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 […]

Radio Free Pavlohrad

A ZONA ALFA/KONTRABAND AAR The Cape Cod Wargame Commission met last night to venture into the Deep Zone with a game of Zona Alfa/Kontraband. For this mission, five Stalkers were tasked with repairing a radio tower to boost Radio Free Pavlohrad – a pirate station broadcasting from a secure, hidden location somewhere in the embattled […]

Smuggler’s Blues

Update on An ongoing ECLIPSE PHASE 2.0 adventure The Cape Cod Wargame Commission has been toying around with Eclipse Phase 2.0, the role-playing game of transhuman horror and survival by PostHuman Studios. Extremely cool setting with a very crunchy rule set, a party of Firewall agents has been tracking Titan infected tech and fork-napped consciousnesses […]

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 […]

Rowville Rescue

An INSURGENT EARTH AAR The Rowville Resistance Cell was at it again last night, responding to a frantic call on a CB radio. Apparently, a survivor was hiding in Dryden’s Ditch, an old farm on the outskirts of town. According to the survivor, old Dryden himself had made a last stand there, taking down half-a-dozen […]

Insurgent Earth

I’m pleased to announce that Insurgent Earth is finally done. Insurgent Earth is a tabletop war game in which players take the role of survivors in the chaotic days following a massive invasion of Earth by an advanced alien civilization. In Insurgent Earth, the players are not Generals or Admirals, Presidents or Prime Ministers, they’re […]