Tag: short stories

• Web Serial

  Short Story: How to Stop Trains (A Guide for Superheroes)

  

  It’s been a while since I’ve posted any short fiction on my blog, so here’s a little something from The White Knight & Black Valentine Series. Enjoy! How to Stop Trains (A Guide for Superheroes) An excerpt from White Knight’s lecture at the Academy on April 15, 2002. Remember the…

  October 26, 2018
• Lists

  More Spectacular Steampunk Short Stories

  

  Need something to read this weekend? Want that something to have dirigibles, clockwork, and lady inventors? Would you prefer if it was FREE? Then you’re in the right place. Here are four awesome steampunk short stories you can read right now. Clockwork Fairies by Cat Rambo This is one of…

  August 10, 2018
• Lists

  8 Great Superhero Anthologies

  

  I love a good anthology. Getting a dozen stories in one collection, discovering new authors, diving into new worlds—what’s not to like? Fans of superhero fiction are particularly lucky, because there are a lot of good superhero anthologies out there. In honor of the release of Heroes and Villains, the…

  July 16, 2018
• Lists

  Spectacular Steampunk Short Stories

  

  Interested in traveling back in time and across dimensions? Good, because I’ve got a collection of steampunk short fiction to transport you to other worlds. The steam and clockwork-powered robots in these stories range from evil to enchanting, from sentient beings to human-piloted machines of mass destruction. The one thing…

  April 3, 2018
• Book Stuff

  Free Short Story: The Braden Banshee

  You know the feeling of finishing a good book? You loved it but end up depressed that it’s over, longing to spend more time with the characters. If I did my job right, that’s the feeling you got at the end of The Ghost Machine. And do I have good…

  March 19, 2018
• Book Releases

  Announcing the Secret Stairs Anthology

  You mustn’t talk about the stairs. There they stand, surrounded by nothing but forest, pristine as the day they were built. No sign remains of any other structure around them, no ruins of long forgotten buildings. They look… wrong. They feel wrong. Bad things happen if you get too close.…

  March 7, 2018
• Lists

  Even More Sensational Superhero Short Stories

  

  It’s that time again: time for another edition of the best superhero short fiction from around the web. Here are four free short stories to kick off your week with (and if you like these, catch up on my first and second lists). La Gorda and the City of Silver…

  January 29, 2018
• Lists

  More Sensational Superhero Short Stories

  

  Fight Crime! (A Love Story) is taking a break between episodes this week, but that doesn’t matter, because you’re reading Almost Invincible, right? 😉 For you voracious readers who finished the novel already and need more superhero stories to consume, here’s a selection of free superhero short fiction from around…

  October 2, 2017
• Lists

  Sensational Superhero Short Stories

  

  Hey, guys! Fight Crime (A Love Story) is taking a break between episodes this week, but I don’t want to leave you without reading material. Here are four excellent superhero short stories to brighten your Monday. Falling by Susan Jane Bigelow This short story is set in Bigelow’s Extrahuman Union…

  July 24, 2017
• News

  Love and Supervillains

  I’m very happy to announce that my short story, “How Lady Nightmare Stole Captain Alpha’s Girlfriend” is the featured story in Issue 29 of Luna Station Quarterly. It was just released today, and you can read the full thing right here. Lady Nightmare made a short cameo in Villainous, so…

  March 1, 2017