Ghostly Writer

How often do you want to see new posts?

Yes, yes - I know - as often as possible - but that's not an option. 😉

While I am 'ahead' of my current posts here, and there are several parts to come, I wanted to know particularly from you, my awesome patrons, how often you want to see posts arrive.

Would once a week be enough? More? Less? Do you even care?

I'm not going to blather on about my muse or whatever. I'm doing this for you, you're being generous to me. I just want a general 'feeling' of what you're looking f...

Audio: The first test (Darien pt 1)

Hey! Little Saturday project here. This is an AI-generated audio version of this post, the first part of the Darien story that's ongoing right now.

I'm fascinated by the possibilities of AI audio, especially as an indie author with a really limited budget to have professional voice actors read my stuff (although I have done it; my short Her Smile is available as an audiobook on ...

Casual browsing (Darien pt 4)

The woman was walking through the store, pausing every few steps to check an item here, lift up some clothing there.

Andrew couldn’t take his eyes off her.

It wasn’t that she was stunningly beautiful, although she was definitely attractive. It wasn’t that she was dressed in some provocative way; she was practically wearing ‘Mall Mom Casual’ from the fall collection of Macy’s. It was something else.

Maybe it was because she kept throwing little glances back at him...

Welcome!

Hey all and thanks for dropping by. I've started a Patreon as you can see. So you might be asking why I did it, what you're going to get (although hopefully that's obvious here) and why I'm doing it now. Here's the details.

Why a Patreon? Why now?

There's a bunch of different reasons but it boils down to a couple. One, obviously, it's another potential source of revenue for me. I wish I could say that book sales alone are enough to pay the rent and keep food on the table, but t...

An interesting customer (Darien pt 3)

[NOTE: This is part of a sequence of posts - start with this post!]

Andrew Matheson - ‘Andy’ to his friends, despite the fact he preferred to be called ‘Drew’ - was bored out of his mind. It had been a slow day. Scratch that, it had been a slow week. A slow month.

It was always slow, he thought to himself as he flicked a paperclip off the sales counter. The tiny metal projectile flew ac...

Always have a plan (Darien pt 2)

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The air felt a little stuffy in the rental car. It didn't help that Darien was wearing a latex-silicone blended mask over his face, but he didn't care. The closeness, the heat; it was intoxicating, like a lover's embrace.

He checked his appearance once more, using his phone like a mirror, but one that recorded his every action as this new woman - a woman who only had a surname so far; Jenkins. He'd been experimenting for a while now, tr...

Merry Christmas, Tom

Tom rubbed sleep from his eyes as he walked downstairs, the cool of their air-conditioned home starting to bring him back to life from a deep sleep. While outside the temperature was touching 90F, inside their tastefully furnished condo, it was a pleasant 70F, even today.

Christmas Day.

He smiled to himself as he rounded the corner of their staircase, wondering what exactly he'd be getting as his "big gift" this year. He'd been lucky before. Very lucky, in fact.

The previous...

The first test (Darien pt 1)

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Darien could barely believe his eyes. "Oh my god," he said in a stunned tone, as he looked at his brand new face in the nearby mirror.

"It's perfect," he told himself. "Just perfect."

The face, a latex-silicone mask that Darien had created himself, was of a woman who until this moment, did not exist. This was Darien's newest project; a completely invented person, a woman who would only come to life when Darien became her. A fresh start....