Mike Marsbergen

Be honest: Did you think I was dead? Haven't been on Wattpad in ages, but I'm back to tell you about my debut book of short stories, ANOTHER LIFE AND OTHER MINDBENDING SCI-FI STORIES, which is now available on Amazon.
          
          Featuring a brand-new 5000-word prologue, ANOTHER LIFE contains newly revamped legacy stories of mine. Some are considerably expanded. These are the definitive versions.
          
          Have you ever wanted to live ANOTHER LIFE...?
          
          A VR addict receives an anonymous letter hooking her on the idea of true love. A starship commander, accused of killing his wife, takes a drug to absolve himself of his sins. An ex-con is forced to kill for sport to keep his captive daughter alive. An astronaut is infected by an alien pathogen that robs her of her identity. An alien race repels human colonization using their unique affinity for mushroom spores. A desert wanderer finds a sentient supercomputer with a plan to restart civilization. And a young man emerges from forty years of cryostasis, cured of a terminal disease, only to find his world has moved on just enough to leave him behind.
          
          MIKE MARSBERGEN has written over a hundred stories, nine of which are featured here in ANOTHER LIFE, his first collection of science-fiction stories. Sometimes tragic and romantic, other times violent and disturbing, each of these nine speculative stories will take readers on a mindbending journey to places they won't expect.
          
          The ebook is $5.99 CAD and the paperback is $19.99 CAD.
          
          https://www.amazon.ca/Another-Life-Mindbending-Sci-Fi-Stories/dp/1738303918

The new TK issue is out! HOLLOW EARTH. It's actually a sequel to the last one, FLAT EARTH, so why not read both? I've got an eighteen-part narrative entitled A DIFFERENT EARTH, and twelve of those parts can be found divided across both issues (with the final six parts in next month's issue).
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/341674143-tevun-krus-113-flat-earth-a-different-earth-part-1
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1370304014-tevun-krus-114-hollow-earth-a-different-earth-part

As the sun rises over the Wild Lands, some life-forms stir awake while others hunker down to sleep after a night of hunting and foraging. This is a world rich in flora and fauna. And yet it is not natural.
          
          Each of the animals roaming these forests and grasslands has been enhanced through technology. That leopard can change the pattern  of its spots. That giraffe has reinforced legs. That elephant has opposable thumbs and a trunk that blasts Nicki Minaj's latest tunes like an old boombox.
          
          This is their ecosystem.
          
          Tevun-Krus #112 - Animal SF is here, 'troopers! Ooorah!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/336340183-tevun-krus-112-animal-sf

You probably saw the announcement on May the 4th for the new TK issue. Well, we're back to link to some specific pieces I happened to hunker down and write.
          
          As usual, here's the issue itself:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/336340072-tevun-krus-111-space-opera-episode-iii-time-of-the
          
          Again, as usual, the Scenes from the Mothership/Closing Time wraparound continues the loose little ongoing story we've been working on. Spoiler alert: Hitler dies in this issue's Closing Time! Enjoy!
          
          Scenes from the Mothership - https://www.wattpad.com/1322504050-tevun-krus-111-space-opera-episode-iii-time-of-the
          
          Closing Time - https://www.wattpad.com/1334639065-tevun-krus-111-space-opera-episode-iii-time-of-the
          
          Plus, surprising even myself, I finished off the third (and hopefully final) entry in my very-long-ongoing WHY SPACE OPERA IS BETTER THAN A REAL OPERA trilogy. Reading them back to back is very interesting, given the gaps in time between writing them.
          
          Here's Episode III: WHY SPACE OPERA WILL ALWAYS BE BETTER THAN A REAL OPERA - https://www.wattpad.com/1334635245-tevun-krus-111-space-opera-episode-iii-time-of-the
          
          Alright, back to work. Write on!
          —Mike/Phoney Ballz

It is a time of great unrest in the M'Verse. Warring factions are spread throughout the galaxies. Planets crumble after a series of seemingly random mass invasions from universes abroad. The dark science threatens to poison the minds of all who dare to seek it out.
          
          But yet there is hope. Hope lies in the hands of a ragtag crew of explorers, and their trusty generation ship, the Ooorah Mothership.
          
          Hope lies with the Mothertrooper...
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/336340072-tevun-krus-111-space-opera-episode-iii-time-of-the
          
          TEVUN-KRUS #111 - SPACE OPERA EPISODE III: TIME OF THE MOTHERTROOPER
          
          May the 4th be with you, 'troopers! Always!

