Welcome to Green Comet

Are you interested in lucid dreaming or ball lightning? How about the feet of geckos or spiders? The aquatic ape? Cave art? Maybe you like clouds. You might have a fascination with out-of-body or near-death experiences, collective nouns or synesthesia. You can find all that and more here. Just use the handy little search bar.

There’s a lot of interesting stuff here, but mostly this website exists as a place for the Green Comet trilogy and my other novels to live.

These free novels, Creative Commons licensed Green Comet, and its sequels Parasite Puppeteers and The Francesians, tell an expansive story of love and adventure on an inhabited comet. To learn more about the trilogy, and for samples, visit the Welcome page. To download the books, visit the Books for Free page. The novels The Plainsrunner, The Prime, Sunward and the Vin Stone series are available through the Books for Sale page. To listen to the Okanagan Reader, visit the Audio page or the YouTube channel.

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YouTube – Shoe and Marriage – Part Two


Today’s reading is part two of Shoe and Marriage by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It’s about sixteen minutes long. A couple on their honeymoon stays in their great big bed at the same hotel where a peculiar beauty pageant is going on. They don’t know where they are or how they got there or how they met or when they got married. Miss Pennsylvania’s dress has 40,000 sequins hand-sewn onto it.

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Stories for Men – Part Fourteen

Today’s reading is part fourteen of Stories for Men by John Kessel, part of a collection of short stories called The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. It is about thirteen minutes long. Erno endures the disapprobation of his mother and others before he sets out to find Tyler. He’s followed and they are exposed. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page. There are over a hundred readings there now, so scroll down near the bottom of the page for this one.

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YouTube – Shoe and Marriage – Part One


Today’s reading is part one of Shoe and Marriage by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It’s about fourteen minutes long. He carries the tiny glass slipper in his pocket and he searches for the girl whose foot will fit it. He finds a beautiful girl covered in soot from cleaning a chimney, and he falls in love and marries her, but her feet are too big.

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