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The Void Behind

The fleet has been traveling from star to star for many generations, fulfilling the sacred mission of Aspen Greaves and the rest of the First Crew — to seed humanity throughout the universe. Taya is born into the fleet at an important time, as they approach the asteroid belt of the star Dragonseye, where they intend to set up a new human colony. After generations in deep space, it will be Taya’s generation who have to do this important task, fulfilling the purpose of the fleet once more before they head back off into space in search of another viable star.

But Taya has more to worry about than colony building. She’s been watching, and she’s found out something that nobody else seems to have noticed — the fleet is in trouble. Something is chasing them throughout the galaxy, devouring the colonies they leave in their wake in its relentless pursuit of the fleet. And it’s catching up.

Taya needs to figure out what this ancient danger is and how to defeat it, and figure it out fast, because more than just one colony at Dragonseye is at stake. If she can’t stop it, this cosmic threat could devour not only every human colony from the Earth outward, but the fleet itself, erasing all known life from the universe. But what chance does humanity have when pitted against the universe itself?

And amongst all of this, the very history of the fleet itself could be wrong. For Aspen and the First Crew might not have been the people that Taya was taught they were after all…

The Void Behind updates every Sunday and Wednesday, and you can read it here.

Short Stories

A collection of random short stories that I’ve written can be found here.

Previous stories

Previous stories are available for sale on my ko-fi page, or you can get them at:

Books in the Treegrave Universe
– TTOU 1: The Javelin Program (Online draft)
– TTOU 2: The Antarctica Conspiracy (Online draft)
– Child of a Wandering Star (Online draft)

Curse Words: Spellcasting for Fun and Prophet
– 1: The Cursed Heart
– 2: The Labyrinth of Dreams
– 3: The Heiress of Duniyasar
– 4: From the Top of the World
– 5: Bonus Stories

Charlie MacNamara, Galactic Ace
Charlie MacNamara will not come out as a book, but digital copies are available in the Documents section of our discord. (Online draft.)

Short stories
– COPY <|> PASTE and other stories

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