Get ready for Tevun-Krus #110 - PUNK WARS 3!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/336339644-tevun-krus-110-punk-wars-3
          
          As has been the case since the PiratePunk Christmas issue, I've got a little wraparound story (Scenes from the Mothership/Closing Time) brewed up. Read them both here:
          
          Scenes from the Mothership - https://www.wattpad.com/1322502434-tevun-krus-110-punk-wars-3-scenes-from-the
          
          Closing Time - https://www.wattpad.com/1322505517-tevun-krus-110-punk-wars-3-closing-time

The 109th issue of TEVUN-KRUS is here, 'troopers! This time it's FORGOTTEN CONTACT. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/331251992-tevun-krus-109-forgotten-contact
          
          As has been the case since the PiratePunk Christmas issue, I've got a little wraparound story (Scenes from the Mothership/Closing Time) brewed up. Read them both here:
          
          Scenes from the Mothership - https://www.wattpad.com/1303054327-tevun-krus-109-forgotten-contact-scenes-from-the
          
          Closing Time - https://www.wattpad.com/1313557797-tevun-krus-109-forgotten-contact-closing-time

I've finally made good on my promise to submit to @Wuckster 's 99 STORIES ABOUT CHICKENS anthology. It's an anthology where all 99* stories are about chickens.
          
          My submission is a Tugger short story called CLUCK CLUCK BANG, set when Tugger was 15 and blasting corn at the gun range. A rogue chicken is disturbing all the middle-aged men. Tugger is here to ensure that continues to happen, as nature intended.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1320266009-99-stories-about-chickens-an-anthology-cluck-cluck
          
          And the anthology itself can be found here:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/307575711-99-stories-about-chickens-an-anthology
          
          *There is still a lot of room for more stories. Please submit!

6 years ago we created an anthology dedicated to what we call the M'Verse. Since then, perhaps as a byproduct of our meddling here at the Ooorah Mothership, the multiverse has taken off in pop culture.
          
          On January 22nd, 2023, the Ooorah Mothership set the ultradrive into maximum overdrive and took off for the M'Verse once more. There are still five non-mandatory rules that weave together the very fabric of the M'Verse, tethering each tale to a tangible tenet: the Toad King, Ooorah's Specials, COVID, cats riding around on dogs' heads, and unicorns. You may see one or more of these concepts in each story, or you may see none at all. You do get 10 stellar and diverse stories, a wrap-around tale* (written by yours truly), an amazing article+, and more~!
          
          RETURN TO THE M'VERSE: An Ooorah Anthology
          
          *Scenes from the Mothership - @PhonerionBallznevsky
          1. Quantum Shift - @RJGlynn
          2. The Flooperzoop Ray - @guywortheyauthor
          3. Basilisk - @johnnedwill
          +Nablai's Nebula: An Exploration Across the M'Verse - @Nablai
          4. The Veil - @jinnis
          5. The Chosen One - @EvelynHail
          6. When Universes Collide - @JaneQuill28
          ~Images of a Science-Fictional Nature: Multiversal Reflections & Refractions
          7. The Shrine of the Toad - @theidiotmachine
          8. About a Dog - @DavidGibbs6
          ~Vogon Poetry Corner: Rhymes for All Space–Times
          9. Ronald the Not So Mad Scientist - @dvdvnr
          10. Recog - @PhonerionBallznevsky
          *Closing Time - @PhonerionBallznevsky
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/311557036-tk-special-7-return-to-the-m%27verse-an-ooorah

Come check out the new issue of TEVUN-KRUS, which is actually a themed short-story anthology about the multiverse!
          
          It's TK SPECIAL #7: RETURN TO THE M'VERSE!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/311557036-tk-special-7-return-to-the-m%27verse-an-ooorah
          
          5 rules weave these tales together...
          
          1. There are several religions, as many as you like, but the biggest of them all is the Church of the Almighty Toad King. Followers of this religion are known as Toadies.
          
          2. There exists a certain product called Ooorah's Specials. Whether they are cigarettes or something else, legal or illegal, is entirely up to you.
          
          3. COVID was a worlds-wide phenomenon that existed in every corner of the M'Verse. Whether it referred to a pandemic or something else—like a form of Beatlemania or something—is your call.
          
          4. Cats ride around on dogs' heads and control them by their ears. Don't fight it. It's just reality.
          
          5. Unicorns were once living, breathing animals, hunted to extinction for their beautiful horns. What those horns were capable of—if anything—is up to you.