MY WRITING
BECAUSE SOME STORIES JUST WANT TO BE WRITTEN
IT’S NOT SCHIZOPHRENIA WHEN YOU ARE A WRITER. …RIGHT?
dark fantasy & alternative history
RUDÝ BOHATÝR (THE RED BOGATYR)
My first novel that had been being baked for almost ten years: a short story which, from the very beginning, refused to be contained by a few pages in a magazine. Good things take their time, and I found out I’m not cut out for writing short texts.
This book is a showcase of my complex world crafted from pieces of real historical events, folklore, mythology and imagination of your witty word-witch.
Georgiy Zhukov is an ordinary farmer boy. Or… is he? A gruesome Great War made a man from him, and he had seen and experienced some odd things at the Eastern front. When he returns home, after his regiment had been disbanded due to political situation in his home Russian Empire, he gets seriously ill. It’s only after he visits a city doctor when he finds out he should be long dead.
He survived everything. So he decides no damn illness won’t get him. But as he digs deeper in his search for a cure, he realizes the world is not as it seems. And that he is ready to do everything to recover. Well, almost everything. Unlike some of his new-found friends…
COMING IN 2025
From the world of “rudý bohatýr”
Povinnost k vlasti (Citizen’s Duty)
2014: The first short story from my world of alternative history.
Agnes Dietrich seems to be an ideal specimen of an Aryan race. That’s why she is chosen for a secret breeding program – Lebensborn. SS-Sturmbannführer Johann Siegfried expects a superwarrior from her who would be born with the assistance of occult practices. However, he doesn’t know Agnes has a different plan.
Published in the SF&F magazine “Pevnost”.
AVAILABLE ALSO IN ENGLISH!
(not published – so if it caught your eye, you can recommend it to your local publisher)
Mou ctí je vĚrnost (Loyalty is my Honour)
2015: The sequel to “Citizen’s Duty”.
Published in the SF&F magazine “Pevnost”.
ONI (They)
1920s, Himalayas. Johann Siegfried, a young anthropologist and occultist, is a member of a eugenic expedition across Tibetan mountains. But something is at their tail. Something that their Sherpas fear.
Mountains are merciless and don’t forgive – as Johann soon finds out when even his magic can’t protect him.
Published in the anthology “VE STÍNU ŘÍŠE”.
AVAILABLE ALSO IN ENGLISH!
(not published – so if it caught your eye, you can recommend it to your local publisher)
DEVĚT ŽIVOTŮ (NINE LIVES)
What will you do when you lose your arm in the trenches of World War 1? And what will you do when you see your dead captain come to live, and a retinue of cats guarding your torn off arm?
What will you do when everything seems lost, the land is dying with an unknown plague and the apocalypse of your great German nation is nigh?
Yep. You’ll get a Flammenwerfer!
Published in the anthology “VE STÍNU APOKALYPSY”.
Since this was a request short story, I consider it a little bit of AU.
Standalone short stories
Polibek Múzy
2014: My first published short story. One-shot about inspiration and taming a muse.
Published in the SF&F magazine “Pevnost”.
K.R.E.V.
Vincent takes Klaudia to Brno because his friend asked him to investigate suspicious behaviour of his wife. And when Vincent and Klaudia gets to some place, you can bet weird things start to happen – in even weirder city where its famous, phallic astronomical clock’s going to be the least odd thing they’ll see.
Published in the anthology “O KROK PŘED PEKLEM” which is based on the book series “Kladivo na čaroděje”.