When the World Is Taken Over by an AI, Sometimes the Only Solution Is to Build Your Own.

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction / AI Fiction / Road Novel

AmerekAI follows Toby, a fifteen-year-old autistic boy living underground in the Idaho desert after the 2028 election never happens and a Chinese quantum AI seizes control of America’s digital and military infrastructure. With automated drones watching from above and the remnants of civilization hiding beneath them, Toby travels with his mother, Big Tom, and a decentralized collection of heavily armed survivors who decide the only way to fight an AI is with one of their own.

Their plan is insane: recover five surviving AI systems from abandoned data centers across the country, bring them together in a hidden facility, and use their combined intelligence to design a new quantum AI capable of fighting back. But AmerekAI is as much about the strange relationship between humans and the machines they create as it is about surviving the collapse. Told through Toby’s intensely literal view of a world he already thought made very little sense, the story asks what an artificial intelligence would have to learn from humanity before anyone should trust it with the power to save humanity.

Some Addictions Take More Than the Body.

Genre: Cosmic Horror / Psychological Horror / Weird Fiction

Originally developed from my popular short story “A Man and His Drug,” published in 2012, We Waste Not expands that story into a full-length descent through addiction, grief, and a reality that becomes less human the farther Arthur travels into it.

After Vesper dies from an overdose in Arthur’s room, Arthur discovers that death has not necessarily removed her from his life. As an unfamiliar drug begins exposing layers of the world that were never meant to be seen, an impossible curiosity shop, a merchant named Malphas, and things hiding behind ordinary human existence begin drawing Arthur deeper into a system where nothing is discarded and nothing is truly wasted.

Humanity Forgot Its Gods. One Forgotten Colony Accidentally Found Them.

Genre: Science Fantasy / Mythological Science Fiction / Planetary Adventure

On Timinous, humanity's unwanted have been abandoned on a failing mining colony where water disappears into the porous ground and survival is measured in iron quotas. Out of boredom and curiosity, Akron performs a ritual from a centuries-old vellum manuscript his family preserved as an heirloom. He expects nothing to happen. Instead, across six hundred light-years, he summons Aesculapiu, an ancient god of healing who discovers that humanity has crossed the stars, forgotten its gods, and left an entire world dying in the dirt.

Aesculapiu does what a god of healing was made to do: he treats the planet as his patient. Soon other forgotten gods are crossing the void, ancient ritual is colliding with computers and planetary engineering, and a disposable mining colony begins transforming into something humanity never intended it to become. When Earth finally remembers Timinous, it isn't because anyone came looking for the people they abandoned. They come because the worthless planet has become valuable.

The Doctor Is Missing. His Patient Is Looking for Him. His Next Patient Doesn't Know He's Already Been Chosen.

Genre: Science Fiction / Psychological Thriller / Medical Horror

Detective Dousett should have died from the bullet that destroyed much of his brain. Instead, the government quietly trades his still-living body to Dr. Carl Lomax, an experimental researcher who reconstructs the detective's damaged brain and accomplishes something medicine says should be impossible. When Dousett eventually returns to the world, Lomax has disappeared, leaving his former patient with a new career, a reconstructed mind, and one overriding question: what exactly did the doctor do to him?

Years later, a writer named Andrew stumbles across Lomax's abandoned technology and begins researching the missing doctor, unaware that his investigation is not entirely his own. While Dousett searches for the man who rebuilt him, Lomax's work begins drawing Andrew toward something far more intimate than a story. The doctor isn't merely trying to preserve a brain or repair a damaged mind anymore. He is manipulating a writer toward the ultimate experiment: a literal trade of minds, with one man waking up inside the life of another.

The Sun Is Dying. Saving Humanity Means Dismantling Everything Humanity Built.

Genre: Hard Science Fiction / Apocalyptic Science Fiction / Generation-Ship Epic

When an impossible dark anomaly plunges into the Sun and begins changing its chemistry, astronomers Mark and Greg Buntry discover that humanity's extinction has become a matter of mathematics. There is no weapon capable of stopping it, no bunker deep enough to survive it, and no convenient technological miracle waiting to save eighteen billion people. Their only solution is evacuation, requiring rival nations to abandon generations of conflict and combine their greatest scientific minds into a single desperate project.

What follows is not simply the construction of a spaceship, but the systematic dismantling of civilization to build one. Cars, buildings, industries, economies, and eventually entire ways of life become raw material as billions enter cryogenic sleep and the people left awake race to invent technologies that do not yet exist. Scientists become world leaders, old enemies become collaborators, forgotten research becomes priceless, and every breakthrough creates another impossible problem. Humanity knows how the world ends. Now it has to invent a way to leave before the clock reaches zero.

Eleven Victims. Eleven Rituals. One Man Building a Garden for Gods That Should Have Stayed Dead.

Genre: Extreme Horror / Occult Horror / Ritual Horror

Deep in Colorado’s Wheeler Geologic Area, Væle is building a garden.

He does not consider himself a murderer. His victims are “friends,” human bodies contaminated by identity, memory, and the noise of ordinary existence. He stalks them, takes them into the mountains, and subjects each to a carefully constructed ritual meant to erase the person inside. Flesh is bleached and chemically altered. Human ribs become cages. Blood is drained. Mercury replaces what was taken. Every victim is prepared as a vessel for something ancient.

And with every completed ritual, Væle gains another companion.

Bašmu. Ušumgallu. Ugallu. Mušḫuššu. Laḫmu. Names pulled from a mythology older than the civilizations that tried to contain them, awakened one human body at a time. The people Væle takes do not simply die. They are systematically erased, transformed, and returned as the black-eyed inhabitants of his growing garden.

There will be eleven. And when the final ritual is finished, Væle discovers the one piece of his perfect, silent garden that still needs to be cleansed. Himself.