Writing / The bookshelf
The novels I've been working on, posted in full, one chapter per page. They're drafts, and they'll keep changing. When a chapter has an earlier version, you'll find it tucked under the chapter so you can see what moved.
At Coney Island's Dreamland in 1904, a nurse who keeps premature babies alive in glass incubators is caught between the lion tamer she's promised to and the quiet electrician who notices everything, while the park burns its way toward the fire of 1911.
One satellite breaks apart over Asia, the debris starts taking out everything else in orbit, and the people who make it home have to learn to live, and eventually fly, without the sky they built.
Mac is a modern kid who time travels without going anywhere, and while the pirate and rockstar trips are great, the ones that turn him into a cave kid fighting dinosaurs are a lot harder to come back from.
Christmas Eve, 1999, in Ocala, Florida: a teenage pot dealer watches the shadows in his pool hall start moving on their own, and has one week to turn his crew of misfits into the only thing standing between his town and something very old waiting in the springs for midnight.
In a future where people live five hundred years and every minute is scheduled, a straight-A cadet draws the one ship nobody wants and finds it full of squatters, jazz, poetry and a captain who's quietly steering them all toward the sun.
A casualty notification officer, ninety-some doors deep into other people's grief, accepts a cup of tea from a widow who knows exactly how to take him apart.
Not started yet
In 1994 Seoul, a sixteen-year-old finds out he can hit Continue on his own life, and he spends every credit trying to talk to one girl.
Viral social media challenges keep knocking out real infrastructure in North Carolina, and the engineer who spots the pattern finds something from the future behind them.
In an endless war across a cluster of planets, everyone who dies is reborn to fight again, and one soldier is the only one who remembers.
A secret program sends teenage pilots through time to patch a broken timeline, and the one leading them is being hunted by his own future self.
An old man who can visit his own past can't stop trying to fix it, and every fix costs more than the last.
A dying uncle confesses that his time travel broke history, and his heir takes the journals and the machine back to 1997 to fix it.