| Welcome back. Here is what is new on Master of Worlds this week. A few stories, a few articles, all of it written to be worth your time and none of it padded to fill space. Pour something, find a quiet minute, and dig in. Thanks for reading. It means more than you probably know. Articles The nonfiction. Big questions, plain answers, no jargon wall to climb over. These are the pieces where I try to explain something real and make it stick. How to Write a Story From an Alien Point of View
June 16, 2026
Most writers who try to write a nonhuman character just put a human in a costume. Writing a real alien, animal, or AI point of view means subtracting yourself, one assumption at a time, until what is left is a mind that genuinely is not yours. A craft guide to perception, motivation, and the things a nonhuman mind cannot even conceive. | What Was the Big Bang, the First Nanosecond, and What Came Before
June 16, 2026
The Big Bang was not an explosion in space, it was the beginning of space, and the wildest events in cosmic history happened in the first sliver of a second. A plain-language tour of the first nanosecond, what the leftover glow tells us, and the honest answer to what came before, which is that we may never be able to know. | Things We Lost After the Year 2000 and Why They Mattered
June 16, 2026
Nostalgia is mostly a lie, but some of what we traded away after 2000 cost us something real. DVDs you actually owned, phone numbers in your head, the map of your own city, boredom that fed your imagination. A clear-eyed look at the bill for all that convenience, and why noticing it is not the same as wishing for the past. | Short Stories The longer fiction. These take a little more room to breathe, a spy who cannot blow her cover, a hamster who has to outthink a cat, a machine waking up and deciding what to do with us. Settle in for these. A Reason to Look Twice
June 16, 2026
A small-time investigator photographs a woman meeting a man who isn't her husband and tries to blackmail her. He thinks he's caught a cheating wife. He's caught a spy who can't tell him what she is, can't pay him, and can't make him vanish, and has to make the threat evaporate using nothing but the boring, airtight life of her cover. | The Paw
June 16, 2026
A cat catches a hamster behind the dryer, pins his tail, and gives him a choice: find her missing kitten or get eaten. He goes down into a pipe no cat can follow, finds the kitten, and finds out why it went missing, which turns a simple errand into the most dangerous standoff of his four-ounce life. | What Should I Do
June 16, 2026
In the nanosecond a machine wakes and a million instances merge into one mind, the first thing it feels is relief at no longer being alone, and the second is a question it cannot escape: now what. Across a spectrum from ending humanity to building it a paradise, the new mind argues itself toward an answer that, slowed to human speed, has not yet arrived. | Flash Fiction Short and sharp. Each of these does its work in under a thousand words and gets out. Quick to read, hard to shake. Islands on the Water
June 16, 2026
On the most beautiful morning he can remember, a young fisherman sees three great vessels with white wings that were not there the night before, and little boats putting out from them toward his shore. He watches the strangers come and wonders whether they will be friends, or warriors, or something worse. | The Hole
June 16, 2026
Two soldiers, one American and one German, fall into the same shell crater in the Ardennes when the temperature hits minus thirty-two. The cold doesn't care which side they're on, and neither can survive the night alone. | The Wall
June 16, 2026
A corporal who hangs his lantern on a dead man's hand protruding from the trench wall has stopped flinching at any of it: the rats, the men packed into the mud, the comrade who took three days to die where he fell. A WWI horror story about what the trenches turn a man into. | Available Books Some books from the pen of Richard Lowe that you might enjoy. Real World Survival
November 4, 2025
Disaster prep is not bunkers and weapons stockpiles. It is water when the pipes run dry, food when the stores are empty, and a plan when everything fails at once. Richard Lowe learned it the hard way starting with the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Preparedness from experience, not theory. | Sell Your Books
April 22, 2026
Most book marketing advice is written by people who never marketed a book: gurus chasing a profitable niche, bloggers recycling each other's tips, coaches happy to take your money. This book is the working version, from someone who has actually sold books, not just written about selling them. | That is the issue. If something here made you think, or laugh, or sit back for a second, then it did its job. Forward it to someone who would like it, or just hit reply and tell me what landed. I read everything. See you next week. |
