Bleak Stories

The sea is calling and she must go. *** An accomplished novelist returns to her hometown to seek closure for the childhood memories that have haunted her for her entire...

The original serialized form of Charles Dickens's Bleak House novel. Original serial cover illustration by H.K. Browne. Audiobook files posted at the beginning of each c...

i can feel it all begin to fade ﾟ☆ [circa late 2020]

Donatello didn't know what to expect. One moment, he's wishing his family and his girlfriend goodnight, the next he's waking up in a desolate and unfamiliar place. His h...

The house fell empty, only the sound of leather boots creaking against the hard wood floors echoed through the complete darkness. Abraham stood above his "father&qu...

Malia Beckett, a stubborn werewolf with a big heart, moves to a new pack to help her underperforming sister care for her children. While transitioning into her new life...

pour, pour, pour i'm just here to pour my heart out. write till my finger's weak write 'til my fingers bleed.

This Gothic, Romantic take on Alice in Wonderland follows a young and excitable youth named Ascelan Keir. After following his best friend Alice down the wrong rabbit hol...

How did you expect the world to end? An asteroid, global warming, a solar flare, nuclear war, or an EMP? Either way, you'd probably be just as ill-prepared for the end o...

Ian, a technician living in complete isolation in a cave in the middle of the desert, had fixed his phone. But for his phone to be useable, he needs to take it to the ca...

Something I wrote years ago. Just came to me during a stroke of inspiration. Image courtesy of Unsplash.com and https://unsplash.com/@davide_pietralunga If anyone's int...

"The Complaining Man" is a powerful and moving poem that explores the feelings of a man who is struggling to be accepted by society. The man expresses his feel...

It's been 20 years since the disappearance of the light Ifrit Elsharion; 20 years since the dark Ifrit Veromos wiped out all of humanity. There was no hope for the human...

Poem I made.

A haiku about how I feel in life at the moment.

Life's contrasts, loss, depression, love, new life, all for what? Experience can be the only answer.

A Nation is reborn. The Dissidents, Extremists, and other Enemies have been swept away. The Second Founding has brought peace and prosperity to the nation. Ethan was onl...

My head is a crazy place...

The narration of a world denied of life by the cosmos. The traveller, however, finds it futile to offer sympathy to the stillborn land