For generations, the science fiction genre and literary fiction have been perceived as irreconcilable. Startling Sci-Fi: New Tales of the Beyond attempts to prove otherwise. These 13 stories are boldly literary while employing unmistakable characteristics of the sci-fi genre. Jhon Sanchez’s “The Japanese Rice Cooker” and Daniel Gooding’s “Crow Magnum Xix” toy with readers’ expectations by defying traditional storytelling techniques while Eve Fisher’s “Embraced” and David W. Landru...

'The Three of Me' is a science fiction short novel. The story line is set in the early Twenty Second Century and deals with events surrounding tissue replication technology under study and experimentation in a University Lab.The main character, Ilio Tarak, is a janitor in the Laboratory Group wing of the University in question. Due to an equipment malfunction, he is accidentally copied twice by an organic replication device held by the school. Forced to conceal the existence of his...

'Titan's Ghosts' deals with a colony on Titan in the mid twenty-sixth century. The premise is one involving a species of aliens living in the belt system of Saturn, and a program on the part of human scientists to abduct and process them for the sake of the Colony's needs. The storyline follows the experience of a single alien who escapes and takes the form of a teenage girl, discovering the human experience while searching for Its fellows.The body of seventeen year old Kanal Mikli...

Short stories collected from my various journal publications, spoken word, and storytelling performances. The author also curates a Youtube channel archivng these events in Vancouver, Canada.