EVOLVINGMAGIC

(AKA James Rossiter)
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PUBLISHED WORKS OF FICTION

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decorative image This story was my second paid fiction sale and was published in Surge: A Dragon Soul Press Anthology in 2022.

This cyberpunk story is set in the future, around 2097 or so, in Phoenix, Arizona. It describes what heppens to a man who is down on his luck, but finds something that may help him turn it all around. Fiction being what it is, the unexpected follows.

While reading just fine as a stand-alone story, this story also ties into a larger series of stories I'm creating which are a mix of cyberpunk and fantasy.

Give it a read if you're curious about what happens when someone finds a piece of pre-cataclysm technology.

THREE DARK STORIES

decorative image My first set of self-published stories are available on Kindle Unlimited.
This collection presents a darker side of fantastical things.

The Wild

Follow a young man on a harrowing journey through the wilds of the Midwest.

The Pact

Watch a group of desperate people make a pact which carries a heavy price.

The Mirror

Hear the unsavory thoughts of a young man who inherits a magic mirror.

COFFIN RIDER

decorative image This story was my first paid fiction sale and was published in Beyond the Stars: Infinite Expanse: a space opera anthology in 2020.

This story was inspired by a book called Last Post: The Final Words from Our Soldiers of the Great War by Max Arthur. That 2004 book is a series of short interviews with the final twenty-four surviving British veterans of World War I. Their descriptions of the war, their lives afterwards, and their thoughts about what it all meant to them was deeply moving and has stayed with me since I read it. Getting a glimpse into their lives shows how much the world has changed.

I plan to write a novel that tells the full story of the space war alluded to in this story from a variety of perspectives, but the experience of Jonathan Casper Huang demanded to be told first.

We should never forget that war is not just a topic in history class or an abstract force of nature; war is violence fueled by the lives of people.

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