Greg’s Internet Fiction Library:    

New Stories, New Systems

This page is the online home to my free fiction. Or, at least, these stories are free for you, now. They were paid for by generous fans who wanted them badly enough to pay a reasonable price through www.kickstarter.com. Now everyone with internet access can enjoy them as well.

Now Available: Falling

Set in the same suburban American budo school as Shrimp, Falling shows Bruce Blackwood gradually trying to improve his techniques, while introducing Karl, who’s rich, handsome, accomplished and seems to have everything under control. But considering who wrote this, how likely is that?

Up For Ransom: Whatever Happened to Lala?

If you’ve read Mask of the Other,, some of the characters in my next offering are already familiar. If you haven’t read it, I won’t say who, for fear of spoilers. That’s highly relevant because one of the premiums you can choose, if you support the story’s Kickstarter drive, is a copy of the book, and you can apply the full purchase cost to liberating the 5500 word sequel as well. I may not be explaining it well, but click the link and see. Trust me.

While Mask of the Other is a Lovecraftian horror novel, Whatever Happened to Lala? focuses on the human, not the uncanny. In some ways, it’s my examination of what happens to people who confront Mythos aberrations, only to come home and find entirely mundane and human wretchedness staring them in the face. It’s more similar to A Hole in the Darkness or These People Mean Nothing to Each Other than A Wind at the Window or Icke. But like all of them, it ultimately comes down to soft people trying to make hard choices.

Now For Sale: Mask of the Other

My newest book, Mask of the Other is a military science-horror novel that builds on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. A squad of US soldiers steals the centerpiece of Saddam’s occult weapons program in 1991 and just gets deeper and deeper into the horrors of the Cthulhu mythos. Read more about it here, including a free sample chapter. Or you can check out its first review!

Also For Sale: SWITCHFLIPPED

My novel, SWITCHFLIPPED is available right now -- click that link and you could be reading it in mere minutes after buying it from Ghostwoods Books, a new Fair Trade Publishing initiative from British publisher Tim Dedopulous. If you prefer waiting and having tangible objects, SWITCHFLIPPED is now available as a bound volume.

Alternately, you can get it for the exact same price while supporting the free release of a sequel novella, 7 and 7. Click the link, O curious one.

Realism

Shrimp. A taciturn judo instructor unexpectedly tells a chilling story about his childhood. ePub File

Falling. Martial arts students try to avoid getting hurt when they lose control of themselves. ePub File

A Hole in the Darkness. A cop and a crook drive out in the middle of nowhere, late at night, and dig a grave. Then they try to decide who has to get in it. ePub File

Two Things She Does With Her Body. A piece of brief, character-driven literary fiction (meaning “neither pornography, mystery nor fantasy”) based very loosely on someone I met at the dojo. ePub File

These People Mean Nothing to Each Other. A rancid slice-of-life illuminating four self-absorbed pieces that fit together into something much more sinister ePub File

Regret, With Math. The award-winning story of love, death, choice, and multiple-universe theory. ePub File

Someday, Laughter. A brief thing, prompted by the detonated fiction experiment. A short, bruising story about teenage theater humiliation. ePub File

Fantasy Fiction

The Doom of Swords. My first podcast experiment is imperfect, but it was free, after all. It's from the setting of REIGN. and is soon to be available in text form in Worlds of Their Own. It has swordplay, adultery, revenge, and an incontinent donkey.

Modern Bizarre

7 and 7. The novella sequel to SWITCHFLIPPED has Kung Fu, despair, and pillow talk on index cards. ePub File

Emily Speaks. A bit of near-future fiction concerning the monetization of a woman’s voice. ePub File

ENZYMES. He thinks he used to be human, but the question is, what does that mean for him and his mission? ePub File

A Wind at the Window. A story of icy calculation, burning revenge, and mysterious death set in Finland. ePub File

In the Blindness of the Glare. As part of the Ardwin ransom, I agreed to write a story incorporating ten elements demanded by donors of $50 or more. Here is that story. It is not tidy, but hopefully fun. (One element was that I had to include myself as a character. Otherwise, I don’t do that.) ePub File

Zombis Blanc. If anyone could possibly deserve to be chased, manhandled, drugged, beaten, drugged again and forced to toil for jeering captors, it’s the protagonists of this story. It’s set in the slave revolt of 1791 and based on medical fact. ePub File

Icke. Have you ever wondered what a school shooter with fish telepathy would be like? The answer I came up with was far more grim than would have expected. ePub File

A Long, Romantic Weekend. The wreckage of my first attempt to ransom fiction, which ran aground on the reefs of long-form uncertainty. I had a lot of fun writing this, though. The first time major characters get introduced, you get a catalogue of their body scars. It also features a car crash, impromptu surgery, and a tornado. As you might surmise, the title is ironic. ePub File

Ghosts: The Straight Dope. Reluctant as I am to write stories about writers, this one also has possession, cruel magic, epic halitosis and oh so much alcohol. ePub File