Creative Work Lazy Gun: A Science Fiction Story Posted on February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 By Roo This was a short story and essay reflection that I wrote for a class called Data Narratives. 0 The uncertain darkness of the station was interrupted by advancing headlights. A screech accompanied them, seeming to reverberate from all around as the tram car pulled in. The landing was transformed: what… Read more
Creative Work The Tricycle Posted on December 17, 2024February 15, 2026 By Roo Even before he gave me the tricycle, I knew how things were going to go. To Rick, life had always been one big joke. For our first anniversary, he took me to his cabin on a lake several miles north of the city, where kids would bike to and fro… Read more
Creative Work The Thousand Lives of George Argyris Posted on April 26, 2024February 15, 2026 By Roo It was back in the time before the electric light, when people still walked on air, and the volcanoes spat water instead of fire, and the sparrows pecked at the frozen pigs’ carcasses which lay scattered about outside the entrance to the home of the Professor George Argyris, which stretched,… Read more
Book Chapters Oyster Island Chapter 1 Posted on May 1, 2023February 15, 2026 By Roo As I stepped out of the car I couldn’t hear or see anything in the dark night except the faint rustling of leaves high above and the light of my parents’ house up on the ridge. Behind the house to the west, I knew, was a steep dropoff, ending in… Read more
Creative Work Time Posted on April 9, 2023February 15, 2026 By Roo Note: Written for a flash fiction assignment – the maximum word count was 500. In its time, the town of Mudgate, now lost to the ages, squatted unassumingly in a remote section of river-bottom country between two yet unnamed peaks covered with forests and meadows and frequented by butterflies and… Read more
Revenge: Part 3 (Gainesburg, Mercia: Early February, 1014 A.D.) Posted on September 7, 2022February 15, 2026 By Roo The law speaker cleared his throat. “We now convene this Thing-Court to discuss the taxation of the city of Beodricsworth, the resting place of Saint Edmund the Martyr. By the laws of the realm, the kingdom may tax any town it wishes, within reason. We will now hear the grievances… Read more
Revenge: Part 2 (Walingeford, Berkshire: 1013 A.D.) Posted on August 30, 2022February 15, 2026 By Roo By the time the sun rose, Svein Forkbeard, King of Norway and Denmark, soon to be King of England, could see the thatch roofs peeking over the fenced earthworks of Walingeford in the distance. They docked on the shore a mile south of the city and set up camp in… Read more
Revenge: Part 1 (Several miles outside Thetford, East Anglia: 869 A.D.) Posted on August 12, 2022February 15, 2026 By Roo “King Edmund of East Anglia!” Ivar bellowed, his brow creasing in mock consternation. “I am humbled to be in your presence.” As he spoke, a gust of wind tugged at his beard and ruffled the fur of his coat. He placed his foot gently on Edmund’s chest as his contingents… Read more