First of all, the most important announcement: I have a new short story out under story.one. It's called Die Tote Generation. You can find more info and a link to purchase it here.

This one's a little different (as always, I guess): The version you'll find from story.one through your local bookstore is actually a slightly cut down revision of what I consider the "real" story. This is something I had been considering for a while, although I hadn't intended to actually do it just yet. But over the last few days, I made the decision to pull the trigger on this idea, for a few reasons:
For one, this is the first of my short stories that I am unequivocally proud of. I know that might sound like some empty marketing jargon but it's true. I feel like I've finally found the right pace, the right procedure, and the right timeframe for a project like this, and I feel it's resulted in a story that, for the first time in my work, really started to hit upon something deeper in the same way that my favorite stories from other writers do.
Second, and relating to the first point, the submission process was quite uncomfortable for me this time around. If you're fortunate enough to not have had to submit a piece to story.one, let me tell you this: it's janky at the best of times. The web editor is cobbled together from tinder and hot glue, and you'll never know why one 3.500 character-long text gets rejected while another 3.500 character-long text passes just fine... Anyways, that last point meant I had to slice off quite a bit of good material at the eleventh hour, and because I'd grown to be really proud of this story, that really stung.
And lastly, like I said before, I'd been wanting to do this anyways. I had one more concept cooking that I think would be a really good fit for the format, but otherwise, it has grown to be a bit of an albatross around my neck. I do enjoy writing these short stories as a break from my larger-scale project, and I absolutely want to continue doing it in the future. But the story.one format can not be the be-all-end-all of these stories. I appreciate the opportunity to hold my own stories in my own hands, and their competitions are good exposure, but I don't think it will ever stop feeling like a second rail. I have this website, so why not use it for all it's worth?

Okay, rant over. Probably more noticeably, things look a bit different around here. Since you found your way here, then I guess I'm not as bad as designing web sites as I might think. There's been a big redesign! The focus overall has been on modularizing the site a bit, since it makes expansion easier on my end. The homepage is a bit cleaner: updates have been moved to their own dedicated pages, so the landing site will only have a slimmer list that links out to the full article. There's also now some little widgets on there where you can find info on whatever I'm doing right now: books I'm reading, music I'm listening to, the works. This is one of the great advantages of this design, since it'll be a lot easier to add and remove windows as I see fit.
One of the most exciting updates to me is the new comment box, courtesy of CBox. This means you're no longer dependent on any external site to comment on my work. If anything's still broken after the update, do feel free to drop me a line as well. I'm only one person with too much ambition, so I'm sure something has slipped through the cracks.