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 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.

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YouTube – Flying Lessons – Part Four


This reading is the conclusion of Flying Lessons by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It’s about fourteen minutes long. June wants the boy who wants to take flying lessons back, and she’s willing to do anything to make it happen. The mysterious woman checks out.

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Stories for Men – Part Two

Today’s reading is part two of Stories for Men by John Kessel, part of a collection of short stories called The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. It is about twelve minutes long. The story isn’t actually a short story. It’s more like a novella, so be prepared for many parts. Erno is beginning to feel dissatisfied with the situation. Even though he’s comfortable and even spoiled, he’s beginning to notice the casual disregard afforded men by women. And now he meets a man who has some radical ideas. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page.

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YouTube – Flying Lessons – Part Three


This reading is part three of Flying Lessons by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It’s about eighteen minutes long. The girl loses the boy who wants to take flying lessons, and has a dream about standing nearly naked on St Andrews golf course. The mysterious woman reserves her room for another week.

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