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SubStack Launched!

I’m going to posting some essays on my new SubStack. Check it out for some mad ramblings on film, books, writing, and other addictions of mine.

The first article, Cinema as Experience, is avialable now!

Millions of Sea Shells in Phano Magazine #1

Phano Magazine has just lauched its first issue, and I’m proud to be a part of it with my story Millions of Sea Shells.

This light-hearted look at what it would be like to be able to change the one bad decision you thought you made in your life. And it has time-travel, sort of.

New story in Mythaxis Magazine Issue 40

Have you ever stopped to think how easy it would be to do something really bad? How the line that seperates normal actions from sadistic horror is so thin? Crunch Thump Thump is about someone who crosses over and what might happen after.

Check it out in Mythaxis Magazine Issue 40. The publication looks great, and they have included an audio version so you can listen while you drive. Just don’t get any ideas!

CATS Method in Critical Role’s Daggerheart!

It has come to my attention that the playtest for Critical Role’s new RPG Daggerheart suggests players to use my CATS Method to set up their game.

For those not into Tabletop RPGs that sentence will make little sense. For those into TTRPGs, it still probably makes little sense.

Long story short, Daggerheart is a new fantasy RPG game being developed by the team behind the popular live D&D team Critical Role.

The CATS Method is a small idea I had that helps streamline the process of setting expectations at the table before you play a new RPG.

Somehow, the Daggerheart team got wind of my little idea and included a page about in in their playtest. That goes to show they care about laying the groundwork for what players are expecting when they sit down to play their game. Good on them!

Check out Daggerheart, and check out The CATS Method and let me know if it helps any of your sessions!

Medusa Evermore in Bite: A Vampiric Anthology

Do you like vampires? My short story Medusa Evermore – which I would describe as a non-traditional look at an immortal blood-sucker who is tired of it all – can be found in an upcoming anthology.

Be on the lookout for Bite: A Vampiric Anthology, being published December 2024 by Graveside Press.

Fuel for the Fire on Thirteen Podcast

Check out my short story Fuel for the Fire, produced in audio form on the Thirteen Podcast!

Narrated by Nate Du Fort

Editing and sound design by Brooke Jennett

Assistance from Ian Epperson and Bridgett Howard

Life Imitates Robotic Bee Art

Robotic Bees are now a real thing! Knowing that, please check out my story Pollen featured in Future Visions Volume 3, where robotic bees go haywire and try to polinate EVERYTHING.

True Facts About Bats

I am continuing my film-making practice! This time I learned some more about editing and what equipment to get for the next one.

Making movies is fun.

Thanks to Matt Sichel for starring in this while wearing a weird bat hat.

New Fiction in The Back Forty

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My short story Dinner on the Border of Nowhere has been published in the new anthology, The Back Forty, edited by Jessica Augustsson and published by JayHenge Publishing. Check it out and enjoy! I have to say, it’s one of my weirdest ones for sure. No comment on what state I was in when it was written.

Liminal Mario Released!

Now that the official premiere at Austin Micro Film Festival is over, I’m happy to release this here.

Review it on Letterboxd and IMDB!

Watch and Enjoy!