Fractured Realities: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fractured Realities redefines Science Fiction and Fantasy, collecting the best works of an author in his prime into a single volume for the first time ever. In this tome you will find stories of cyberpunk, alien invasion, strange infections, and stories of himanity's very end.

In Sounds for Crustaceans, originally published in Fantasy Magazine, the protagonist discovers they are turning into a crab and seeks acceptance and understanding from their partner in a painful story about finding ourselves and treating the world with kindness.

In Hard Memory, our protagonist is a detective in search of a hacker who spreads depression throughout the city with electrical emotional manipulation, but finds something much darker in the process.

In Mycelium Dreams, the sole survivor of a shuttle's alien fungal infection converses with the thing which killed his crew and tries to understand the motivations of something which has a different understanding of life itself.

In Spill-Free and Sparkling, a shipboard cleaning system deals with a dire situation while unaware of the realities facing the crew, all in the name of perfect cleanliness.

In A Golem Made of You, our protagonist encounters failure, disgust, and desire as a parasite overtakes his ship, leading him to question his humanity and the unbearable burden of loneliness.

In Aspiration Extermination, we view a robot apocalypse through the optics of the mundane and the workers who clear the earth of humanity, despite the tedium of the task.

To the Plains of Etherea is the story of an adventurer facing the loss of his companion who has been by his side through all of their struggles. It's a heart-rending tale of perseverance and deepest caring.

Interview with Julie Fairweather, Star of Lawnmower Hands, is a story of utmost decadence in the form of a magazine interview, shining a light on the depravity that hides in ignoring the truth.

Their Hands Will Carry You Home asks what we would be willing to give for the return of the one we love, and how much sacrifice is too much.

The stories in this collection are all interspersed with tiny drabbles - stories themselves in small, 100-word snippets.

Inside you will find:

Alien Taxidermy and Love Have Four Things in Common

Hard Memory

Reflection

Fancy and Fish Hearts

I Grow

Sounds for Crustaceans

Memory and Steel

Hope for Enthos

The Psychic Fish Hates You

The Legend of Johnny C

To the Water Goes My Pain

Mycelium Dreams

To Fly on Gentle Wings

Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves

A Mark Deeper Than Flesh

Spill-Free and Sparkling

His Monstrous Cloaca

A Golem Made of You

By Moonlight Guided

Containment

The Devil's in the Details

Aspiration Extermination

My Ship to the Depths

The Locked Prophet

The Oathtaker, Servant of Draghtai the Undying

A Mind Not My Own

Not Good Enough

With Hands Unstilled

For You I Return

To the Plains of Etherea

An Itemized List of Charitable Contributions

With Dreams in Her Hair

Interview with Julie Fairweather, Star of Lawnmower Hands

A Drink to Return to the Sea

How to Build a Sexbot to Love and Cherish You

Their Hands Will Carry You Home

And Two Shall Take Its Place

To Worlds Within

Your Robot Horoscope for the Day of Reclamation

Unfleshed

Vessel

Witness for the Dead

Ships Rise over Apple Valley

Sweet Words from Acid Lips

And much more!

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