Three stories now available on Kindle Vella
I have started three stories on Kindle Vella, two science fiction, and one fantasy. The first, Viking of Asgard, I drafted over two years ago. I began my rewriting this one over a year ago, having each chapter professionally edited and then publishing it on Vella. Now it has twenty chapters published and I will continue to add to this as a rewrite once chapters get professionally edited. It is…
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Set more than a thousand years after Kara Discovered mankind has built cities on Kara far larger than they have on any planet. Roger is a college kid that broke the law and now need to flee beyond the reach of Civilization. https://reamstories.com/jamesrsteinhaus
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The overhead lights went out. A soft, warm light filled the classroom. Billy looked up from his book. A man putting down a match from lighting a huge three-foot candle stood next to the teacher’s desk. He turned. “Welcome to witchcraft 101,” his deep voice filling the room far better than the English teacher’s had. “I am a witch. Your witchcraft lesson is 13 hours long. That’s how long this…
Now in her early twenties, Ashes has become comfortable as an apprentice studying healing, when her mistress sends her on an errand in a far distant town. Little does she realize it is a one-way trip and she will lose everything but what she is carrying. She is a sorceress and has her freedom now, but at a terrible cost. Read chapter IV of A Fall of Ashes, Sorceress, on Kindle Vella or…
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Happy New Year everyone. With the New Year I have added a new project, Donald Of Mars to my on-going story Viking of Asgard I started last year. I have in the past done quite a few blogs on many of the challenges of colonizing mars on the site Eptle.WordPress.com. In this new project, I am having my protagonist Donald overcome and deal with many of these things as a way of making them clear to…
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The reward for Ashes is high, so is the fear of displeasing the mysterious Mistress Gru. Ashes’ best chance isn’t avoiding the searcher but being someone they would never suspect of being the young sorceress they seek. available on Kindle Vella and Patreon.
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Over a month ago, my drip coffee maker broke. instead of getting a new one of fixing it, I have been boil water with coffee in it then poring that into the filter by hand. Doing that I use less than half the coffee for a far better tasting cup. Drip coffeemaker are wasteful. They also use more electric than I realized, keeping your coffee hot.
Spoiler: King Peter is an Avatar!
Some of my test readers of Vikings of Asgard have asked me about the character King Peter. Here is a partial spoiler; He is an Avatar. But unlike the movie Avatar, anyone that sits in the operator chair can operate him and when no one is in it, the AI runs him. Junior researchers mostly operate him. Asgard is their experiment. One of thousands, in fact. They have as little regard for the people…
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A short Flash Fiction for your enjoyment.
What if at the dawn of civilization