The Gilded Gag
The Gilded Gag follows Marcus Reid, a struggling writer with more unfinished drafts than finished excuses.
Genre: Contemporary Comic Satire, Literary Fiction172 words1 min readOutline
My Fiction Archive
Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Novelettes, Novella and Novels.
Narrative is the home for my fiction, from flash pieces and short stories to longer projects and novels. Some pieces are finished. Some are still being worked on.
Latest Entries
The Kintsugi Echo and the Golden Flaw
The final danger is not destruction. It is seduction. When the past begins offering perfect alternatives, old comforts, and the chance to undo every wound, the team must choose between a flawless dream and the damaged world they fought to keep—16 Chapters; circa 56,000 words.
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction47 words1 min readOutline
The Cartographer’s Paradox and the Unmappable Heart
Some things cannot be measured without being damaged. When a new threat begins mapping WHAT!, classifying its mysteries, and reducing the unknowable to tidy systems, the team must protect the one thing no chart can hold: what a place means from the inside—16 Chapters; circa 59,000 words.
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction49 words1 min readOutline
The Empathy Problem and the Borrowed Feeling
Chaos was one thing. Forced harmony may be worse. When people begin to grow calmer, kinder, and strangely less themselves, the team uncovers a threat that does not want to destroy humanity but to smooth it into something safer and emptier—16 Chapters; circa 31,000 words.
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction47 words1 min readOutline
The Kintsugi Principle
Reality is breaking again, but this time the answer may not be repair. As cracks spread through the world they have fought to save, Vic and the team are forced towards a reckless idea: perhaps the flaw is not the weakness. Perhaps it is the strength—12 Chapters; circa 25,500 words.
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction52 words1 min readOutline
The Shadow, the Doubt, and the Sentient Metaphor
At WHAT! Language is no longer staying on the page. Metaphors begin to manifest, doubt takes on shape, and meaning itself turns unstable. As words become dangerous in new ways, the team faces an enemy that need not break reality. It only needs to be rewritten—12 Chapters; circa 21,000 words
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction52 words1 min readOutline
The Socio-Ontological Function of a Nice Cup of Tea
Reality has been saved before. Keeping it human may be harder. When a colder, tidier order begins pressing in on WHAT!, Vic and the team must defend the small, inefficient rituals that make life worth living, from tea breaks to jokes to the right to pause for no good reason—12 Chapters; circa 30,000 words.
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction56 words1 min readOutline
The Viction Particle
Thought is becoming dangerous. Emotions are starting to alter the fabric of reality, and the team at WHAT! uncover a force that may connect feeling, matter, and existence itself. Then the auditors arrive, and they have no patience for joy, accident, or human mess—12 Chapters; circa 28,000 words.
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction50 words1 min readOutline
Geoff, Schrödy and the Conceptual Wardrobe
The biscuits were only the beginning. Now, a theoretical man called Geoff has appeared, documents are developing opinions, and the boundary between idea and object has started to fail. At WHAT!, the team must figure out what they have unleashed before it completely rearranges the world—17 Chapters plus epilogue; circa 32,500 words
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction54 words1 min readOutline
The Crumb Constant
At WHAT!, even biscuit theft comes with standards. No one steals Rich Tea on purpose, after all, they’re the beige wallpaper of biscuits. So when the Chocolate Hobnobs vanish without crumbs, wrappers, or witnesses, Professor Vic Titious knows something is badly wrong. What starts as a missing snack soon points to a far stranger possibility: reality itself may have taken a bite—16 Chapters plus epilogue; circa 28,000 words.
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction1,529 words8 min readDraft