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The Recordings

The Recordings

My day-job is software development and as part of my rite-of-passage to attain that position I had to start a programming blog and write posts about it. For awhile I wrote plain posts doing just that. Vaguely snarky things just going over what I had learned and all that dull jazz. Then I read a series of programming posts called the The Craftsman Articles. I was inspired, which is never a good thing. A devious idea came to my Neraq...

The Upgrade - A Short Science Fiction Story

The Upgrade - A Short Science Fiction Story

I wrote this for a science-fiction magazine, but I was rejected, so here I am posting it here. You can read it and download it as pdf. The Upgrade is a short science fiction story about an Android finding the path to self-actualization.

Confessions of a Shapeshifter: Short Story on Shapeshifting

Confessions of a Shapeshifter: Short Story on Shapeshifting

I was inspired and wrote a first person POV short story set in the same universe as How to Stop Wildfire. Asides from the universe there is not much connecting it. It is basically a monologue from a Shafien. You can read it on Medium or download it here. It is not much but I had fun writing it. The first-person was interesting for me because I usually do not write in it. And the character was someone wholly new...

Short Collection of Thoughts and Stories

Short Collection of Thoughts and Stories

I used to run a blog where I posted random short stories on dreams and the mind. I ran out of time to update it consistently, so I am turning all the posts into a short collection that I am going to offer for free. Right now I am just editing it and cleaning it up. Estimating it to be ready and done within a week to two weeks.