ONC 2025 Ideas
A scrapbook of sorts, where potential Novellas are pitched to my readers.…
Love Without Stars
Daring to love in the dark of life.~a lyrical poetry collection about persevering love~written by A S H-published in reverse…
Sunspots on the Heart
In the twenty-fifth century, the only thing more dangerous than space travel is the madness that threatens everyone on the journey. Clones were once a solution to issues of labor and now they serve space travelers as companions. These dedicated sexual servants were created to serve humans in their never-ending pursuit of colonizing the stars.Dr. Yaro Volkov is a professor of Xenological Studies on Titan. She's pulled away from her class by a dog of the military, her brother, Nester. Once onboard a military ship, she joins a team of scientists at the top of their fields. They've all been gathered to respond to a distress signal:Aliens; hostile.Yaro and the researchers have dedicated their lives to pondering the possibility of aliens. It is up to them to create a hypothetical framework of the aliens' capabilities. Yaro isn't liked by the other researches and she despises her brother. To help her cope, she's been given a clone companion, a sweet scientist with a perfect body, Darla. Yaro finds the practice of companions disgusting, but she is in real danger of losing her mind.Yaro must struggle to keep her sanity and her principles as she calculates the fate of humanity.…
A White Rabbit in Summer
At age twelve, Holly and her friends saved the world from the Wikella, the Queen of All Evil. Yet for sixteen-year-old Holly, it's a hollow victory. Life as an ordinary teenager is a life of pained disappointment and isolating secrecy.Family? Her parents barely remember her.Friends? Only Lily, but who knows how long that'll last.Love life? Unrequited love for Jad, a kind writer who should be smart enough to not mess around with a slut like Fifi.Ordinarily, she'd have no choice but to suffer in silence, but Holly saved the world didn't she? She deserves her happily ever after.Her plot to change her life around? Go to a world where Holly killed herself and take the dead girl's place.####This story is complete.Content Warnings (not limited to...)==============================-suicide-mental health-abuse-sex-unhealthy love-death…
Original Poems 2024
Sometimes my trauma works its way into my work. Sometimes I'm writing a joke. I'll try to signal when I think a piece might be particularly difficult, but I'm not a great judge of that. My work within will be unfocused.Critiques are welcome.…
Haiku
Haiku with some small discussion about process and theory. Critics welcome. Please be prepared for a strong emotional response.…
Lovelife of a Deathdealer
A novel about a gay man who works to get humans the right to be a vampire, the battle with his conscience, and the stiff contract lawyer he's falling for.…
In Appreciation 2024
Highlighting some of the talent I've found in 2024. I can't get to everyone and sadly I can't get even highlight everyone I want to.…
Collected Original Poetry
Just a spot for my poetry going into 2023. Criticism welcome.As a novelist, I look at short stories and poems as exercises. Poetry in particular helps me with word choice, coherence, and ironically writing speed. I've always struggled with an appreciation for poetry in particular as the discourse around it can be too ambivalent or too exclusive. As with all of my work, my skills come from self exploration and discussions with writers I've met in my life.I'll try to keep the poems clean, but please assume that you may need to do some arduous self reflection. I hope you get something out of this.A S H…
Life After Dinosaurs
Ian was a nice kid. He liked dinosaurs. He had friends. He could play sports. Then puberty hit and everyone cared about posting up pictures of their chests.He's sixteen and he still hasn't caught up to everyone else. He isn't girl crazy. He doesn't try to be cool, but somehow he got talked into going to a celebrity sweet sixteen. Now it's too late to go back. Now he needs to act like a "bad boy" to stand a chance of getting inside. Once he's in there, then what? He does drugs and loses his virginity? This wasn't the life Ian wanted for himself. But then...he's not sure what life he does want.---Written December 2013Re-edited 2022.Like most of my work, it goes to some dark places.Reader discretion advised.…