Novella

I've written one! Well, I wrote it nearly three years ago and am just now getting around to editing it--but! It is now nearly done, and I hope to have it out on Kindle by the end of the year. It's about a shape-shifting thief on Mars who is hired to kidnap a super-genius and …

Ex Machina

After watching the trailer for this sci-fi thriller about artificial intelligence, I had formed some opinions about it that weren't exactly positive. It looked entertaining, but I had figured it would be another anti-technology movie where 'new thing X that we never should have invented destroys the world!' Which is what any move about technology …

In the Water, free for a limited time

Hello! I've decided it's been a while since I had a promotion, so one of my stories is going to be free on Kindle this weekend, starting tomorrow. It's about a crash landing on an alien world, an unknown virus, deep oceans, consciousness, and more! If you are slightly interested, might as well check it …

Blue Ruin

As far as revenge stories go, this one was a bit different. When we first meet Dwight, the protagonist, he is sleeping in his car and eating from garbage cans. The movie does a good job of setting the scene fairly quickly, and you find yourself feeling for the character before he even says a …

Mad Max: Fury Road

You remember when you were a kid and you got ahold of your dad's video camera and filmed yourself 'punching' your friends so that they fell off a 'cliff', or putting on your sunglasses and saying something cool? You didn't really know what you were doing, but you'd seen that stuff in movies you liked, …