Time traveling murderer; who offed Charlemagne?
#sixwordstory #timetravel

Hector mused on that. If the jump gates were down across the galaxy—permanently down—thousands of worlds were now isolated.
#ZeksWorld

New logline: A beleaguered troll-herder discovers that the government is not resettling trolls but is preparing them to fight wars.
#modernproblems

Watched several episodes of Black Mirror for the first time. Excellent writing on that series!
#BlackMirror

“Everybody’s lost kin to the jackalopes, Pearl, but the new weapons can finally end this war: Gatling’s rotary gun, dreadnaught airships, poison gas bombs—”
“Do you hear yourself, Cassia? We aren’t ending this war; we’re just making new ways to kill those beasts.”
#JackWars

“You’re talking about war from the Mississippi to the Rockies. Gods, Cass, what will be left?”
Cassia snorted. “I don’t like it any more than you, but it’s the jackalope’s war. They drove the tribes out of the Plains.”
“So we start a bigger war to end the war?”
#JackWars

Two weeks out from New Angmar I stumbled on a derelict transport, the Kalvan. By rights I could salvage the ship and cargo. There was just one thing: most of the crew was still alive. My power core was flaky, so I took theirs. They would have died sooner or later.
#ZeksWorld

Never let common sense get in the way of a good idea.

My novelette Troll Hunt (the prequel to the Troll Hunter novel) made it to the second round at Deep Magic. They gave great, positive feedback. I love the folks at DeepMagic.co!

“Every paper Zek wrote, every public pronouncement on the impossibility of the physics was a carefully crafted lie.”
#ZeksWorld