Zone Legends

Chapter 5 of another tale from the Exclusion Zone 5. ZONE LEGENDS The Zone run came together fast. There were palms to grease, papers to forge, patrol and drone schedules to get, but Oleg had it all done in forty-eight hours. He’d even managed to keep Major Yushinko from getting wind of it. Savak was […]

A North Korean Hand Grenade

Chapter 4 of another tale from the Exclusion Zone 4. A NORTH KOREAN HAND GRENADE Oleg’s idea was simple: Savak needed an artifact. A real one. Not one of the irradiated railroad ties they bent and magnetized to sell to tourists or reporters. This had to be a genuine specimen, something exotic to display behind […]

Nicknames

Chapter 3 of another tale from the Exclusion Zone 3. NICKNAMES The next night, Savak looked over the floor of the Bad Habits and could practically hear money flowing into his pockets. A Friday night, a payday, the bar was packed with off-duty security and Institute pencil necks all knocking back drinks and eyeing […]

Ground Floor Opportunity

2. GROUND FLOOR OPPORTUNITY Midnight on empty roads, the drive back to town was a tunnel of headlights and memories. Savak had arrived right after the first Incident five years earlier. On the run from Bratva debt collectors and puking out the tail end of meth addiction, Anton had found him shivering and starved in […]

Gopnik Blues

The start of another tale from the Exclusion Zone ONE: THE GOPNIK BLUES Savak Tul lit a cigarette and headed toward the noise coming from the rear of the garage. He dragged deep, filled his mouth and lungs with smoke, then exhaled through his nose the way he’d seen in an American gangster movie. Halfway […]

Short Stories

Writing stories is another thing that keeps me busy. More so now that I’m shifting to full-time writing. I want to take a moment to mention seven of my short pieces that are available as audio books. Tales from the Exclusion Zone, from fifteen minutes in the future, from the gritty cyberpunk streets of New […]

First Post of 2022

Trying to kick off the new year right, I’m pleased to say ‘Fits and Orisons‘ is now available. A collection of five of my short stories, if you like your near future, spec-fiction with a dose of strange, this should scratch that itch. Click HERE for your copy. This trade paperback contains ‘The Stones Remember’, […]

Free Fiction

SOUL CACHE – a Cyberpunk Crime Thriller set in New Kowloon. Current fiction project, a technoir murder story set in the fictional mega city I use in my personal Hardwired games. An aging detective resorts to illegal software in the hunt for a brutal and methodical serial killer. Here are the first Ten Chapters in […]

Fiction Interrupt

Quick pause in Hobby stuff to let people know I’m serializing a cyberpunk crime story. Set in Hardwired’s fictional mega-city of New Kowloon, you can find it over at my writer’s site: Hot Space Station Justice. Or click the links below. Thanks. Current title ‘Soul Cache’, an aging detective steps outside the law and risks […]

Another Tale from the Zone

For those of you who season your post-apocalypse with vodka and AK47s, “Strange Treasure” (Another tale from the Exclusion Zone) is now available at Amazon. Bruised, battered but alive after his trip to the secret underground lab, Zone Guide Yuri Bonyev is hired by another group to go back into the Zone. Seems a group […]