Maclay School's Journal of Creative WritingOn our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature. The unnamed narrator is frequently named an anti-hero and is described by the note on the back of the Dover edition as a "profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-an...

DARKLING LIGHT AND OTHER SHORT STORIES – 3rd EditionYou won’t learn anything by being comfortable.A misguided attempt at redemption by a former hitman.A vengeful anti-hero.A dead man’s second chance at love — in the future.A regretful prisoner.A sleepwalker convinced he’s a killer.From Amazon bestselling authors JJ Richards (crime fiction) and Miles Arden (sc...

Two realities.One catastrophic mistake.And a system that just started to wake up.He thought it was just cargo.He didn’t know it could destroy the universe.Jon Simmons is a broke interstellar trucker flying solo on a shady delivery job. His cargo? Sealed. His instructions? Don’t ask.But what’s inside isn’t just black-market tech—it’s the blueprint for a planet-killer.Worse still… he de...