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WRONG DIRECTION is now available for free download!
It’s Alvaro’s last year of college. He’s scored one of the coveted singles, but has to share a bathroom with the slob next door. As if the piles of moldy towels weren’t enough, Daniel is in the habit of nightly bubble baths. And he likes to sing. Off-key. Challenging his right to a stress-free senior year isn’t going to go as smoothly as Alvaro would like, however. Written for the Don’t Read in the Closet event “Love is an Open Road”, hosted by the M/M Romance group, WRONG DIRECTION is now available for download in your preferred format.
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A new Chaos Station story for newsletter subscribers!
Zander and Felix shared their first kiss the day they graduated from Shepard Academy. They had one night together before being separated by specialist training and their first assignments with the AEF. “Graduation” tells the story of that night.“Graduation” is available to read now or download. To get your copy, subscribe to our newsletter and receive occasional updates regarding new releases, short stories, excerpts and giveaways.
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Flash Fiction
On my travels around the internet I often stumble across photographs that tell a story. Sometimes it’s a single moment, one I can capture in a few hundred words. More often I’m really only telling part of the story–what brought the character(s) to this point, or what’s happening right now. These snippets end up in my Big Book of Ideas, and one day I hope to expand on a few of them. The others, the single moments, stand as they are.
Here, I’m sharing one of each. A story I feel is a complete moment, and one that is a slice of something much bigger. There’s more story to both, of course, but in the first case, I believe the moment I’ve captured–or more accurately, remembered on behalf of my narrator–tells more than everything that might have come before.
Read on...
Here, I’m sharing one of each. A story I feel is a complete moment, and one that is a slice of something much bigger. There’s more story to both, of course, but in the first case, I believe the moment I’ve captured–or more accurately, remembered on behalf of my narrator–tells more than everything that might have come before.
Read on...
Therapy
It’s been a month since the release of Phase Shift. We miss our guys, but we’re working on new stories with new characters we hope you’ll come to love just as much as Zander, Felix and the Chaos crew.
In the meantime, enjoy this cut scene and a sneak peek at the cover of our last Chaos Station short, “Honeymoon”.
Therapy
If you thought the guys were in desperate need of therapy by the end of Skip Trace, you’re weren’t alone!
Skip Trace (Chaos Station #3) was probably the most heavily edited of the five books. We had to rearrange a few things and cut a few scenes we really loved. One of the cut scenes was a therapy session with Zander, Felix and Dr. McMann – who gets several mentions in the later books!
While we understood therapy would be an important element in the journey of both men, the following scene slowed the pace of the ending too much, so we ended up taking some of the relevant parts out (such as how Felix broke his hand) and using them in other scenes. As a whole, this scene remains one of our favourites, however, and we like to imagine this session did actually happen as written, shortly after the events of Skip Trace.
Read “Therapy” here
Honeymoon
Zander and Felix deserve a break! Downtime is difficult for these former soldiers; no doubt they’ll find an adventure or two aboard the drift cruiser Biswas. There will be no severed limbs, near death experiences or kidnappings in this story! But this is Zed and Flick, so not everything is going to go exactly as planned.
Coming at the end of June!
For more cut scenes, excerpts and short stories, visit the Chaos Station website!
In the meantime, enjoy this cut scene and a sneak peek at the cover of our last Chaos Station short, “Honeymoon”.
Therapy
If you thought the guys were in desperate need of therapy by the end of Skip Trace, you’re weren’t alone!
Skip Trace (Chaos Station #3) was probably the most heavily edited of the five books. We had to rearrange a few things and cut a few scenes we really loved. One of the cut scenes was a therapy session with Zander, Felix and Dr. McMann – who gets several mentions in the later books!
While we understood therapy would be an important element in the journey of both men, the following scene slowed the pace of the ending too much, so we ended up taking some of the relevant parts out (such as how Felix broke his hand) and using them in other scenes. As a whole, this scene remains one of our favourites, however, and we like to imagine this session did actually happen as written, shortly after the events of Skip Trace.
Read “Therapy” here
Honeymoon
Zander and Felix deserve a break! Downtime is difficult for these former soldiers; no doubt they’ll find an adventure or two aboard the drift cruiser Biswas. There will be no severed limbs, near death experiences or kidnappings in this story! But this is Zed and Flick, so not everything is going to go exactly as planned.
Coming at the end of June!
For more cut scenes, excerpts and short stories, visit the Chaos Station website!
