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Subscribing to the Omniverse will get you everything from short fiction to serialized versions of my longer works. This podcast featuries voices from around the internet. My stories run the gamut from horror to literary fiction. As a multi-genre author, two of my key inspirations are Stephen King and Ray Bradbury. As those men did, I strive to use all the tools in my toolbox to weave stories that have rich characters in weird and wonderful situations.

Captain Maximillian Blair had always hoped to discover there was life on other planets. His job at one of the government's most secure research facilities put him in the position to learn the truth, one way or another. When he met a stranger from the stars, he didn't expect to be charged with discovering the man's secrets at any cost. Or to fall in love. How deadly would the truth prove to be? And can his love be the world's salvation or will it be its damnation?

"The Gibbering Mr. Cravat": Bearing a hideous curse, Mr. Cravat begs the help of consulting detective Esho St. Claire. The case will take St. Claire from the homes of Manhattan's wealthy to the Undercity, where creatures of legend live. "The Current Killer": Speaking through Nikola Tesla's ether recording machine, a ghost hires St. Claire to prove that Thomas Edison is guilty of his murder.

Laurent, a faerie sorcerer, lived for centuries. When it ended, instead of drifting into oblivion, he awoke in Hell. After countless years of indescribable torment, a half-faerie half-human conjurer summons him to 21st century New Orleans. Laurent now has 24 hours to discover who used him as an unwilling murderer and to avoid a return to damnation. The only person on his side is the summoner's sister, a half-faerie police detective, investigating the murder he committed.

Ginnie Dare is the communications officer for her family's spacefaring shipping company. They arrive at Eshu for a routine supply drop and discover the entire settlement's population has vanished. Their search of the site reveals nothing out of place, except the people, but ends in a tense confrontation with the natives. During the conflict, Ginnie discovers an alien artifact that may be the key to diffusing the conflict. Can she decode the artifact before it's taken by the Sector Defense Force?