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Fiction Portfolio

The Goddess in Him, NewMyths.com, September 2020

The Pilgrim’s Yoke, Bards & Sages Quarterly, October 2018

In the Ruins of Shambhala, 600 Second Saga, August 2017

Bloody Caesar, SPACE (Sciences Participating with the Arts and Culture in Education), September 2011

(See my official nonfiction portfolio too.)

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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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