Tag: Grief and Loss
This tag gathers the work centered on grief and loss — stories where mourning is the engine, not a passing note. It brings together fiction and personal pieces that sit with absence and what it does to the people left behind, including work like “Quantum Widow” and the memoir chapters drawn from the author’s own loss. The treatment is unflinching rather than sentimental. The collection grows as further work is added.
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Cindy The Rocking Horse Lady
A grief-stricken man at a Renaissance faire meets a woman on a giant wooden rocking horse and finds an unexpected path back to living. This is the story of how one person's warmth and humor can quietly change everything. -
Eurydice: The Confession of Tom Ayrton
In The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne marooned Tom Ayrton on a barren rock for twelve years, rescued him, reformed him, and killed him a hero — all in roughly thirty pages, and never once went inside him. Eurydice is the account Verne never wrote: Ayrton's full confession, in his own voice, recorded by the journalist Gideon Spilett on conditions neither man will commit to paper. What emerges is not the tidy redemption of the published record but the slower truth of who Ayrton was before the rock, what he actually did to the ship called the Britannia, and what twelve years of isolation built in him that no rescue could undo. The third novel in the Victorian Era Series, after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. -
The Time Machine
A Victorian scientist builds a time machine because his wife is dying of smallpox and he believes the future holds a cure. He finds it. Then he keeps going, because he cannot bring himself to face the moment he has to return to. -
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne's Mysterious Island gave the world Neb — a Black man from Cameroon, present on every page and absent from every sentence that mattered. This reimagining corrects that absence. -
The Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Four women. One disastrous fitting room. A found family tested by love, illness, and grief. Women's fiction that earns its laughs and its sorrow in equal measure. -
Ghost Healer
Cal Rourke doesn't think of himself as a ghost hunter. He thinks of himself as someone who corrects errors. A literary novel set in the American South about grief, memory, and the stories people tell themselves to stay in place. -
Buttercup
Buttercup survived a sack, a drowning, and the humane society. Then she spotted her human and made him hers. A sardonic cat's-eye view of the ridiculous household she now runs. -
Superhero Writer’s Handbook
Psychology-first superhero writing. Power costs, 19 chapters, 10 case studies, 228+ AI prompts. Watchmen to The Boys. From a 113-book author. -
Steampunk Writer’s Handbook
Psychology-first steampunk writing. Victorian technology costs, 19 chapters, 9 case studies, 216+ AI prompts. From a 113-book author who grew up on Jules Verne. -
I Asked an AI the Trolley Problem. It Answered Too Fast.
I panic looks exactly like 1474. History, neuroscience, legal battles, and hard data reveal what's actually at risk — and what no algorithm can touch.