I started writing speculative fiction in 1994. I stumbled upon it as a means to bring new life into my fiction. Prior to 1994, all of my short stories were realistic accounts of my life. After four years of autobiographical fiction, I became bored and eager to explore new methods of writing.

The first speculative story I wrote "Of Wings, Nectar & Ancestors" started off as a realistic rendering of an experience I had in the Dominican Republic. When I had completed it, I thought it was a good story, but it didn't excite me. I decided to focus on one compelling aspect of the story - a moth - and build around it. From there, the speculative elements took off. Eventually, I wrote a trilogy dealing with the same characters. The alien main characters became vehicles for me to explore my identity as a traveler. My foreignness, like their alienness, caused me to view and experience things from a distance.

Alien perspectives are perfect ways to examine and/or comment on human life. Of Wings, Nectar & Ancestors is the most experimental. It features a created language that attempts to recreate the limitations I felt as an intelligent being trying to communicate in Spanish. MalKai's Last Seduction explores the language - and bewildering swiftness - of seduction. The final tale, At Life's Limits, is the unraveling of life as the main character knows it.

To read the trilogy, use the pull-down bar in the top right-hand corner. Enjoy.