Kent Wayne

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  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Black Friday:  Wrong day to shop.  My face is scrunched in fury as I churn the ground with my feet, driving my shopping cart forward.  I’m racing a pack of soccer moms, and they’re snarling furiously, their botox-ed faces crackling with hate.  One shoulders me—OOF—and I crumple sideways.  I scrabble to my feet and I’m…

  • Musings

    By default, we become better at what we choose to practice:  It could be procrastination, it could be diligence, it could be want, or… It could be fulfillment.

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    DOGS!  WHY HAVE YOU TURNED AGAINST ME???  I’m being chased through the park by a pack of red-eyed canines.  They’re doing that thing where their lips peel ALL the way back, showing their teeth in full relief.  Suddenly I rush past a group of cats and chihuahas (Ha!  I KNEW they worked together!) that are….chortling?…

  • Musings

    Sometimes I’m motivated by possible greatness, sometimes by fear of mediocrity, but my most productive moments are powered by a focus so pure that it crosses into ecstatic delight.

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    I’m sitting down for a Thanksgiving—got all those delicious, colon-bursting accoutrements in front of me—when suddenly, my tween niece begins playing some Bieber on her iPhone.  The turkey begins twitching, ripples with scales, and sprouts an ugly, bloody baby head from between its wings.  Baby-head bares its fangs and screams, “WITNESS THE RISE OF KAEL…

  • Musings

    Identity is incredibly addictive and understandably so; the reward/punishment loops reinforced to us—as well as the expression of our genes—make us extremely invested in who we think we are.  But when we loosen our identities, when we make ourselves malleable and dream of becoming greater things, that’s when we actively unchain our minds.   It…

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    I get in the pool to swim laps.  A ring of kids surrounds me.  WTF?  They’re chuckling, high-fiving, when suddenly, the water around them turns vitamin-orange.  The dark miasma creeps towards me, touches my skin, and suddenly my flesh is withering (what kind of processed, Soylent Green shit are kids eating nowadays, anyway?)  I climb…

  • Thank You Recent Echo Readers!!!

    Ker-BLAMMO!  Whoever that was reading Echo Volume 2 on Kindle Unlimited yesterday….Thank You So Much!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2 on Kindle.

  • 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, and Keith for posting AMAZING reviews on Amazon!!!…

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    I’m at my boss’s bbq, and everyone from work is there.  They fix me with their corporation-deadened eyes, whispering venomously under their breath about how they hope my writing fails so I can join them in the ashes of mediocrity.  I’m quietly making my way out, when suddenly they rip off their faces, revealing chittering insect-heads.  They…