Tossing Grenades At Windmills

Mause the uplifted Mouse and Kat the Cartoon Digital Intelligence Cat live together in a tiny storage unit in the future.  Rent is due and they have no immediate plan to pay it until the Block Party has a poetry slam planned.

Bron is not the protagonist of this story.  As a random peasant near an enchanted wood, he would be fine with that, but while he is not the protagonist, he is central to its resolution and two enchanted talking mice show up to enlighten him about why he IS important and frame the telling of the rest of the tale of Michael, Heir of Sunfire.

First of seven stories about Post Humanism from the Chapbook of Water and Glass.  Ted was a human and Bob, his Cactus owner, had to make some....alterations to get him on Planet Metmetmetrion.+

I discuss plans and status of writing and podcast projects for 2023.

I talk about my experience with the writing track at SFWA and World Con 2011.

Freight is trapped on a ship designed for weight loss and while he can eat illusionary food to pass the time, his body needs a minimum caloric intake to survive.  Body horror and definite trigger warning as he does what it takes to survive.  Author's commentary and series conclusion the week after this.

Franz tells his younger self to kill a Time Traveling Goebels who is going to hire him in the future.  Franz does this but his problems only start then.  

A young woman helps her father build air rifles that will end the curse planted by fire mages that makes guns illegal.

Ham didnt understand why he was being tried thousands of years in the future for eating a hamburger.  He was some kind of symbol and the penalty for failure was death.  Only the trial in this case was more bizarre and personal than he could imagine.

Madlan investigates the death of a man who had been keeping the most hated people on Earth alive while the rest of humanity waits for these people to die so the aliens will let them join the greater Galactic Community.

Chester makes a final sacrifice to save Hler from the rampaging world powers bent on its destruction.

An earlier draft of Mr Missile and Molly (previously read as a standalone podcast episode) including commentary about why this earlier draft didnt work.  Mr. Missile is a sapient missile decommissioned and put into a human body.  He tries to fit in.

The Gang of Four reunite under tense circumstances.  Chester finally gets the chance he has been looking for and unleashes one meme to rule them all.

You wanna LARP Wolverines against the most powerful weapon in the history of mankind? You wanna be Batman? Well there are some obstacles you should know about.  Star Wars references are abundant.  Vote like your like depends on it....because it does.

Practical Advice on preparing to be a passive resister to the coup.  Includes protesting, preparation for protesting, protecting books and movies from the regime, creating an underground railroad (and how not to get caught), and being a witness for the tribunals when the regime falls.  Be the quiet ghost against fascism.

This podcast episode is practical advice for those who realize the coup attempt is inevitable and plan to flee the United States.  When do you go? What do you need to do get a visa? Where will you go? How much do you need to save ahead of time?

Practical advice and understanding for those who are considering hiding from the MAGA regime that will result if the inevitable coup attempt is successful.

Blaspheme for Blaspheme, Me Myself and Not I, No it Doesnt, My Lunatic Uncle, For Want of a Nail, Covenant at Gunpoint, Maybe

A new series discussing practical preparation for the coming coup.  The next four episodes involve practical advice for how to prepare based on your strategy; Hide, Run, Passively Resist, Actively Resist.  This episode is much more simple; it makes the simple case of why the coup is inevitable.  It isn't known if it will be successful; nor when, but it is ABSOLUTELY inevitable that it will happen again because a sufficient effort is not being made to change the root causes of the risk.

If I were You, Pay to Play, Reset the Police, My Octopus Lover, Precious Bodily Fluids, Deliberations, The Trial of a God,