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: Shrimp

For a couple decades now, I have studied the martial arts. I can’t quite say why, but I’ve always been quite shy about that fact with my writing colleagues, just as I’ve always been reticent about my writing with the other folks at the dojo. But a suburban American bushido school in the 21st century is a fascinating place full of fascinating people. It’s a theme I’ve touched on before, as you can read for yourself if you scroll down to Two Things She Does With Her Body and, to a lesser extent, Regret, With Math. Now, there is another.

Shrimp is about a kids’ judo class. But it’s really about one of the adults teaching the class. Which means it’s really truly about his divorce and his secret fears and his childhood and, oh, all kinds of dark and understated stuff. With the help of my ever-reliable fans, it has been funded and is now availble to you, the public, in PDF format or ePub.

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

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

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