CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

An alien autumn. An unseen predator. Deadly burrowers and an oncoming winter. And bugs big enough to ride. Joaquin only wants to warn his daughter of a new danger. To keep her safe. To make her understand her mother isn’t coming back, while keeping her alive. But what if he’s wrong? What if Mariam really did survive? What if, when everything looks like it’s going wrong, it’s really going right? Autumnal Threat is Joaquin's story. It is a father's story...and the story of a husband who misses his wife, and wants to keep his daughter safe from a new threat on their frontier world. It's a story of hope, and not giving up, and of family, as well as an exploration of what an alien eco-system might look like. It was a lot of fun to write. You can find links to this newly released, stand-alone, science-fiction short story on this Books2Read page: https://books2read.com/u/mgyopK or read an earlier version in A Collection of Lost Ships and Colonies .  

Autumnal Threat, this month's first short story title is now available on pre-order. Written to explore the idea of family, love, loss, a different ecosystem, and the kinds of threats a new colony might face, this story follows a father in his efforts to keep his daughter alive, and to make a living on a frontier world. What's it About? Autumnal Threat is a science-fiction short story that incorporates : a n alien autumn, an unseen predator, deadly burrowers, an oncoming winter, and bugs big enough to ride. Joaquin only wants to warn his daughter of a new danger, to keep her safe, and to make her understand her mother isn’t coming back, all while keeping her alive. But what if he’s wrong?What if Mariam really did survive?What if, when everything looks like it’s going wrong, it’s really going right? You can find links to where it is available on this Books2Read page : h ttps://books2read.com/u/mgyopK , and subscribers to my ReamStories page at the Perimeter Surveillance lev...

My science fiction short story has just been released on Smashwords and Amazon-Kindle and will soon be available from DriveThruFiction, OmniLit, and Kobo. When planet-colonist, Joaquin, takes his daughter, Ry, into the autumn forest to show her the danger lurking amongst the trees, he does not expect to end the day fleeing for his life, nor does he think he can discover more about the spider-like orsovite, or what happened to his wife, one short year ago, but autumn is a time when the leaves fall, and secrets are uncovered.