BUILDING A LIVING WORLD:ONE STORY AT THE TIME

WARRIORS OF THE LAST DAYS SHORT STORIES

A novel gives you a spine.

A short story gives you breath.

Starting now, the Warriors of the Last Days universe expands with a new rhythm: one short story every month. Not side content. Not extras. These are pieces of the same world: fragments that deepen it, contradict it, and sometimes quietly reshape what you thought you understood.

Where It Begins

The first wave is already live for newsletter subscribers.

These stories take place in places that feel both real and slightly misaligned:

• Flin Flon, Manitoba: a mining town named after a fictional character, already carrying the sense that reality there has always been unstable.
• Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake, Manitoba: one of the longest place names in the world, a location that resists memory even in its spelling.
• Dawson City: Second largest city in Yukon. Forever linked to the Gold rush of the Klondike. Now, after the Collapse, it is home to some of the craziest adventures in the Warriors of the Last Days universe, including the memorable The Toe.

From Montreal, come the first released stories:

• The Lullaby
• Renée from the Sump
• Heading West
• The Carver and the Stone

The two additional Manitoba stories are already part of this expanding structure, bringing the current total to six.

Each one exists between the novels, specifically between The Refusal, The Exodus, The Drift, and The Spark. They are not recaps. They are not previews. They are connective tissue: moments, perspectives, and consequences that the main books cannot fully hold.

What This Structure Does

This approach changes how the universe grows.

Instead of moving only forward, the world expands sideways:

• A secondary character becomes central, for a moment.
• A location becomes a force, not just a setting.
• An event hinted at in a novel is finally witnessed, but from the wrong angle.

The result is not a straight line. It is a mythology.

A Map That Doesn’t Behave

This is not a series confined to a few major cities.

The goal is deliberate:

• At least one story per province and territory
• A focus on unusual, overlooked, or unstable locations
• Integration of local myths, histories, and narrative textures

Some places already planned:

• Remote northern regions where geography erases certainty
• Infrastructure zones where human intention failed
• Communities shaped by isolation, extraction, or disappearance

And one location that breaks the expected boundary:

• Saint-Pierre & Miquelon: geographically near Newfoundland, politically part of France, and narratively exactly where it needs to be

Why Monthly Matters

A monthly release does something a traditional schedule cannot:

• It keeps the world active, not dormant between books
• It allows experimentation in tone, structure, and voice
• It creates accumulation: small pieces forming something larger over time

At 12 stories per year, the universe does not just grow. It layers.

What to Expect

• Stories that stand alone but gain weight when read together
• Recurring locations that change depending on who survives them
• A gradual shift from narrative to myth, where truth becomes unstable

Some stories will feel grounded. Others will feel like rumors that refuse to disappear.

All of them are part of the same world.

Access

Every story is released directly to newsletter subscribers.

This is where the full structure lives first, before anything is collected, revised, or expanded.

The Direction

Warriors of the Last Days is not being built as a single sequence of books.

It is being built as a territory.

The novels are landmarks.

The short stories are what fill the space between them.

And every month, that space grows.