Brian Burt
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Brian Burt writes both short and novel-length speculative fiction. He has published more than twenty science fiction and fantasy stories in various magazines and anthologies. His short story "The Last Indian War" won the Writers of the Future Gold Award and was anthologized in Writers of the Future Volume VIII. His debut novel, "Aquarius Rising Book 1: In the Tears of God," won EPIC’s 2014 eBook Award for Science Fiction. "Aquarius Rising Book 2: Blood Tide" won the Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for Science Fiction in 2016. Brian works as a cybersecurity engineer and lives with his wife, three sons, a mongrel puppy, and an adopted stray cat in idyllic Southwest Michigan. The cat, in particular, remains unimpressed with his literary efforts unless they come with tuna.
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Soul or Eclipse
Published Apr 7, 2019 · 5,398 words (20 minutes) · 1 like · 83 views
Fantasy Horror dark fantasy aura spirit
The inner lights of the people of Munson were being eaten away by some primeval darkness. Only Lita Hoile could see it happening... but could she stop it?
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Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Published Jan 5, 2019 · 6,789 words (25 minutes) · 2 likes · 170 views
Raghib was determined to raise his family up the Ladder to Heaven... but he would have to fight his way through the Helldragons to get there.
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The Last Indian War
Published Dec 15, 2018 · 6,346 words (24 minutes) · 1 like · 169 views
Joseph Soaring-Hawk had seen it happen too many times: human colonists destroying an alien race in their haste to grab another planet. This time, he would find a way to stop it... no matter what the cost. (This story won the L.Ron Hubbard Gold Award and was originally published in Writers of the Future Volume VIII.)
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The Brilliant Blood of Souls
Published Nov 4, 2018 · 5,329 words (20 minutes) · 1 like · 168 views
Morpheus killed women in a way that the L.A. press found eerily romantic. Algernon Harris knew better... and only he could stop Morpheus from consuming the essence of the woman he loved.
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Chrysalis
Published Sep 16, 2018 · 5,555 words (21 minutes) · 2 likes · 233 views
The most courageous sacrifice a human being can make is to give his life for the lives of others... but the Synobians were not human. Would you give your death to save your species?
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Time Bomb
Published Aug 31, 2018 · 4,476 words (17 minutes) · 3 likes · 320 views
It's a terrible thing to lose the person you love most in the universe to a monster... but to see it happen timeline after timeline was more than Elias Rochon could bear. To save her, he would risk his life a thousand times and grapple with a madman on the brink of Never-Was.
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Phantom Pain
Published Aug 11, 2018 · 5,884 words (22 minutes) · 2 likes · 284 views
In New Orleans, the Devil buys on the layaway plan. If someone stole everything you loved, what price would you pay for revenge?
