Short stories – The Salon at Elfland

My short story, Machine Dreams for Wired People along with many other delicious pulp offerings, are now available for preorder for Amazon Kindle, and Lulu Hardcover. A softcover version will also be made available. The magazine is scheduled for release on March 19th, 2025.

Here’s the blurb for Machine Dreams for Wired People, from Cirsova Magazine: A family infiltration team is hired to break into a cybernetic AI factory to rescue the itinerant daughter of a wealthy benefactor before her mind can be liquified!

Machine Dreams for Wired People is my first serious dip into Cyberpunk. I had a lot of fun writing this one, I think it manages to find a way to be both horrific and humous. Like most futuristic horror, it’s absurd, and its supposed to be.

If you like the story, please be sure to leave a review, even a short one can really help!

My short story, Extra Credit, is available for purchase on Amazon. Fantastic School Staff features many great authors and is edited by Christopher G. Nuttall and L. Jagi Lamplighter.

Here’s the pitch:

Only enchanted treasure could drag a pair of master thieves back to school. Hired on as teachers, Pricilla and Chase must once again navigate the halls of Washington Academy, dodging teachers and students alike in order to steal Vivienne’s Locket. It’ll take all their skills, plus some extra credit, to pull off this heist.

If you pick up a copy, please leave a review!

I’ve learned a lot while working on this project. I wrote Extra Credit back in March of 2023, I was sick as a dog while finishing it and I didn’t have a whole lot of hope for it’s publication. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised! I hope you enjoy it!

I can’t thank the team at Fantastic Schools enough, working with them has been a real treat.

Anvil: Iron Age Magazine is no longer funding, but can be purchased “in demand” on Indiegogo. My short story, Afflicted: Nourritures les Ver, will be included in this issue along with a number of comics and shorts by other independent authors like me.

I can only speak for myself, but I am extremely excited about this magazine and my small place in it. I believe Nourritures les Ver will fit comfortably on the shelves of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror fans alike. I hope the blurb below whets you appetite for more.

Afflicted: Nourritures les Ver by Jaime Faye Torkelson

Amélia Mitre is Afflicted. Cursed by a pact of her own making, she is made to follow the Weird Way of Scealfe, God of Death of Decay. Summoned to the industrializing city of Beauanne, the Cursed Doctor finds herself investigating a disturbing disease that defies the laws of nature and therefore, the laws of her dark patron. She must discover the origins of the plague and punish anyone foolish enough to pretend rivalry with the God of Death.

If you choose to support Anvil, let them know I sent you. Your support, no matter how small, helps keep the flame of independent IPs alive and I cannot thank you enough!

My thanks, first and foremost, to God, who likes stories more than I do.

Secondly, the team at Iron Age Media has been great to work with. I highly recommend you check out their website.

And, finally, to the readers, who deserve good stories I hope my small offering fits the bill.

Above: a handful of worms in coffee ground compost, which makes excellent worm food.

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