New Short Story - Unofficial Transcript

 I posted a new short story over at Substack:

This month I’m changing it up and sharing a short story I wrote titled “Unofficial Transcript.” It’s a sci-fi story written as a conversation between a 9-1-1 operator and a caller. I got the idea to write in the audio transcript format after reading a news story about a crime and the 9-1-1 call involved. It was as simple as that, the idea of a back-n-forth between two people over the phone got my brain thinking about how to construct a story with those restrictions. An experiment, you might say. As an experiment, I like how it turned out.

 Check it out here.

 

 

New Music Out - Absolver EP

 

I spent the summer working on some music, specifically electronic trip-hop influenced tracks. I found vocal samples that I liked, and built tracks from those and playing around with various loops and writing my own parts. If you’re a fan of trip-hop like Hooverphonic, Morcheeba, Zero 7, Groove Armada, you might dig it. It’s on all the streaming services as well as Bandcamp.

New Short Story - Rump Roast - Read or Listen

 

Upon returning from a trip to Italy, I felt reinvigorated to start working on writing projects again. At the same time, and old friend posted on his Facebook page about doing voice work so I reached out about a short story I wrote during the pandemic. I had put it aside as it wasn’t in my usual sci-fi/post-apocalyptic writing genre.

The story, titled Rump Roast, is about a pair of Great Depression-era mobsters who pay a visit to a local butcher and get more than they bargained for. It was inspired by some of the mafia history books I was reading at the time, as well as my appreciation of anthology fantasy/sci-fi/horror/thriller shows like The Twilight Zone, Tales From The Crypt, and Black Mirror.

So thanks to Michael Lovins, my narrator, I now present to you Rump Roast in both print and audio form for your enjoyment.

PDF and audio available on Substack.