Audiobooks
Nihilo
(29 mins) This is the story of amazement, horror, and ultimately rebellion that takes place behind the scenes on the day the universe was created.
The “Architect Most Glorious” creates the cosmos, and the archangels Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer follow along in discussing and trying to understand what it means.
But when The Architect endows his new physical human with the spiritual virtue of reason, some spirit beings view it as a betrayal and an insult.
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Malefic
(33 mins) “Malefic” was published in 2014 by Chupa Cabra House Publishing and again in 2016 by God and Nature Magazine, a publication of The American Scientific Affiliation.
An eccentric inventor procures a strange collection of ingredients while searching for a new hobby. But his miraculous new creation is not what he expected. It might be his undoing.
This story was inspired by my experience writing my first novel, The Former Hero. It is written in a voice that readers have compared to Edgar Allen Poe, which is not surprising. Poe and I share a middle name.
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Under The Sun
(27 mins) “Under The Sun” was published in July 2023 by Radix Magazine and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Cissy Rae is a no-nonsense moralizing do-gooder who is stalked by the smell of “something dead.”
She is alarmed by the chaos around her—addiction, abuse, self-harm, vagrancy. Nevertheless addicts and victims lead lives of more meaning, beauty, and communion with divine mystery than she does
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Tegmark's Sin - excerpt
(14 mins) This version of “Tegmark’s Sin” is the version read at Tesoros Bellos on May 31 2025. It is abbreviated to focus on the inner life of the robot named Tegmark. The human drama is omitted in this excerpt.
Tegmark is a robot programmed never to harm humans. Yet one day, he kills an important man. How could this be possible, he wonders.
He is unaware that his programming was hijacked by his creator scientists who made him do it. He seeks forgiveness and restitution for the murder. But robots don’t get forgiveness.
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Blog Posts
My faith journey part 1
My faith journey has been an unusual one. I say this because, judging from dozens of friends and acquaintances around the country, it is uncommon for a person raised with conservative values and politics, as I was, to swerve from that ethos to something else. Why is...
Two new articles
It's been a busy couple of weeks. First, by popular demand, I've rolled out audio versions of some short stories. You can listen to them in the car or while exercising. They can be found at this link on my website. Second, some of my readers may not know, or may have...
Audio-short stories now available
Hello friends, It's been a while, hasn't it! You don't get much email from me. That's because I make it a policy not to become annoying with too frequent blog posts filling your inbox that you probably, if you are like me, must endure every day. I'm trying to be...
Calling all Catholics
Writing a modernized account of the biblical gospel comes with a new challenge I've never encountered in fiction writing. I continue to add material to my forthcoming book Blue Gospel, and I've recently added an account of the central figure's birth by a young girl...
PSA: Whitworth Writer’s Workshop
You may have heard that my Alma Mater, the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University, will come to an end this August. I and my fellow students cannot express our heartbreak at learning that forces within the conservative board and administration had decided to fire...