Jaycee Woods

I have been playing with World Anvil to see if I want to use it as a tool to integrate and promote my now 347 drafted short stories into a shared story universe. The description of my story world:

The Selfish Earth is the setting for a collection of sometimes interrelated stories, which may occur in the present, past, or future.

Several series are developing:

* Chad Seeking a Wife: A successful 30-year-old man is looking for a wife after a past of promiscuous situationships. Through a series of blind dates set up by his friend Mary, he finds it difficult to meet a woman who is wife material as he grows into a man capable of being a husband.

*Hiro’s Haunting: A Japanese man, who was badgered by his abusive girlfriend, drowns himself in the local park’s coy pond. In death, he becomes a ghost who enters the dreams of troubled couples. While comforting the men, he haunts the women until they learn to become better partners.

* Nemesis & Claire: He is a freelance vigilante often employed by Control, a secret organization. She was a teenage murderer who he helped to escape from abuse in a mental asylum before she became his partner. She wants him to settle down & start a family together.

* Geronimo’s Spirits: Chappo is a retired military veteran on the warpath to avenge his brother’s overdose from fentanyl. Leading a band of Apache & Comanche, he wages a campaign against a Mexican cartel that becomes a 21st century Apache-Mexican War.

* Boudica and The Butcher: During a brutal future Second American Civil War, Unionists fight a confederacy of urban rebel city-states. Disillusioned with incompetent Union politicians, a Union commander known to the rebels as The Butcher launches an unsanctioned campaign to break the rebellion through the oldest weapons of mass destruction: siege, famine, disease, & fire. Boudica is a former injured rebel fighter who he saved from death then enslaved, as directed by law, as punishment for her crime of rebellion.