Available manuscript | Literary horror

Shudder

People disappear without patterns anyone wants to see. When Tyler, a medical examiner, begins encountering bodies that do not obey anatomy or cause-of-death logic, she records what she can, omits what she must, and keeps the system moving.

The disappearances are not random. They are part of something old and organized: predators who hide, hunt, and survive because respectable systems have always made room for them.

SHUDDER will appeal to readers of The Historian and The Strain, combining investigative structure with a modern supernatural ecosystem. It is complete, polished and looking for traditional representation.

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Available manuscript | Loadtech 1

Download

Download. Upload. Delete.

When corporations own your memories, even identity is a commodity. In a divided society where soldiers are programmed and memory can be bought by those who can afford the price, five unlikely people collide with the machinery that has been quietly shaping them.

DOWNLOAD is a 122,000-word near-future thriller with post-cyberpunk, speculative science fiction elements and a strong character-driven core. It blends the moral questions of Black Mirror with the pacing of a thriller and the tone of a grounded tech-noir road story. It is complete and polished.

Upload

Two years after the events of Download, Valentine Ortiz and Edward Vance are drawn back into a struggle that will decide the fate of Loadtech, with consequences that are more intimate and more dangerous than before.

In a world where memories can be shared, sold, altered, or stolen, Upload asks who determines the worth of a life: the person living it, or the systems that can rewrite it. UPLOAD is nearly complete (last 3 chapters--the hardest part--still remain.)

Delete

The planned conclusion to the Loadtech trilogy will bring the sequence back to its central question: what is the natural end result when someone aquires ultimate power over humanity?

Delete is included in this list as part of the broader series architecture rather than as a finished manuscript. Download + Upload are complete storylines by themselves and don't require Delete, but the system failure was triggered in Download, we watched it rupture in Upload and like a slow train wreck, we can't stop watching as a man descends into his own ruin. Does Val survive? And if so, to what extent?

The Arc

Two thousand years of history as witnessed by one man. The Arc begins with Titus and the long, difficult attempt to understand an elusive past while surviving enough of history to discover his purpose.

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Arcworld 2 | Previously self-published

Vanir

Vanir continues Arcworld 7,500 years after its beginning, following Samuel as he is thrust into a reality he did not choose and must survive long enough to tell his own story.

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