Historical Fiction
The Ledger of the Low
Dornhaven keeps its accounts. Elsa Brandt is an archivist. When she finds a deed referencing a contract that shouldn't exist, she does what archivists do: she keeps digging. By morning, she doesn't…
For Readers
Published fiction by Nick Burchett for readers who want history, mystery, frontier pressure, and the strange edges of human experience.
Historical Fiction
Time’s Forgotten Corners
Short stories based on time, history, and the unexplained. History remembers the battles, kings, disasters, and dates. But what about the people standing just outside the record? Time’s Forgotten Corners is a…
Speculative Fiction
The Last Test Pilot: Daedalus
THE MYTH WAS A COVER STORY. In 2434, test pilot Kael Maren is flung backward through time when an experimental warp drive catastrophically fails, crash-landing on a remote Aegean island in the…
Roanoke Historical / Alternate Novella
True Enough to Bury the Dead
In August of 1590, John White came home to a colony that no longer existed. He had left three years earlier to fetch supplies and been trapped in England by the war…
Historical Fiction
The Madness of Trees and Stars
A mythic novella following Suibhne across fourteen centuries of exile, from early medieval Ireland to Appalachia, World War One, Manhattan, the Dust Bowl, a VA psychiatric ward, and a present-day city park…
Historical Fiction
The Divided Homestead
An unflinching historical novella about ordinary people caught in the machinery of border violence, where there are no heroes, only survivors.
Speculative Fiction
Dead Like Me: Resurrection
A fan fiction continuation of Bryan Fuller's cult television series Dead Like Me and its follow-up film Life After Death, told in George's sardonic voice.
Speculative Fiction
The Gospel of Errors
A genre-bending fusion of historical fantasy and near-future science fiction: an intellectual thriller about faith and systems, consent and control, and the stubborn work of repairing what we build.
Speculative Fiction
The Godless Machine
A razor-tight science thriller about belief, free will, and who we become when no one is coming to save us.