce was my Nanowrimo 2007. I was surprised how much I could take from this idea. It has a fully formed world and society, and it's technically an "alternate history" mixed with an "urban fantasy." Before I had never thought to write a story with vampires and werewolves in them. Leave it to everyone else, I thought. But who knew it would be so much fun? You can read all the blog posts I've made regarding "Tayce" by clicking here.

Began: Nov. 2007

Tayce Progress %  43,527 / 90,000   48%