Mark Gagnon
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My life has been spent traveling here and abroad. Now it's time to write.
I have three published books: Mitigating Circumstances, Short Stories for Open Minds, and Short Stories from an Untethered Mind. Unmitigated Greed is do out soon.
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Duty Above All Else
Time affects both humans and dragons in much the same way. It drags us along entangled in its web until we can travel no longer. No matter how large or small, weak or strong, there is no defense against time. We simply must follow its lead. Alexander was no exception.
By Mark Gagnon9 months ago in Fiction
Ragged School
The sign shows it’s proper name, Orphanage, but in Victorian England everyone calls them Ragged Schools. They’re called that because we, the poor, unkempt children, the industrial revolutions detritus are sent here to live and learn skills that will be used in the factories. The only presents we receive come on Boxing Day when the rich bring us their leftovers and a piece of coal to burn for warmth.
By Mark Gagnon9 months ago in Fiction
Duty Above All Else. Top Story - April 2025.
As dawn broke in the eastern sky, the Army of the Soulless crested the hills surrounding the village of Tranquility. When they appeared, even the area’s most dominant predator, dire wolves, moved deeper into the surrounding forest. The Army of the Soulless had only one goal—defeat and destroy every living creature in their path. The Jikininki soldiers were driven ever forward by their rulers known as Beast Masters.
By Mark Gagnon9 months ago in Fiction
Unmitigated Greed
Chapter 26 Sasha was used to being by herself, but this was the first time she was looking forward to someone coming home at the end of the day. It gave her the same giddy feeling she would get as a little girl waiting for her father to return from work so she could show him a new picture she had drawn. Crayon artwork may not impress Mike, but coming home to a completely organized house and a home cooked meal would.
By Mark Gagnon10 months ago in Chapters
View From the Other Side
“Carl, what do you mean we must leave now? What are you looking at, I need to see.” Jaylene rushed to the window Carl was fixated on and tried her best to look around his unyielding body, but try as she might, her husband remained as rigid as a pillar of granite. She eventually gave up and moved to the front door where she could peer through the sidelight into the front yard. Jaylene saw nothing on the grass or in the sky that should justify the amount of anxiety her husband was showing.
By Mark Gagnon11 months ago in Fiction
Transition
On the day I was born my parents named me William, but no one ever calls me that. When I was a toddler, it was Little Billy. As I grew older everyone, except my mother and grandmother, dropped little and I was just Billy. It was during high school that Billy was shortened to Bill and that’s where it’s stayed. William is strictly used for document signing.
By Mark Gagnon11 months ago in Families
That Pesky Bus Driver
Mike Gulf didn’t have much time to make his new condo feel like home. Bill, his old army buddy and new boss, was familiar with Mike’s many talents as a detective from the days they had worked together as Army CID investigators. Back then Mike was his boss. Mike’s new living quarters were in such disarray because Bill had assigned him to an undercover job as soon as he got back from London.
By Mark Gagnon11 months ago in Chapters
If You Could See What I See
Jonathan fell into his bedroom chair feeling awestruck and nauseous by what the orb had revealed to him. Both conditions a direct result of his virtual travel through time and space. His first reaction was to run to the bridge and tell the captain what he saw, but fortunately, the queasiness gave him time to rethink that move. More thought about what the best course of action should be was needed.
By Mark Gagnon11 months ago in Fiction
A Different Perspective
Johnathan viewed space differently than everyone else living on the starship Phoebus because he was missing one eye. The unfortunate accident, which destroyed his left eye when he was six, happened too far from Earth for him to be sent back home for a bionic replacement. Until the ship reached Terminus, a journey of twenty-seven years, Johnathan’s only option was a patch.
By Mark Gagnon12 months ago in Fiction
