Welcome aboard my site, Tales from a Thousand Worlds. The purpose of this place is to share my appreciation for the shorter forms of writing, as well as to share some of my own.

By the shorter forms I mean flash fiction, short stories, novelettes and novellas – anything under around 40,000 words and not a novel. Indeed, many classic novels are now what would be classified as novellas. Short stories once had a large following – you just have to look at the popularity of the pulp magazines of the past to see that. While they are no longer as popular as they were, they have never gone away.

My own collection of short fiction, one that has grown over the years to number quite a few stories, is spread across a number of genres and sub-genres in the SF/F field, hence the name of the site. Heroic fantasy, sword and sorcery, cyberpunk, steampunk, urban fantasy, space opera, weird and the like, they do not quite encompass a thousand worlds but they are varied. I aim to slowly aid them here, and elsewhere.

While I won’t claim that they are literature, I hope that they are full of action, adventure and fun, a form of escapism like the pulps of yore.