August 19
& other short stories
August 19
& other short stories
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& other short stories
Making contact with the dead is usually done to see if a loved one is at peace or to placate an angry spirit. But not so for August 19. Contracted by various agencies, he must extract the seemingly unextractable data stored in the soul of a recently departed. Utilizing his talent for communicating with the dead and the mummified remains of an enslaved spirit, August enters into the ether of limbo to pry secrets loose from death itself.
AUGUST 19 & other short stories delves into themes of supernatural cyberpunk, survival in post-apocalyptic Hawaii, the relationship between AI and its human creator, and the unbearable weight of guilt.
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TAU OPENGA
TAU OPENGA
Te is a man beaten down by life. His poor judgement cost him his crew and his love. Now the walls of age are threatening to close off any hope of rising above the fray. But Te’s luck may have just changed. He finds a frightened rag of a child who is wanted by every major player in the system, including the dreaded Ngariki Clan. Putting his cold fear of the Clan aside, Te absconds with the boy and begins an odyssey of discovery that challenges him to overcome his more base nature and become the man he was supposed to be.
TE KORE
TE KORE
The world is a mess of unfulfilled lives and opaque authority. Bibi, ruthless and beguiling, sells corporate dirt in the hopes of one day rising above the fray. An aging scientist, Ethan, uses those secrets to enact his plan to save humanity by destroying it. Thrust into the forefront is Kai, Ethan’s nephew, who is heir to their family’s terrible burden, a threat unlike anything humans have faced before. Held captive by a Polynesian terrorist cell, Kai initially refuses to believe the horrific tale in his ancestor’s journal. But as the world around him crumbles, Kai is forced to not only embrace his captors, but also acknowledge the truth behind his family’s secret–something not of this world is coming and it is not pleased.
G. A. Lodise once beat up Jane Fonda’s son Troy. But they were both toddlers so it’s not like it was anything personal. On one side the descendant of Jacobite leader John Hardeman—who would be banished to the Colonies for his role in the rebellion thus setting in motion a family tree that would participate in every American conflict from the French Indian War forward, lead the largest wagon train on the Oregon Trail, and become the first governor of California (not a fantastic guy, actually, but notable)—and on the other side the great-grandchild of an Italian immigrant who fled WWI only to end up also fleeing Philadelphia after nearly killing a violent, bullying Scotch-Irish foreman at a shoe factory and finding peace cutting ice in the lakes near Jackson, Michigan, Genesis feels less compelled to stir up trouble as he does write about it.
The self-published author of a brace of speculative fiction novels focused on the Polynesian diaspora to other worlds and a collection of short stories, as well as numerous press releases and interviews with science and technology innovators from across the globe for the U.S. Department of State, he is fascinated by the collision of different worlds and the downstream effects on the lives of sometimes not-so-ordinary people. Having lived on both coasts and Hawai’i, he returned in 2022 with his family to Michigan to give the Midwest a try. It’s cold.
His writing has appeared in Hackwriters and the upcoming zine Ouroboros from Capital Letters Eclectic Fiction.
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