Oh, the Worlds My Hand Has Ended
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I have a new book coming out next month (17 Oct 2025). It’s a collection of mostly fantasy tragedies. One or two sci-fi stories tucked within as well. It’s around 315 pages, 86k words, and contains some of my best writing (though we must here recognize that best and most pretentious often vie for first place).
I often get ideas, then they start ballooning into 400 page books, then 2000 page series. Soon enough, my mind has been thoroughly quagged into inaction. I have found that if, instead, I condense it into a 5-10k word story, it is enough to get out of my head and allow me to focus on the projects I actually want to be longer. So here you are, a collection of my inklings that all seemed to veer toward the tragic.
Don’t feel constrained to read them in order, or to read all of them. I’m sure some will have more appeal than others for each individual. Sometimes, like in Redamancy, I just wanted to test out how purple prose can get. Of course there are readers who are quite colorist in this regard and shun all things even hinting at lilac. They will be best availed by stories like Eurekazol, which tries not at all to be clever with the yarn, but rather focus on the stitching.
There are two nonsense poems in the collection after the manner of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky. These are explorations into soundscapes and latent spaces which you feel like should exist. I think you’ll enjoy the audiobook reading of those, even if it’s hard to follow. It just sounds good coming off the tongue. I will probably put them on YouTube as well for fun.
Columbus Obscurus has one of my favorite starting lines I’ve ever come up with. It’s a story where the Devil recruits dear Christopher to sail across the oceans of Hell and find what’s on the other side.
In sixteen hundred and twenty-three
Columbus sailed the ocean black
The Devil had bade him go and see
Beyond the edge of Hell's great map
I will be interested to see which stories spark in the most minds and which can find no kindling.
Intro: A Word for All Sages
Old Storm
Portal Fantasy 1: Loose Strings Find Rings
A Noble Hue (triptych poem)
We Kill Monks
Portal Fantasy 2: Red Rings Fix Things
Headsman of the Salted Wind
Arm Charm (nonsense poem)
Columbus Obscurus
Sister Goddess
Kaleidoscope Jumpers (sci-fi)
Open MasonrAI (essay comparing Free Masonry and AI)
Redamancy
To Lechera (nonsense poem)
Eurekazol (sci-fi/cybersteam)
Wasting Chains
Outro: The Final Word for Sages
