Experimental Radio

Hiss of radio fuzz as channels are scanned in a search for intelligence. . . . . . Nothing. The late night searcher wonders if there really is anyone out there. Then the dial hits on a lone renegade signal and a sound like clattering crystal chains and sped down fireworks. This is the reputed […]

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The Borderlands of Forever

The illustrated novel by Jeff B Willey is now available! A neo-mythic exploration of time and consciousness, belief and reality, and what it means to be human – and inhuman. Strap in for a mind-expanding journey. . . Find it in local bookshops near you. In Ottawa it’s at The Spaniel’s Tale Bookstore, Octopus Books, […]

New Illustrated Novel Arriving Soon…

Weaving from the near future to the 32nd century, this monumental story explores what happens when humanity confronts forces beyond understanding, pulling it towards different eternities. A festering planet-wide machine intelligence known as machinu exerts ever increasing influence, while reactionary elements of human society seek to repress cyborgs and other machinekind. Those behind the walls […]

Then It All Goes Poof

Come here, I want to show you something she says. You nod and follow. It’s strange, as the back parking lot behind Radwin-Sheefler is not a place you’d expect this person, your supervisor, to bring you. Rounding a corner you’re astonished to see everyone you’ve ever known gathered there. Hundreds and hundreds of people standing in silence. You […]

The Dunes South of Town

Hoar frost paints the fields, dappling a hazy whiteness over winter’s brown expanse. Waves of snow ripple to the horizon, if not stopped dead by broken hills. Some creature crawling over the horizon. . . In time it resolves into a figure coming towards me in long robes. I could change direction, but the gravitation […]

Enter the Huckster

In the year of our misfortune, the century hard to place, a peach-headed man descended on Rust Hill, pretending to have hitch-hiked there. Tall-hatted, in gilded peacoat and with an unnatural paste slathered on his face to hide infirmity, he was an old time huckster in the classic american mold, looking to sell the people […]

The Dream

I’ve been thinking about it for years, planning, saving, preparing – now it has arrived. 6 months of personal leave from work to devote to other things, travel and creative pursuits. No more alarms, no more commutes – for a while. Just writing, artwork, bike riding, hiking, gardening, reading… The good stuff. Like my DJ […]

Non-Recreational Camping

I have a story in The Satirist called ‘The Occupational Hazards of Occupying’ – an exposé of the rise and fall of Fred Zamtoit, leader within the Occupy movement: http://www.thesatirist.com/stories/The_Occupational_Hazards_of_Occupying.html This is a satire based on observations of Tent City in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Life at Tent City acquired a rhythm and direction. A man known […]

Unbottled

Had I convinced Imagine that I was on her side, that she could trust me with her story? I waited for days and then weeks without hearing from her. I pursued other lines of investigation, gathering information on the early development of the Calculix. It began with research on entopic light, which is related to […]

Imagine Summer

Her name was Imagine Summer. She was one of LeVram’s graduate students during the early work on the Calculix. She stands out in memory not least because of her nearly purple eyes that I’d gaze at as I passed her in the hallway. I liked to pretend she was pretending not to notice me. A […]