Flags of the Jovian Confederacy
I came up with some flag designs for a fictional nation in my science fiction universe - one that inhabits the moons of Jupiter.
Read MoreSkink
The lizard scrambled up the wall, toes seeking tiny ledges in the sandstone brick. At the top she basked briefly in warmth, bubbling up from the brick and beaming down from above. Her forked tongue flicked out. A pungent odor. Human. A shadow fell across her and she dove for cover in the greens beyond.
Read MoreOcean Ghosts
A cloud of fragile spectres drifts through the darkness.
A slow, clumsy whirlwind moves through them, carving a path through the helpless motes.
They are left battered and torn in the giants' wake, forthwith replaced.
Seeing in the Dark
“Why does the darkness frighten us?”
She hung in a lightless void. The manacles in which her wrists and ankles were bound stretched her spread-eagled. Only her own thoughts accompanied her.
Chains
Here at the chains of the world, the bonds that hold existence intact, you see everything. Everything becomes clear. You see the stars growing and shrinking as they draw ever nearer to their eventual collapse. You see the gases moving between nurseries. You see the rocks hurtling through the void, and clinging to them in earnest, the races, with their wars, their treaties. You can see the hate, the love, the loss. You see, and you understand.
Read MorePitcher in the Hive
Hanging from a tree beside the path was a beehive.
Read MorePrivate Display
“That is a secret, private world you’re looking into out there. People do a lot of things in private they couldn’t possibly explain in public.” – Detective Lieutenant Thomas J. Doyle, Rear Window
Read MoreBroken Hill Sunset
Spearshafts of light punch a hole through the cloud, and below a wisp of cloud shines a new orange. Then the sun emerges from its vaporous womb, flooding the sky with brilliance.
Read MoreColours
Her eyes were blue. They probably still are. An understated grey-blue, neither pale nor dark, a shade which haunted both my dreams and my waking thoughts for every hour of my life during that time, and for years after. Sad eyes, looking at me from behind the glasses which she disliked so much, but which had become somehow synonymous with her image in my mind. My memories of that blissful time will always be of that grey-blue which attracted me so. And of silver, the silver light that played between her hands as she created.
Read MoreBlack Cat's City (Schippeitaro)
Hey, you. Yes, you. Don't look at me like that. Come over here. I haven't seen you around before. Enjoying your stay in the city? Hah. Of course not. Who could enjoy such a filthy, worm-ridden hole as this? This city has gone to hell these past few years. Drugs, crime, gangs. The gangs control everything. Steel wool couldn't scrub clean this city’s soul.
Read MoreNew Wiki Article: Mrithi
The Vagarist, my correspondent from Verse 1.3.1, has posted an article on the Web of Worlds Wiki about Mrithi! Mrithi are the elephant descendants that, after human extinction in the early 22nd century, evolved to become Earth's second technological species. Recently, the species featured in my story Intro to House-Ape Studies. Click the link below to find out more.
The Quarry Issue #10 is live! →
The Quarry Issue #10 is up and running! After all the blood, sweat and words put in by my class and the editorial team, it's good to go!
The Quarry is an annual journal put out by Macquarie University, to showcase work from the graduating class. I was on the editorial team this year, and I helped edit several of the pieces up there.
Things I had a more direct role in are the fiction editorial, which I had a minor hand in writing, and Intro to House-Ape Studies, which is a story I wrote!
A physical version is coming out in a few weeks, which you can buy here.
Cover art by Ailie MacKenzie, Design by Teresa Peni
Whale-kenning (Old English-style poem)
One of my few attempts at poetry, this is from back in high school when we were studying Beowulf - it's meant to be in the style of an Old English poem, with a split line structure - full of caesuras and kennings. Not sure how it holds up, but I don't mind it.
Read MoreWeb of Worlds Wiki
Today I'm launching the Web of Worlds Wiki, which is our new repository for information on a vast myriad of worlds - kindly provided by collaborators across multiple universes. We have started with an article on Planet Eaters, which you may recognise from my short story. The article (written by The Locksmith, my Verse 12 correspondent) presents some known details about their biology and behaviour. We plan to build on the Wiki for some time, with further information about the worlds in the stories on this site. Please enjoy!
Another three chapters of a different novel I'll definitely finish some day
Seeds is a science fiction novel (in progress) set in a far future, following a society of humans that travels from star to star and seeds their planets with life.
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