New Zone Fiction

Another tale from the Zone. Expert Guide Yuri Bonyev is back, this time handling a completely different kind of creature. *** ACCOUNTANTS FROM VLADIVOSTOK It’s an old photo, faded and water stained. Yuri has seen it on the wall behind Zakhar’s counter for years. It was taken with a cheap Polaroid early […]

A Prayer to Saint Strelok

Now available for pre-order at Amazon. Release date: 16 December. St. Strelok at Amazon Spasibo!

Zombie 6 latest chapter

“OFFICIAL REPORTS” – Is up at my fiction blog. Hope you enjoy. Have a good weekend.

Free Stories

Wanted to use the Holiday season to say ‘Thanks’ to everyone who stops by the blog and comments on my toy soldiers. It’s much appreciated. I write fiction in my spare, spare time, so here are links to three NF, SF shorts. All free at Amazon this weekend. (There’s another in the works: a very […]

Another Short Story on the way.

A near-future mil-action short about NATO units caught in a massive Russian invasion of Poland and the Baltics. (It’s fiction, right?) Doing the final proof read now. It should be available at Amazon end of the week. Have a good day.

Story Time. With Pictures

An original short story, ‘Sozo’. Illustrations by Tim Teague. Enjoy. *** Taking a piss and there was a pistol in the sink. A wedge of dull slate black on shiny white porcelain. It was big – sexy in an ugly way, like a Tijuana hooker. Curves that snuggle in your palm and jack you all […]

The Grim Fall 4 – STUNTIES

Still deciding which fiction project to pursue in the new year. In the meantime, this is the latest from my post-apocalyptic fantasy piece. Hope you enjoy. FOUR: STUNTIES The mine’s entrance was little more than a low, round cave lit by flaming torches. Inside, it turned into a narrow passage that ran roughly fifty paces […]

An Ask

Quick ask here – if anyone’s read and enjoyed any of my fiction – The Barrow Lover, Running Black, Shift Tense (Red Flags, Soldier Dreams, Angels) or Clar1ty Wars 1: One Bad Apple – would you do me a favor and fire off a short review at either Amazon or Goodreads? Reviews and review numbers […]

Latest Book Info

Apologies for thin wargame content lately. The added drama of abrupt changes on top of the usual pressure of a book release left me scrambling. That said, here’s the Release notice for my latest novella The Barrow Lover. It is now available at Amazon. The Kindle version is up, the print one working it’s way […]

The Grim Fall 3: Luck

Three: Luck The Black Sands was a beggarly name for an Orc settlement. Before the Grim Fall, a war-horde thundering out of the Unaka Mountains would shake the earth and chill the blood of every king within five-hundred leagues. Now the scraps of the Unaka greenskins eked out an existence in an old iron mine […]