text: Zak Zyz - This is a Dream
  June 11, 2018 by Zak Zyz
  Hi, I'm Zak Zyz, a writer based in New York City. My books are available to download for free below! What would you like to read?
  SURVIVAL MODE - Fast-paced hard SF about a marooned spaceman
  Xan & Ink - Dark, creepy fantasy set in an insect jungle
  The Right To Bear Arms - The cold reflections of a broken soldier
  The Master Arcanist - The serene and sublime ruminations of an ancient archmage
  The Bishop's Daughter - The story of a girl forbidden to talk
  Hawks at the Diner - A tense lunch showdown between two presidents
  If you enjoy my writing and would like to help get new stories edited, please consider becoming a patron! All pledges go to funding editing of new books. Thanks!
  June 11, 2018 /Zak Zyz
  The Master Arcanist
  An evil empire has conquered the North! Villages are burned, innocents are enslaved and darkness is spreading across the land.
  Not Charlot the Archmage! Secluded in his Crimson Citadel, the cantankerous old Arcanist has spurned the world for a hermit's life of tinkering with magical artifacts and reading dusty old tomes. Yet the world has not forgotten him. When a brazen young thief comes begging to learn magic, Charlot cannot resist the call to sally forth for one final adventure!
  The Master Arcanist is my new book for 2018! It's got a very relaxed, almost leisurely pace. If you've always wanted to see the world through the failing eyes of a cranky old wizard, this may be the journey for you. It's chock full of magical artifacts, wild beasts, and foggy recollections.
  Mr President! You are going to Jail!
  A lunch meeting becomes a vicious showdown when the President-Elect threatens to jail her predecessor. But President Rupert Cohen has a secret that will change everything! Sate your hunger for intrigue with this ambitious tale of power, politics, and pastrami.
  Hawks at the Diner is near-future political science fiction that packs a big story into just 40 pages! Coming soon on Amazon \ Goodreads.
  The Bishop's Daughter is a fairytale about the daughter of a renegade bishop who is forbidden to ever speak. The story was based on a random draw of three tarot cards!
  A cold and desolate New York story of a double-amputee veteran whose government-issued high tech prosthetic arms are malfunctioning. With winter approaching and homelessness looming, his only hope is an independent clinic in Manhattan. But can he pay their price?
  The right to bear arms is a short story which will be appearing in the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers podcast, The Kaleidocast. It's available as an audiobook! .
  Xan & INK
  This was the book where I really started getting into typesetting and layout. It's a pretty dark and sinister fantasy, not at all what a lot of readers expect.
  Fleeing justice in a one-man ship bound for uncharted space, fugitive K crash-lands on a bizarre and deadly alien world. With his ship wrecked and no hope of rescue, K must use every ounce of his ingenuity to engineer a way to survive on DEATH MOON YOWL.
  SURVIVAL MODE is my first published novella. It's a high-speed, high-stakes struggle to survive touching on themes of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and isolation. At the time of this writing it's sitting on a cool 4.55/5 on Goodreads!