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It all began with Alan Moore’s “The Anatomy Lesson”.

When I was far too young to be reading such things, I picked up a small, dirty, plastic-wrapped comic digest from my local library. The first and featured story was a piece by Alan Moore which started with the line: “It’s raining in Washington tonight.”

It tells the story of a mad doctor who is awaiting the resurrection of a character whose name I won’t reveal here.

Suffice it to say, I was both horrified and intrigued. My young mind had never encountered such a dark and twisted tale, whose ending at the time shocked me. I remember being transfixed by the power of Alan Moore’s imagery and the depth of his narrative. That story still haunts me to this day.

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THE FUTURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

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I'm proud to announce that my short story THE FUTURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT has been published in the scifi magazine Perseid Prophecies for their July 2025 issue!

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When a veteran cop is assigned to supervise the rollout of the first AI police officer, he finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control on day one.

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