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Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Josh Mavis. I am a writer of modern pulp stories, and I have a variety here for you to choose from. Weird Westerns, Spicy Fairytales, Hardboiled Mysteries, Northwesterns, Fantastic Adventure, and Cheap Novelettes.

I’ve created several different characters, each with stories here and soon to come. Let me introduce them to you. 

  • Dustin Powerman – In an alturnate 1950’s America, power and electricity and even horses will no longer work, and people must rely on their own power. Dustin Powerman rolls into town to hunt down the monsters keeping the people in the dark, while on a longer journey to find the source of the Great Stall and bring the power back.

  • Morton McKnight – Morton is a private eye in modern world of noir fog and darkness, he’s smooth talking and uses a lot of hardboiled slang and Yiddish words as he recounts his more interesting cases.

  • Spicy Fairytales – not a specific character, but a series of revisionist fairytales, where the women are a little older, a little wiser, a little more sexual, and a little more deadly.

  • Henry Olivander – in the trenches of World War I, this British soldier writes letters back to a loved one, which include a story based in a world he goes to in his mind to escape the horrors of war, the fantastic world called Avalay.

  • Oran Teal – Oran is an adventurer looking for magical treasures in the east in the earliest days of the twentieth century. If I were writing these stories a hundred years ago, these would be the stories sent to: Jungle Stories, Spicy Adventure and most importantly Oriental Stories/Magic Carpet Magazine.

  • Paddy Poutine – Paddy is a smuggler/survivalist in far north Canada in the east in the early twentieth century. If I were writing these stories a hundred years ago, these would be the stories sent to: North-West Romances, and other Northwestern venues. 

  • Other – there are other stories, series, and one-offs that don’t fit into any of the series listed above. and there will also be Crossovers  between two or more of the stories listed above.

Hope you enjoy what I have to offer.

Josh Mavis.