One day at a time

Fire roared about her, and terror tore Flame from her deep sleep. With practiced focus, she quashed the terror and the flames roaring about her faded, then vanished. “That’s five nights in a row, my queen,” echoed a calming voice from the far side of the heavy bronze door. “Damn it, I know,” she barked at the closed door. “Bring breakfast and clothes. Cheap linens. My control’s not been this…

I am currently putting some of my work up narrated by a AI on YouTube. Take a look and hit follow if you would. https://www.youtube.com/@jamessteinhaus5359

“What are you doing in here?” the teacher asked as Kevin entered the classroom. Looking the room over, he told her. “You’re not real. This room and everything in it are just temporary quantum copies.” The teacher snapped out, “You need to leave.” Touching his wrist, that teacher and three other students he’d already ruled out vanished. Along with them went most of the clutter. The walls became…

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Would you commit cold blooded murder if you thought someone deserved it for power? Taking a deep breath to steady himself, Robert put the crosshairs right on the bastard’s head. Day after day, for a week, he’d practiced this shot at this range, but he’d never killed before, not even hunting. But Carter damn well deserved it, death, beyond a doubt. He’d made damn sure of that. As he let his…

Kara, also known as the fourth universe, enhances psychic powers to the point that they call it magic. Human’s and other races there also call imbuing things with psychic energy, enchanting, and doing things with that psychic energy to affect reality, spell casting. Every child begins learning both spell casting and enchanting as soon as they can talk, and mankind has been making gene…

In this dark and burial world Kerric is the most brutal. #free2read on Substack https://jamessteinhaus.substack.com/p/kerric-the-mercenary-episode-40-the

This first post of the New Year is mostly for the other writers, as I am offering a new service to them. Showing verses telling, using passive voice instead of active voice, and info dumping are things many writers struggle with. If these are your problem areas, I can help you with some of that, if you want, even though my own writing is far from perfect in this regard. You can send me just a…

What if we met people that had truly honor bound leaders. “Stop right there,” the big-headed green creature said from across his desk, holding up his boney fingered hand. Its eyes narrowed down, and he pushed the proposal back across his desk before going on. “I’m sorry, but I don’t even have the power to grant this exclusive contract request, even if I thought it a good idea, and I don’t. Only…

CAUTION: This is not copy editing and you will need to have that done by someone who specializes in that if you don’t want to do that yourself. What you get from me is me reading it over and listening to it read to me aloud via a program. Your document must be in a .docx format, and I will be using Word suggest to point out some of the grammar errors to you, but mainly I will show you and make…

This is not copy editing and you will need to have that done by someone who specializes in that. What you get is me reading it over and listening to it read to me aloud via a program. Your document must be in a .docx format, and I will be using Word suggest to point out some of the grammar errors, but mainly I will show you where you used things such as passive voice when you should have used a…

The first edition of A Fall of Ashes had a number of scenes cut from it and others watered down. This was a mistake I corrected in this second edition, as well as fixing a couple of weak points. But it does make the story even darker than that edition. The fantasy world that Ashes comes from is racist and sexist, where even good and evil have tones of both racism and sexism to them and what is…