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Fiction

“The Goddess in Him”

NewMyths.com, September 2020

Bards and Sages Quarterly October 2018 cover

“The Pilgrim's Yoke”

Bards and Sages Quarterly, October 2018

A Bactrian bodhisattva's head

“In the Ruins of Shambhala”

600 Second Saga, September 2017

Poems

“Sir Arthur Evans”

Lantern Magazine, May 4th, 2021

Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash

"Dream: If you feed the banana to the computer, a hitman receives his orders”

Lantern Magazine, December 29th, 2020

Photo by Louis Hansel on Unsplash

"Horologium”

Lantern Magazine, December 20th, 2020

Photo by Rhii Photography on Unsplash

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