I’m E.B. Howard, and since Jan. 2024 I’ve been posting serial and short fiction across a variety of genres, often involving family ties, second chances, and speculative elements. If you’re interested in more about this newsletter and my philosophy of writing, see my about page.
This post serves as a navigation hub for my published stories.
Ongoing Fiction Serials and Expanded Universes
Capepunk Drama and Adventure
In the timeline designated Terra-32, the world has been getting weirder and weirder for decades—and now, it’s getting weirder faster. Against a backdrop of cultural anxiety and beneath the feet of a technocracy that can’t keep up with them, humans stubbornly keep on being human. Sometimes while wearing masks and spandex.
See the main superverse page here, or browse the stories below.
+ Clear-Sighted: ~3,000 words. A new mother, already struggling to find her feet, must learn to live with new psychic powers as well.
+ The Sonic Vorpal Incident: ~6,500 words. A college student taken hostage by terrorists must reexamine her priorities in life—and stay alive.
+ Mirai, Mirai: novella-length serial, ~900 word posts, with romance. Terra-32 is under threat from the multiverse, and the heroes’ children from alternate, worse futures are here to help save it. Ongoing.
+ Radiance: short novel (~80,000 words), with romance. A young heroine faces choices between agency and passivity, celebrity and mundanity, and friends and enemies. Complete.
+ Science! Girl & Chained Lightning: novella (~25,300 words), mostly romance. A scientist and her bodyguard go to a wedding ‘as friends’ and chaos ensues, naturally. Complete.
Contemporary Dark Fantasy
+ Voicemail: ~1700 words, urban dark fantasy. Lacey’s brother has been missing for years, and her private eye recommended a medium. Bad idea.
+ Close Calls: ~2000 words, dark fantasy/gothic. Diana didn’t think she was looking for a good time. Jonas didn’t think he looked that dead.
Collaborative Storytelling Entries
+ Elizabeth: ~2000 words, horror. From “Weather Reports”: What would you give to make sure you never had to grow up?
+ Helpers’ Cake: ~500 words, dark fantasy. From “The Ynysfall Codex”: Memories of a fallen realm live on in rhymes—and recipes.
General Historical Fiction
+ The Bride-Price: novelette, ~2000 word posts. A 14th c. retelling of the ballad of Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale. Ongoing.
Historical Fiction About the Murray and Haber Families
+ The Two Sisters: ~1600 words, WWI drama. [“You think about it, Missy. You think I’m gonna let a li’l flesh wound stop me? I got plans.”]
+ Flash Fiction Round-Up: ~1100 words, various. [Isobel’s penciled-on eyebrows just managed to arch. “Are those sabres?” she said.]
+ Poets and Chess Players: long novel, WWII spy drama. Incomplete, no longer posting.
Standalone Short Fiction
+ The Dead Zone: ~2000 words, action/suspense. Man vs. fish in the Gulf of Mexico. “Scarier than Jaws”—my dad.
+ The Eye of Ra: ~2100 words, historical adventure. Young explorer Amalia Blake finds herself in a tomb that she’s only mostly sure has been abandoned.
+ Should You Choose to Accept It: ~2000 words, spy romance. Two ex-lovers meet in Paris on the same mission. By chance? Please…
+ Battery Low: ~600 words, post-apocalyptic tearjerker. What would you lose if the power went out and never came back on?
+ The Long Walk: ~800 words, ghost story. Moving to a new place comes with all kinds of surprises.