Audiobooks

(29 mins) Behind the scenes on the day the universe was created. The Architect creates the cosmos and the archangels Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer follow along in wonder and amazement.

But drama ensues when Lucifer takes personal offense at the creation of humans, when the Architect endows them with the capacity for reason.

I called this story “Nihilo” because it is literally nothing. I do not claim to be inspired. If a reader objects to my suggestion of a story to explain the origin of Satan or the universe, he need only remember the name of the story. It is nothing.

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(32 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 an allegory of my journey of both the writing and the subsequent task of finding a publisher. I wrote it in a voice that some readers have compared to Edgar Allen Poe, which is not surprising. Poe and I share a middle name.

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(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 atheist who seems to have it all together. But she is surrounded by deeply broken people who nevertheless lead lives of meaning and communion with divine mystery.

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(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 here.

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 does not know that his programming was hijacked by scientists who made him do it. He seeks forgiveness and restitution. But robots don’t get forgiveness.

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