Promotional image for my stories in the anthology “Drabbles: First Contact.”

My first publications for 2025 are now available in the Starry Eyed Press anthology Drabbles: First Contact (Amazon US). Click the following for the global link.

For those of you who don’t know, a “drabble” is a complete story that is exactly 100 words long, no more, no less.

“First Contact” is a reference to humanity’s first encounter with an extraterrestrial species. These contacts can be friendly or terrifying or a lot of other things.

Twenty-six authors contributed a total of over thirty drabbles to this anthology. It is currently available for Kindle but will also be coming out soon in paperback.

Four of my stories made the cut:

Emily’s New Friend
A child on a colony world is playing with her new friend, but she’s not human.

H.G. Wells and the Martian
Where did Wells get his inspiration for the creatures in “War of the Worlds?”

Scrambles
Sometimes an alien’s idea of communication can be really horrifying.

Voyager
NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 are now in interstellar space. No one expected them to let us know we had company coming.

Click the links above to find, purchase, and read the book (a quick read at 175 pages), then leave an honest review on Amazon and goodreads.

BONUS!

You may recall that last year, my 16-part space opera serial Our Legacy, The Stars: A Tom Corbett Adventure was published by this same press on Kindle Vella. Vella is going away, but my story is not.

Based on the 1950s TV show Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the serial is soon to be published as a novel. That’s right. My first official novel. I didn’t expect it to be this one, but I’m glad it’s happening.

Screenshot of the announcement for my novel, “Our Legacy, The Stars: A Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Adventure.”

I’ll keep you posted on events as they occur.