A selection of fiction that I hope you will find entertaining and thought provoking.

• The End

  This is a short story about death, and what comes after. As is most of my writing, this is somewhat dark.

  Humanity has always had a complex relationship with death and the dead, and the most burning question for many people is what happens after we die. As an atheist and as a person with a particular interest in philosophy, this is something that I’ve thought about quite a bit. Not in terms of where we go, but what do we leave behind — what’s our impact, our legacy. This was written as an exploration of these thoughts.

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• The Hibbing Test

  The idea for “The Hibbing Test” began in 2015 with a documentry on how humans perceive risk, how they would bet or cash out when playing with free money, and what that exposed about how they saw the world. This story sees a world that becomes dominated by that difference, with one group given power, and the other religated due to their view of the world - and how risk perception plays into it. While this story is built around political party lines, this is not a story about politics, but about the differences in perception and how it results in groups that are fundementally unable to understand one another.

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