WRITING

Novels

Earwig produces fiction that strays from the path and skitters where it will.

Books
The Daughter of Dark Space (2025)
Of Dark Space, Speculative Fiction, Scifi, Mars, Psychological
The Daughter of Dark Space (2025)
Of Dark Space, Speculative Fiction, Scifi, Mars, Psychological

Everyone has left Marine behind.

Now it’s her turn.

This second installment in the speculative psycho-fantasy Of Dark Space series, follows Marine, as she takes matters into her own hands, and leaves her backwater home.

Of Dark Space, Speculative Fiction, Scifi, Mars, Psychological
The Mother of Dark Space
MODSbook, Of Dark Space, Scifi, Mars, Terradome, Strong Female lead, Speculative Fiction
The Mother of Dark Space
MODSbook, Of Dark Space, Scifi, Mars, Terradome, Strong Female lead, Speculative Fiction

Dr. Rae Dahlia didn’t come to Mars to be one of the few women scientists, pampered and ogled like some exotic species; and she certainly didn’t come to waste her time testing ice core samples...

MODSbook, Of Dark Space, Scifi, Mars, Terradome, Strong Female lead, Speculative Fiction
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Reconsolidation
neuroscience, thriller, scifi, mindbender
Reconsolidation
neuroscience, thriller, scifi, mindbender

“Your future is built on your past.” ~OriNeuro

“We’ve all seen those pop-up warnings when we stray into the sticky back-alleys of the internet. The flashing icons and caps-locked text which shout, YOU’VE DOWNLOADED MALWARE!

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neuroscience, thriller, scifi, mindbender
Purple prose, 100 words, apocalypse
Burnt Umber
Purple prose, 100 words, apocalypse

So there's this sub genre of writing called purple prose which Wikipedia defines as, "text that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself."

Having run across a purple prose contest for an 100 word apocalypses story I wrote this little gem:

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Purple prose, 100 words, apocalypse
First Knife:
Children, fantasy, rite of passage, nature, adventure
First Knife:
Children, fantasy, rite of passage, nature, adventure

A sweet story about a young boy is on the path to becoming a Ranger, who is sent out of his village on a rite of passage quest.

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Children, fantasy, rite of passage, nature, adventure
Fail Safe
Multiverse, short, organs, dimensions, suspence
Fail Safe
Multiverse, short, organs, dimensions, suspence

A short story for a Wattpad sci-fi contest where we were asked to make an evil corporation with access to multiple versions of reality, and how they would exploit it.

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Multiverse, short, organs, dimensions, suspence

Reality Fan Fiction…

was a writing challenge I set to take two ideas or motifs from reality, combine them into a premise, and write a short story about it in four hours or less. Read more about my restrictions in the RULES post.

Also some of them have very bad narration from when I was practicing doing a podcast.