Kent Wayne

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  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Corporate outing at the waterpark.  I’m relaxing in my inner tube, closing my eyes and enjoying the sunshine as I’m being bustled through one of the gentler rides, when suddenly I hear the rubbery squeak of another tube sidling up to my right.  I look up and see Janice from Accounts Receivable.  Another squeak to…

  • Echo: The Weekly News

    No more word count until the next book; volume 3 is done and being edited. Thanks to All Who Bought Echo!  And BIG THANKS to Melissa, Barbara, Ian, Lorna, [anonymous], Lisa, Meg, Matt, Bobby, F.T., Alice Smith, Leslie Coop, Richard, Shauna, Sydney, Pam, Jessica, Angela, Kiesa, Ross, Keith, and Alice for posting AMAZING reviews on…

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    The head of accounting is taking me on a tour through the facilities, explaining that the curriculum is overhauled; they’ve done completely away with tests.  “Really?” I ask, raising an eyebrow.  “So is there some kind of final task  or something before graduation?”  The head of accounting says nothing, only smiles.  He walks to a mannequin of Herbert…

  • Musings

    One of my ego’s most insidious tactics is to be accepting of others’ weaknesses and in turn, unthinkingly accept my own weakness (not an excuse for self-flagellation, btw).  But it has always been the case that I must forgive others (as much as is practically acceptable) while mercilessly driving myself to greater heights. In fact,…

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    I’m in an alcohol-serving coffee shop, enjoying a beer as I’m doing my final edit on Echo 3, when the bartender switches the TV from The View to a Demetrious Johnson fight.  I look up, pleased to see a true technician at work.  Suddenly, I hear a drunken voice bray, “HEY!  WE WERE WATCHING THAT!”  It’s a…

  • Musings

    I want to die admiring the effort I directed towards achieving my goals.   And because I could die today, I will direct effort towards achieving my goal TODAY.

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Social Justice Warriors have taken over the world, imprisoning anyone who raises objections to their condemnation of microaggressions and enforcement of trigger warnings.  I’ve been caught applauding at a movie (apparently clapping is a trauma trigger; the appropriate thing to do is snap your fingers) and for my crimes I have been chained to a radiator in a…

  • Thank You Recent Echo Readers!!!

    Ka-SLAM!!!  I wake up and see that two people yesterday read Echo Volume 1 in its entirety on Kindle Unlimited!  Whoever that was…Thank You So Much!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2 on Kindle

  • Musings

    Given what the evidence seems to be telling us—that we are brief dots in an incalculably vast canvas—the idea of “practicality” seems to fall away.  But to me this is not an excuse to wallow in wide-eyed wonder, because there are still bills to pay, still goals to accomplish.  To me this simply means that…

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    A clamor of voices rises from below:  “Help us Kent!  Help us!”  I’m jumping across a pit that’s dotted with wooden pegs, each one barely big enough to accommodate a foot.  Down below me, are the Fallen—the legions of office workers that have been dragged down by corporate culture and douchey mid-level managers.  Watching by the…