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Genre Bending Speculative Fiction Author
The Art Makers
All of the art you see here—and throughout this site—is made by humans. I collaborate with artists to create images inspired by my short stories and scenes from my novels. The short fiction is free to read on my Substack. The novels will arrive when they’re good and ready for you.
I lean toward outsider artists (that is, self-taught). But some collaborators are formally trained. Many are just getting started. What they share is a willingness to play. The point of these collaborations is simple: to offer exposure to skilled and unique human artists.
Click an image and you’ll be taken to the artist’s Instagram, where you can explore more of their work—and maybe give them a follow. That small act matters more than you might think.
You can read more about how these collaborations came together here.
And if you’re an artist who feels a tug while wandering this page, you’re welcome in the sandbox. Hit the contact button and let me know.
 The Time Reckoner ~ Kimberly MorrisonShort Story ~ The Time Reckoner's Log |  Mor'anai ~ Art by C0dexVerdigrisShort Story ~ Mor'anai, Phantom Queen of City Forest. |  BB + Button ~ Art by C0dexVerdigrisShort Story ~ BB + Button. |  Silences of Engledale ~ Art by KidViciousShort Story ~ The Silences of Engledale |  Spooky Moon ~ Mathew JacksonShort Story ~ Finding a Whisper in Wind |
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 Broken Robots ~ C0dexverdigrisShort Story ~ Broken Robots of a Derelict God |  ~ BlancanvasartShort Story ~ Big Red Jeep |  Love's Blue Flame ~ LunamiShort Story ~ Awaiting My Beloved's Blue Flame |  Stay Close to Me, Stay in the Light" ~ Puppy Warlord.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "She pulls her torch loose from the circle of stones. The trio walk back down the trail in bubbles of flickering light." |  The Whisper ~ Alita.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "As Shyaklá, her beloved, and friends tell the whisper on …" |
 History Class ~ Margi Makes Art.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. “The simple movement of his body brings back the memory clear and clean to him every time. He is seven years old, crouching next to his father in a field of wheat, waist high, golden and bobbing in a gusting wind. Its dense, tight smell. The dry soil crumbling between his fingers as they wait. In the distance, under a dark gray sky, the men edge the woods.” |  The Final Onslaught of Lawrence ~ c0dexverdigris.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "Halfway across the bridge’s 3000-meter span, hundreds of cloaked and hooded figures stream toward the Enclave, unfazed by the pelting rain. The pounding of their heavy boots and the clomps of the dozen on horseback out of synch and chaotic, a thousand hail stones pinging off a tin roof." |  Heart Time ~ Toblerone Tokić.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. “Yes. And this is where I belong. |  Two Stones ~ Thomas LuceroScene from One Fire, Many Flames. "Like a lonely piece of chalk scratching against a blackboard, Salome etches a line between two stones. One, a welcoming blue inlaid with vibrant greens and rich browns, the other veiled in white hiding hellish heat, crushing pressures, and toxic rains. One planet brimming with life—self-aware, perceptive, and feeling. The other long dead." |  Cathedral of Chartres ~ Aeons.Exe.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "This place reminds me of a story: The Cathedral of Chartres. It burned to the ground way back in the day. Lightning. From all over the countryside, people came to rebuild it. Some from hundreds of miles away. Masons. Brick layers. Carpenters. And to this day, nobody knows who built the Cathedral of Chartres.” She smiles. I believe that can be us.” |
 Written in Our DNA ~ Whitney Calametti.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "The reason we put it here, this traveler from beyond our blue sky, is to remind us that just like the hum of history vibrating in our veins so to is the hum of the universe and what we together send forth is the hum of the future.” |  Shyaklá's Voice ~ Internet Bizarre.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "The story of her journey wants to erupt. But no words will form. No sound issues. She touches her throat. My voice. She reels, the whisper trapped inside her." |  Terror on the Hilltop ~ Corvus DemonicusScene from One Fire, Many Flames. "Another strike of lightning crackles across dark clouds. Through the double wide door formed by streaming blue strings, bursts a shadow, heaving, hunched, and issuing a grotesque grumbling." |  Dragon Seed ~ DejInk.Art.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. “You will find the chest of abominations. Smash the letter into bits. The demon seeds you will destroy. The pod, as they call it, you will bring to me." |  The Source ~ Nagihan YILDIZ.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western ways of knowing and to using both of these eyes together.” ~ Elder Albert Marshal |
 Shyaklá's Whisper from Away ~ Thomas LuceroScene from One Fire, Many Flames. Thomas was kind enough to bring to life this conceptual cover for One Fire, Many Flames. |  Subtropolis ~ Jessica Longstreth.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "The six stand before the cave's gaping, dark mouth. Its concrete rectangular jaw crumbling away as the hillside slowly eats it." |  Stranger from Afar ~ Noxxilum.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "Shyaklá peers into the dark at the form. She is vaguely aware of her cast of little ones retreating to their parents who are now standing, ready to fend off whoever or whatever is invading their community." |  Sam's Encounter on the Far Side ~ Stephen Odom.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "The shake moves from his hands up his arms and into his torso. In his bulbous EVA suit, he feels like a wiggling white leaf, a blurring ghost." |  Sunny Copernicus - Tomrrow's Horizon.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. “It’s important to know your history, so you can take what’s good and make more of it and leave what ain’t to the past. Teacher Carlo says it best, he says, A dream can be taught and realized across time, space, and generations—if it is shared.” |
 Fires Map ~ Ulli Hain.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. “Do you think they are not only spirits but something else too?” “Like what?” “Like fires.” |  The Dream that is Next ~ Toblerone TokićScene from One Fire, Many Flames. "Where her bones are put to rest and long after, a silver oak blooms." |  Maya on the Hilltop ~ Faces Painted.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "Hand on her womb, Maya murmurs,“Where’d you go?" |  Flaw in my Code ~ Still Talk to the Moon.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "John’s eyes slip behind a curtain into a memory, the worst memory. The one he won’t share." |  Alex Switzer ~ Still Home.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. “No no no. We’ve been over this. We mind our own and you stay the hell away from us. It took the whole world going to shit so we could get back what’s ours. We’ll let you live where you do but you keep the hell away from us.” |
 Hoops ~ Obscure Mistress Art.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.” Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk), Wičháša Wakȟáŋ of the Oglala Sioux Nation, Black Elk Speaks |  "Bellana's Prayer" by Lala Lolleyland.Scene from One Fire, Many Flames. "A gray morning haze surrounds Bellana. She unfurls a rectangle of purple, roughhewn cloth, and lays it before a stump ringed by apple trees. She kneels and lights a red candle while an arc of pictured ancestors watches." |  No. 88 - Toblerone Tokić.I want to give a special shout out to Toblerone who generously made TEN! different headshots of me based on a selfie I sent him. You'll see a couple peppered throughout the site. This particular piece I loved so much I asked if I could use it and he was kind enough to say yes. The longing in it, captures a specific moment in One Fire, Many Flames. |
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