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Part II of 'Trencher and Harrow' is imminent....

Barry's blazing brown eyes scanned the length of the alleyway, the smell of rotting garbage, offensive to most, barely registered in his awareness. The acrid note of demon pelt; however, started his nostrils flaring...


Artist- Lucas Felstead.

Welcome to A Lens Outside of Time — a gathering place for my science fiction shorts, magazine submissions, and competition stories. Here, ideas from beyond the present moment are collected, refined, and released; strange futures, alien worlds, and speculative visions brought into focus. Follow on Inkitt and explore what waits beyond the edge of now.

Hi readers,
I’m currently reworking The Silver Genesis in its first major edit, focusing less on the headline events and more on the behaviours, how the characters talk, trust, clash, and endure, and how the world holds them. Adjusting the lived-in details of the world. This is the careful work, the kind that gives a story its ecology. If you haven’t had a look yet, I’d be glad to have you along.

Would you be okay with an orange car?
How about one with a mind of its own, pulls to the right, surges when it’s angry, and plays Railroad Gin at the worst possible moments?
Maybe it even mows down demon-worshippers, splattering them across a hot, damp Brisbane kerb while you’re hunting the next cult leader.
If slightly possessed 70s Aussie muscle cars are your jam, dive into my new pulp supernatural sleaze-action story:
Trencher & Harrow.

COMING SOON: TRENCHER & HARROW

A sultry Brisbane summer, 1979. Between those steamy arvo storms, a foul presence is crawling up from the River City underground.


Meet Trencher & Harrow; an unlikely pair of lawmen tasked with the dubious honour of protecting Brisbane from a supernatural crime wave.
Barry Trencher, former police chaplain and exorcist for the Queensland Police, is reluctantly teamed up with Duncan Harrow, a sharp-dressed, Oxford-trained boxer and sceptic to the core.


Together, they cruise Brisbane’s greasy, storm-soaked streets hunting demons and bad blokes in pubs, alleys, and grindhouse theatres. Through the bush and rainforest they’ll search for answers... only to end up neck-deep in something truly unholy.


Speak no evil. Speak no evil. Speak no evil.

Neuro-Android Operations & Deployment Manual, Rev. 4.7 (Galactic Solutions Classified)

Model Designation: Sim-One

Series: N•A Mk.IX

Developed in conjunction with Project AMBER, the Mk.IX Neuro-Android platform represents the most advanced integration of organic cognition and artificial body systems to date.

Sim-One is not a machine mimicking life, she is cybernetic life, refined.
Blending accelerated neural patterning, augmented emotional recursion, and bio-adaptive motor frameworks, the Mk.IX model exhibits lifelike nuance, field adaptability, and tactical empathy response far beyond baseline protocols.

Facial muscle calibration: sub-millimetre.
Reflex delay: negligible.
Loyalty parameters: secured at core firmware.

The Mk.IX is capable of ship operation, conflict mediation, off-world diplomacy, and long-range tactical support. In the event of user endangerment, protective prioritisation may override mission parameters.

Read more in: The Silver Genesis

Hello I was curious if you were considering a part two or a sequel as it seems the end of story was open for that possibility.Or maybe a series with more adventures from the Silver Genesis? It would make for a good series im thinking.
This a good story well written & imaginative.I really like this and didn't put it down today until finished it.
Thanks for sharing
Good stuff !
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Do you like action, romance, and weird Martian tech?
What about thrilling space battles, rogue captains, and an android with a mysterious past?
The Silver Genesis is live on Inkitt!
If you’re into:
High-stakes sci-fi adventure...
Gritty action with a rogue’s charm

Slow-burn romance between crewmates...

Weird alien relics buried under red dust...

And a snarky, augmented cat who might just save the day...


Then this is the book for you.

Follow the crew. Uncover the secrets. Fall in love with the Genesis.