CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Ducky  has just been uploaded for immediate release. It is one of my earliest pieces, and one of my very few experimental pieces. It plays with the idea of interconnectedness, from both the perspective of a story's connections with the real world and from the perspective of connections between characters and the broader elements of their world...and it is told from three perspectives What's it About? Survivors of a virus on the rampage: an analyst, his ex-, and his dead daughter in three-way communication. Can he catch up with an uncontrolled disease vector, and stop the spread in time? Where will it be available? Links to the platforms where this title is available can be found as the book goes live, at this Books2Read link:   https://books2read.com/u/mgdVlK  Please be patient - or search for the title directly on  your favorite platform.

This week’s short story takes us from the science fiction setting of one woman's war against aliens to a near-future post-apocalyptic tale of heritage and adventure. Welcome to Old Magic . After disaster and disease wipe out the world we know, powers carried by right of ancestry act as a sixth sense for trouble in a ruined city. Can she be the only one to have survived. Old Magic is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: https://www.amazon.com/Old-Magic-C-M-Simpson-ebook/dp/B00B34KSWW/ . You can also find Kristine Kathryn Rusch's latest free short story over on her blog: kriswrites.com . Why don't you go and check it out?

This week’s short story takes us from a far-flung future of human exploration and alien encounters to one of quiet apocalypse. Welcome to Ducky. Three characters, a dead duck, and a plague-devastated city. What more could you ask for? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ducky is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: books2read.com/u/mda0d4 . You can also find Kristine Kathryn Rusch's latest free short story over on her blog: kriswrites.com . Why don't you go and check it out?  

This week's flash fiction challenge over at Chuck Wendig's terribleminds blog involved randomly rolling two words and joining them together to become a title. We were allowed to add 'The' in front, if we wanted to. I rolled a '9' and a '1' and came out with 'apocalypse' and 'bride'. My first reaction was that I did not want to write a zombie story. I know it would have worked but... just 'no', okay? So, I ran the words together and the next thought that struck was that this would make a great name for a starship. And the story came from there. The Apocalypse Bride is 1,000 words long - excluding the the title. Enjoy :-) The Apocalypse Bride The Apocalypse Bride came down in a shower of star dust and meteor debris. She took the hit that would have set the world askew, and her fleet sisters did the rest. Her entire crew were snagged from orbit after sending her on her way. Most of the rescue ships even made it plane...