A Simple Tale – The Egg Bowl

Before I replaced my computer, I wrote this simple short story on a mobile device. It’s less than two pages and it is born from a very personal place. Just a little bit of fiction with an honest heart. – – – – The Egg Bowl by Carissa Starr It felt like desperation and he […]

I Am A Wizard

Anyone familiar with Jim Butcher’s “Dresden Files” is familiar with the idea that ‘wizards plus technology equals catastrophe’. Well I, my friends, am a wizard. Not a terribly powerful one, mind you. My powers ebb and flow, but the number of computers that have died at my fingertips has recently increased by one and that […]

Revisiting “Kajosika”

In the begininning of last year, I wrote a rather ambitious story. It is a lengthier short story, not long enough to be a novella, so I broke it into two parts. The story is called “Kajosika” and in it I very openly attack a lot of social ills: income inequality, social stigmatization of the […]

Sci-Fi Shorts

I write a variety of things for my Patreon page. Lately it has been mostly short stories. In the past, however, I have written scripts, shared chapters of novels as I worked on them, written a random poem/song. I try to keep things interesting for readers and for me. The most recent posting was a […]

Sleep Tight Firetide Blog

Many of the posts here on my site are chapter excerpts from ‘When Comes the Firetide: Emergents’ that then link to my old Firetide Work-in-Progress blog where I used to post whole chapters up to be read as I finished them. I did this with the first book, and then again with the second book, […]

Pursuit of Justice

The story linked below is a unique Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons hybrid, not the sort of story I typically write. It came to me out of a request from a friend, Ash Isengrim, a Dungeon Master. He had created two characters, Graves Chi’tral and Beato Aesalon (both in this story). They were a […]

Toss a Coin to Your Writer

Now that song is in everyone’s heads…(I know, I’m evil.) Did you know I have a Patreon page? I don’t shout about it a whole lot. I am, admittedly, pretty bad at salesmanship. I’ve had sales jobs in the past and while people liked me, they generally did not buy from me. I was too […]

Welcome to the new site!

Can you smell it? That new website smell? Well, it’s just a spray. This isn’t *brand* new. It’s not NEW new. I actually just ported my old site over onto this one with a new template and had to do some reshuffling, then did a little rewriting and slapped some shiny on her and BAMM! […]

Download my book FREE

In the hope of attracting more reviews, from April 16th through April 20th my book “When Comes the Firetide: Inundation” is FREE TO DOWNLOAD on Amazon. Enjoy and please spread the word. “When Comes the Firetide: Inundation” “Tybraes is an unforgiving world, splintered by races at war convinced their fundamental differences far outweigh any common […]

WHEN COMES THE FIRETIDE: EMERGENTS | Chapter Fourteen

NOTE: This story contains depictions and themes that are mature in nature. If you find the use of foul language or the depiction of sexuality and violence to be distasteful, it may not be for you.  Some content may also be sensitive in nature for some readers. (Please heed this.) This is an excerpt.  You can […]