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Matthew Castleman is a writer and stage actor from New York City, currently residing in the event horizon of the American bizarro vortex, Washington, DC. Like everyone else, he started making up stories and speaking in weird character voices at a young age. Unlike most reasonable people, he stubbornly refused to do anything else as he grew up. He trained as an actor at Oberlin College while teaching himself to write with whatever free time he found. Since then, he's acted up and down the Eastern Seaboard with a speciality in Shakespeare. He's published fiction long and short, some under his own name and some under the name M.E. Castle. He blogs about science fiction, theater, the imagination, and whatever else comes to his weird brain at castlemantransmissions.net.
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Published Dec 17, 2020 · 332 words (2 minutes) · 74 views
Humor Science Fiction SciFi Action-Adventure Space Pirates ensemble cast
Excerpt from my adventure novella Privateers of Mars, a story of Solar System cold war, atomic swashbuckling, and companionship in the dark of space. For fans of The Mandalorian, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, and The Expanse!
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Published Mar 15, 2020 · 757 words (3 minutes) · 263 views
Science Fiction post-apocalypse nuclear gun control
Originally published in Daily Science Fiction in July of 2018.
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Published Jan 29, 2020 · 918 words (4 minutes) · 1 like · 275 views
Fantasy Humor Magical Realism Monsters
A little story about new companions and old ones, and the work it takes to fit them together.