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Category: Young Adult

Stories for teenagers, often about coming of age, learning who you are, and what you stand for.

  • Chapter 3: An Evening at the Whitlock’s – Slugs
    Age Range, Alien First Contact, Fiction, Genre, Multi-part Novel, Reading Time, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Space Western, Young Adult

    Chapter 3: An Evening at the Whitlock’s – Slugs

    January 19, 2024

    Rystole’s friend Bert Morris had some ideas about the broken radio, but needs some time to put something…


  • Chapter 2: Broken in an Interesting Way – Slugs
    Age Range, Alien First Contact, Fiction, Genre, Multi-part Novel, Reading Time, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Space Western, Young Adult

    Chapter 2: Broken in an Interesting Way – Slugs

    January 12, 2024

    After the slugs invaded the Whitman cabin Rystole begins to investigate why the broken radio bothered the toxic…


  • Chapter 1: Intruders – Slugs of Dale Cannon
    Age Range, Alien First Contact, Fiction, Genre, Multi-part Novel, Reading Time, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Space Western, Young Adult

    Chapter 1: Intruders – Slugs of Dale Cannon

    January 5, 2024

    The wooden planks of the living room creaked under the weight of Rystole Whitlock’s work boots. Normally he’d…


  • 30 Minute Read, Age Range, Dystopian, Fiction, Genre, Reading Time, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Young Adult

    Aldren’s Abandoned Station

    December 1, 2023

    Feldman’s Station was quiet despite it being Elder’s Day. The once-crowded station had, like most of the Central…


  • 30 Minute Read, Age Range, Alien First Contact, Fiction, Genre, Reading Time, Science Fiction, Young Adult

    A Field Guide for Kremulons – A First Contact Short Story

    November 4, 2022

    I found it laying in the sand, a bright red, blue, and orange. If I returned it to…


  • 30 Minute Read, Age Range, Book Announcement, Fiction, Genre, Reading Time, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Young Adult

    Path of The Bearers and Other Stories – Available Now

    September 2, 2022

    My latest book Path of the Bearers and Other Stories is available now on Amazon as eBook or…


  • 30 Minute Read, Age Range, Alien First Contact, Fiction, Genre, Reading Time, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Space Western, Young Adult

    The Ent Colony – A Space Exploration Short Story

    July 1, 2022

    26th Serrill 16584 HE We land on Yunta tomorrow, and there was a big party on the ship…


  • 30 Minute Read, Age Range, Cyber Punk, Fiction, Genre, Reading Time, Science Fiction, Young Adult

    Making the Most of a Rat

    November 5, 2021

    This evening, Mack was fortunate enough to be chewing on a deep fried vermin, likely a rat, maybe…


  • 10 Minute Read, Age Range, Book Announcement, Genre, Non-Fiction, Reading Time, Time Travel Multiverse, Young Adult

    My Last Blog Post…

    October 26, 2018

    This article is the last blog post I’ll release as someone who isn’t an author. Come Wednesday I’ll…


  • Age Range, Fantasy, Fiction, Genre, Magical Realism, Multi-part Short Story, Reading Time, Young Adult

    Orbs of Purpose [Epilogue]

    October 19, 2018

    Author’s Note: This is a continuation of the story about Joseph looking for his orb of purpose. It’s…


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Nicholas Licalsi

Trying to trick my overactive imagination into paying the bills while I satiate my dog’s need to be pet.

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