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What am I writing now?
June, 2025: I would say words, but seriously, at this moment in time, I’m editing The Angel Project: Emergence. I’m in the editing process and it’s a slow slog for me, but it’s coming along. There’s so much I have chomping at the bit to be written! Yet, I have no compulsion to hurry. I want them done, yes, but I enjoy the process of creating, maybe too much.
My first blurb for The Angel Project was pretty simple:
What if angels and their offspring still walked the Earth?
Zaraschiel discovers she’s Nephilim and the Grigori want her blood, dead or alive.
It was an idea that I began with. Overtime, as I wrote and wrote, a bigger, deeper story developed.
Life is not simple for Zarachiel, freshly escaped from her drig cartel foster parents in deep South Texas. In Dallas, she stays off the grid finding a new family, Gracie and her five-year-old daughter, Katie.
Just as Zara makes contact with her biological father, the cartel attack, wanting the money she stole from them.
Amid chaos and survival for both her and her new family, Zarachiel discovers her true inhuman self as she fights for her freedom and the freedom of humanity.
Better, but still not quite there. It’ll get there.
The hero journey is inside of you;
tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
In Process
Impatiently waiting to be written are other novel-length stories, along with short stories and poems. Several stories and poems are have been published several times over. I have to keep track of this stuff or I will forget big time.
In Process
Gog Magog — working title
Indoline — working title
Kara — working title
Realms of Revenge
Resonant Frequency
The Angel Project — editing
The Distortionists
The Downing (next up!)
The Killer of Kings
The Year of All
Short Stories
A Girl and her Bug
Carrot of Hope, The
Catsup — published, Award winner FenCon Short Story Contest, Best of and Quarterly Best of Short Story Bewildering Towers
Earth Speaks
Girl with No Head, The
Henry and the Dog
How to be an Evil Genius — published
Justice — published
Near Girl’s Gift, the
Old World, The
Oleya and Joran — Writers of the Future Contest Award
On Shiloh Road
Ramona’s Readings
Skies A’Fire
Unburied, The
In publications:
Abandoned Towers Magazine
Altered Realities Magazine
Blue Note
Beal’s House of Poetry
Paragon Magazine
Poems
As a Human — published
I am Me — published
Limbo Lies — 1st Place Prodigy Halloween Poetry Contest, published
The Recycler
To the Illusory Muse — published
When Morty Comes A’Callin’
Short Stories
In this category, there’s no way I can put every single published article on this list. Later, I’ll provide a link to the articles and you can find them as blog posts as I have time to repost them. Here, I’ll put mostly where my work was published.
Rattle and Hum Sports
The Examer.com
Next Century Publishing (ghost writer)
FYI Entertainment
SavvyAuthors
RWA — web & various chapters
DFW Writers Workshop Newsletter
North Texas eNews
FYI Entertainment
Awards
Honorable Mention
Writers of the Future Contest
2020 3rd Quarter
“Maijan”
This short story, Maijan, is a rewrite from a previous short story called “Oleya and Joran.” I started this years ago, and realized, it’s not just a short story, but a bigger story which I’m working on.
Every story story is a “what if” story. I had been perusing Wikipedia for some other story, and ran across a page on sex-changing sea horses. When they are in peril, they can change to a male sea horse and become more agressive.
So I began to wonder, my “what if” moment, this were to happen to humans? Or human-like creatures? How would they deal with their changing relationship? With their family? With their society?
This isn’t a new idea. It’s happening everyday with people who alter their gender to fit who they really are. Even with it being the choice of the person to change gender, to have the meds and even the surgery, it’s still a huge impact on them, and their world.
However, in my story, these people don’t have a choice. It can happen regardless. Changing their physical and mental self is forced upon them. Then what?
I thought it was kinda scary myself. And a cool story to explore. I hope to have it developed into a novel soon.
Honorable Mention
Writers of the Future Contest
2021 1st Quarter
“Maijan”
This is my complete rewrite of “Maijan” trying to get that HM up to a placement! But not yet. Still, I’m extremely proud of this accomplishment.
Catsup — short story. Originally published in Bewidlering Stories. Won “Best of” twice. Also, 2nd place in the FenCon Short Story Contest.
Limbo Lies — poem. Won 1st place in the Prodigy Halloween Poetry Contest.
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