ARTIFACT COLLECTIVE is an attempt to create consciousness in a book. You begin. You are trapped in the dark under a great weight. You cannot move. His, her, their, our, your, and my consciousnesses take shape through speculation into your condition. Are you buried alive? Why? Are you alive? Are you accelerating through space in a you-shaped windowless vessel? What is your shape? Are you a flicker of light on the horizon of a black hole? Where is she? Has he lost all he loved? Speculation v...

You choose: You hear a scream (or not), and what do you do about it. Nothing or stay in your chair and figure out the who what when why or go out the front door and chase the scream to prevent it or create it or capture it. Within the book are choices and non-choices, choices masquerading as choices, labyrinths, your torture and your self-torture, your authorship, multiple worlds, you becoming someone else, another you, you becoming a series of animals, you becoming us, you becoming death,...

A modern dispossessed man climbs a sacred mound that an ancient native civilization builds. They descend. Rise, then Descend, a short story, was first published in Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 18 #1.From Rise, then Descend:"Did the ancients use walking sticks when climbing the mound? He's not sure what kind of man needs a walking stick to walk. You just move your feet one front of the other. An old man might need a walking stick. But he is not old. He is old, compared to how ol...

THE END is a story of the undead in the West. They ambiguously steal in an unknown act of defiance. You begin in the dark under an immense weight. They shut down their technology and slowly escape on horseback along the divide. You must move but cannot. They throw phones and sometimes die. You fall up. He goes to town, and she meets a bear. You rot and burn and reach out with your mind. Eyes attend.THE END is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 License (CC...

Imagine yourself in my shoes. Imagine being 18-years-old, and in just 24 hours the world you knew stopped existing.Imagine being a teenager and learning all these skills that were designed for one purpose - to kill others.Growing up in Communist Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia), Mario Bekes witnessed a lot of social unrest - before finding himself in the middle of the Croatian War of Independence.Mario's world quickly turned upside down. One morning he woke to a kn...

They wake bounded in a nutshell. They wakes unbound in a river bound by a meadow sounded by a voice. I, voiced by you, wake in my living room. Inside me voices live. They live inside you. They want out. Good morning."Logos" is a fictional discourse of voice seeking agency."Logos" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

"A man wishes to write a novel in which one of the characters goes mad; while working on it he himself goes mad by degrees, and finishes it in the first person." (Kierkegaard, 1837)"Whether he himself in this way also went 'insane' is here of less importance than the fact that he now -- at last -- can operate in the first person, singular, present, indicative, active." (Joakim Garff, 1997)Affair is a novel by Nick Stokes. A man who collects sticks and gathers stones has an ...

You begin. She opens her eyes. They diverge and live through the expanding adjacent possible becoming. They encounter pandemic, climate change, social unrest, artificial intelligence. They face existential threat. Some of our futures end. Some of us ascend.The Possible is an experiment. The Possible is a beginning.The Possible is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA 4.0)."She files for unemployment again. She's filed, on he...

The Spyglass Project is the first book of the Secret Six series set in the Prohibition era of 1920s Chicago, featuring Major Michael Malone as an alcoholic ex-military intelligence officer who infiltrates the city’s underground to expose a crime lord funding the rise of Adolf Hitler.  The book opens with a Prologue set eight years earlier in a prisoner-of-war camp in Wittenberg, Germany, during World War 1.In the Enemy’s Shadow begins where the Prologue in The Spyglass Project ends...

Haunted by starlings in the dark, a young woman spirals into an altered state of consciousness.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

• Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction• Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award.During Charlotte Gill’s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest...

In this "tour de force of modern nature writing," a passionate naturalist explores what it's really like to be an animal—by living like them ( The Guardian, UK).In Being a Beast, Charles Foster tests the limits of our ability to walk in another's footsteps. He lives alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He catches fish in his ...