Free Fiction Monday: Blood Trail

Detective Zack Wheldon solves cases. The tough cases no one else figures out. So, when the FBI comes seeking his help, he must decide which to choose: the serial killer he desperately wants to catch or the as-yet-unknown cases that will grow cold in his absence. The FBI’s new technology promises big things—more closed cases, […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/22/free-fiction-monday-blood-trail/

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Free Fiction Monday: After The Fall

Attacked by a dog at the age of three, Peter can’t stand dogs. Yet, after a fall while hiking alone in the Montana wilderness, he meets a creature that offers to save him…if he becomes a dog owner. “After The Fall” is free on this website for one week only. If you’d like your own […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/15/free-fiction-monday-after-the-fall/

#Fantasy #freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #dogs #fae

The print edition Oona the Unvanquishable, Issue 4, "Death Comes from the River" is available together with stickers!
Exclusively at Cosmic Comix, 529 S Camp Meade Rd, Linthicum Heights, MD.

Pick 'em up while they last! #SwordandSorcery published on the finest pulp paper & as always #FreeFiction

Imagined Endings

Perhaps you remember the “Dear Aliens” contest? Maybe you even submitted a story to be shared with our alien visitors? 

Mr Man and I have had a lot going on over the past few months so I did not get a story together, but I’m glad that many of you did. And now, the winners have been announced!

To Those Arriving Soon by MacEagon Voyce

“You’ll know by now that we humans fear the unknown, and that we fill that chasm with stories, imagining endings we have some agency over.”

See the full list for the top ten stories, and enjoy!

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Summer Lovin’

Annie Reed and Dave Hendrickson invited me to participate in their summertime romance anthology, Sunkissed Summer. I love writing for anthologies, and as my life is getting less hectic, I have more time to do so. (I had hoped to be in their previous volumes, but time and attention allow that to be possible.) Sunkissed Summer features […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/10/summer-lovin/

#freefiction #NewReleases #Romances #academia #Romance

Free Fiction Monday: Alien Ball

Frank loves basketball. His long career covering basketball puts him in high demand. His purist views on the game well-known. So, when the Ashtenga seek to form an Ashtenga/Human League for basketball, the Interglobal Sports Network wants Frank to give voice to the anti-alien point of view. But what Frank discovers might change his views…on […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/08/free-fiction-monday-alien-ball/

#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #ScienceFiction #aliens #basketball

"Oona the Unvanquishable," the 2-page zine in Scribe & Sigil APA, will finish 2026 with 10 issues and an annual (more on that later). The 10th issue, dated to December, will appear in S&S's 2027 volume. For 2027, I plan to switch to a bi-monthly schedule which should result in 5 issues and an annual (inshallah).
I'm considering also a newsletter which could also include a mailbag!

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#SwordandSorcery

The latest audio drama of Oona the Unvanquishable is out! Go to our Youtube to check out Issue 3. "Scourge of the Forsaken Sky"

https://youtu.be/wMJmmu6nXow?si=Ooq-fWbeyhcLQs56

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Lately, It’s All Time Travel, All The Time (pun intended)

My latest novelette, “The Test of Time,” just appeared in Lightspeed Magazine. Editor John Joseph Adams describe the story by saying it contains “all the SFnal crunchiness of time travel paradoxes inside a delicious academia setting. It’s like the Reese’s peanut butter cup of SF novelettes!” And, y’know? It is! I think you’ll enjoy it. You […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/06/lately-its-all-time-travel-all-the-time-pun-intended/

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