We've sent Zed and Felix on a honeymoon!
Zander Anatolius and Felix Ingesson are two of the hardest working men in the galaxy. They really need a break. So, we’ve sent them on a honeymoon—and managed to do so without bringing them to further harm.
(Readers of the Chaos Station series are likely breathing a huge sigh of relief here, as they’re more used to people dying. Or at the very least losing limbs. This holiday has been a long time coming.)
We didn’t just write this story for the Zed and Felix, though. We wrote it for our readers, the fans who have followed the adventures of Zed and Felix from the very start. For those who have mourned their losses, and cheered their successes. For all the folks who sent us little messages saying: “I cannot believe you did that!” Or: “Hasn’t Zed been through enough?” Or, popularly: “OMG, Felix!”
In particular, I wrote my part of this story for Eileen Griffin who finished every book with the plea: “Zed and Felix, deserted island, one week. All sex, all the time.”
Felix doesn’t do planets, so we put the guys on a cruise ship instead.
Jenn and I also wrote this one for ourselves. We’d said goodbye to Zed and Felix with the last edit round of Phase Shift (Chaos Station #5), and it was hard to let go. Many of our blog posts for the release of Phase Shift reflected on how hard it was to say goodbye to characters we’d given life to through five novels and a small collection of short stories. So “Honeymoon” is our last hurrah—a chance for us to just play with the guys, our dear fictional friends; to enjoy their love and everlasting happiness; to share their last adventure with our readers.
Visit our website at: http://chaosstation.com for more short stories, excerpts and deleted scenes.
(Readers of the Chaos Station series are likely breathing a huge sigh of relief here, as they’re more used to people dying. Or at the very least losing limbs. This holiday has been a long time coming.)
We didn’t just write this story for the Zed and Felix, though. We wrote it for our readers, the fans who have followed the adventures of Zed and Felix from the very start. For those who have mourned their losses, and cheered their successes. For all the folks who sent us little messages saying: “I cannot believe you did that!” Or: “Hasn’t Zed been through enough?” Or, popularly: “OMG, Felix!”
In particular, I wrote my part of this story for Eileen Griffin who finished every book with the plea: “Zed and Felix, deserted island, one week. All sex, all the time.”
Felix doesn’t do planets, so we put the guys on a cruise ship instead.
Jenn and I also wrote this one for ourselves. We’d said goodbye to Zed and Felix with the last edit round of Phase Shift (Chaos Station #5), and it was hard to let go. Many of our blog posts for the release of Phase Shift reflected on how hard it was to say goodbye to characters we’d given life to through five novels and a small collection of short stories. So “Honeymoon” is our last hurrah—a chance for us to just play with the guys, our dear fictional friends; to enjoy their love and everlasting happiness; to share their last adventure with our readers.
Visit our website at: http://chaosstation.com for more short stories, excerpts and deleted scenes.
Counting Stars
At the end of my holiday novella, Counting Fence Posts, Henry invites Marc back to his parents’ place for Christmas. Actually, it’s less invitation, more assumption, but Marc doesn’t object, and after two days of haunting the lobby of a crowded hotel outside Albany, they’re finally on their way back to Boston.
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If not for a word count limit, I might have included this visit in the original novella. I’m actually glad I didn’t. Not only do I now have the chance to share an extra story (which I love doing), I really like the way Counting Fence Posts ended. It was sweet, simple and filled with promise.
I hope you enjoy this extra slice of time with Henry and Marc! Their story is set to continue, by the way. Counting Down, which is their first actual date, is coming spring 2017 from Dreamspinner Press! Details on my Coming Soon page. And I’m currently outlining the final story in the Counting trilogy, Counting Out, which will be another road trip, with less roadside distress and more happy ever after. That’s the plan, anyway.
Read Now
If not for a word count limit, I might have included this visit in the original novella. I’m actually glad I didn’t. Not only do I now have the chance to share an extra story (which I love doing), I really like the way Counting Fence Posts ended. It was sweet, simple and filled with promise.
I hope you enjoy this extra slice of time with Henry and Marc! Their story is set to continue, by the way. Counting Down, which is their first actual date, is coming spring 2017 from Dreamspinner Press! Details on my Coming Soon page. And I’m currently outlining the final story in the Counting trilogy, Counting Out, which will be another road trip, with less roadside distress and more happy ever after. That’s the plan, anyway.
