I've been involved in this particular genre since 1996. And I didn't start small. My first magnum opus was the Winds of Change setting, which turned out to be surprisingly popular to write in. In eleven years I've grown a lot as a writer, and I don't plan on stopping. The stories that go up here will be those that will not be submitted for publication.
New stories will generally be posted to TSA-Talk first, then here. Though I am posting an in-progress series here first to give Shifti a boost.
Written in 2000. This is the first story (novella) I wrote that really felt professional to me. ended up submitting it to a couple of online magazines, but nothing ever came of it. So up it goes here.
A story in Bryan's Wisp-touched setting. I rather like the main character. Written 2004.
Unnamed Series
I am entertaining ideas of what to call this setting. It's turning into more of a chapter-by-chapter novella/novel at this rate. I'm trying to keep each part short and focused on a single goal.
In this section will go stories that I wrote prior to 2000. This has a number of caveats. Mainly that as I've matured as a writer, my writing style has also grown and improved. Improved a lot. In most cases I haven't read any of these in at least five years and more. All errors in grammar, spelling, and general story structure are therefore unchanged. Caveat emptor.
This story is one of my earliest works. It also comes from a time when I was Titanic geek. I devoured just about everything about the ship, its passengers, and everything else. The genesis of this setting was my job at the time (working for a small retail store), my boss had come back from an Alaska cruise. I was also less settled on the species I "am" now, and whales and dolphins were much more in my imagination. So, here it is, in all its bombast and pretension.
It's also the first story I wrote that started a trend for what amounts to historical fantasy-fiction. I've pretty much stayed there ever since.
Warning: Story takes place in First Person perspective, yet has three main characters. This was an early experiment of mine. I really didn't know what I was doing. Can you tell?
Posting will be done part-by-part as I wikiformat them.
Echoes (Sequel to Titanic, 1998)
Winds of Change
There is already an external archive to these stories and this setting, so I'm not going to post too many of these here due to time constraints.
Oh boy, what to say about this one? I remember the idea came from one the endless email exchanges between me and my friend Eirik. We did a lot of that in those days. I'd write some little bit of dialogue at the end of the message, he'd respond with something else. Sort of a micro-Round Robin.
I was also still BIG into velociraptors. It wasn't until I decided to literally roll-for-species that I got into deer, then things snowballed from there. But that's another story.
This one is mostly a kind of authorial catharsis. I was a year out of high school in 1996, so it was still fresh in my mind.
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Works in Progress 
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