The Fictional Reality of White Empires

I am a storyteller as a writer. My work is usually weird. The military science fiction of my White Empires universe is set in a world like our own yet quite different. It is alternate history but not really. It is not speculative. The particulars are with adventure stories in mind.

The following is an alternate history that could have happened...

The Confederate States of America won the War Between the States. It secured its claim to Missouri and Kentucky in the Second War Between the States. The Confederacy conquered Mexico and Cuba, assimilating their ruling classes at the expense of the commoners. It became the Empire of the Golden Circle and established its new capital in Havana.

The Confederacy was officially and proudly white supremacist. Only the racially European were allowed citizenship. The black people were slaves and the brown people virtually surfs.

The British and the French supported the Confederacy in the beginning. The French felt betrayed when the Confederate forces that entered Mexico to support Maximilian conquered the country instead. The Confederacy sided with the British and the French in the Great War and sent troops to Europe... only to be sanctioned by its allies after the war because of slavery.

The Confederate government was dominated by two parties: the conservative Christian Democrats and the progressive Social Democrats. Both parties were racist. The Christian Democrats argued that slavery tamed savages and using brown people as cheap labor made business affordable. The Social Democrats argued that the common white man was kept impoverished by a system that deliberately excluded him.

The Christian Democrats loathed Marxism as a threat to every tradition, especially religion and social hierarchy. The Social Democrats agreed with its notions of class struggle but disliked its atheism and notions of racial equality.

When the Social Democrat Huey Long was elected President, the Confederacy ratified the Anti-Comintern Pact, with the staunch support of both parties. The Confederate States of America became an Axis power.

The following is a notion of alternate history...

What if Adolf Hitler was born in 1989 instead of 1889? He becomes the Chancellor of Germany in 2033, while it is a member of the European Union. The indigenous population of the Continent is being overwhelmed by the black and brown people of elsewhere.

Unlike Rhodesia and South Africa, the Confederate States of America would never relinquish is systemic racism without a fight. I do not mean police actions. I mean total war. The population would fanatically resist. This was proven by the American Civil War, when the Confederate States killed hundreds of thousands of invaders before eventually and not easily conquered.

What would Hitler do if he seized control of a Europe inspired by his hopeful albeit racist message? What empire would sympathize with his cause? The Confederate States of America, of course!

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Notorious Glory

Al Capone and John Gotti are the two most famous gangsters of all time. They were famous while alive... in a business that is all about secrecy. They were brazen... in a line of work that favors caution. Both men were bosses who rose quickly only to fall just as quickly. Their supposedly inglorious downfalls instead proved dramatic tragedies, thus, legendary all the more.

A crime boss is a business man. His success can be measured by wealth and power. A legend is always a hero, even if the villain. His success can be measured by how many movies are made about him. Al Capone and John Gotti are real men who became legendary.

“For what should it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world yet lose his soul?”

– Jesus

A worldly success is a spiritual failure more often than not. The worldly successes of Al Capone and John Gotti meant nothing... no matter what. To die free and rich or imprisoned and poor is to die regardless.

Al Capone and John Gotti did not live in vain. They inspired people. They still do. Death was not the end of them.

The spiritual success of Al Capone and John Gotti was the very thing that ruined their temporal lives. They lived life to the fullest. They held nothing back. They shined their light for all to see. They did not hide it under a basket. Like the title character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, they refused to hide their plume. They wore it proudly... and are remembered forever for it.

Like Samson, Al Capone and John Gotti did deserve to fall. It was not because they were criminals, however. It was because they were proud. They were selfish. They should have been themselves in all sincerity, not as a matter of honor. Even as criminals, they would prove morally superior to those who brought them down.

Conan the Inspiration

I have been a Conan fan since my childhood in the 1970s. My interest began with the Frank Frazetta covers. It was intensified by a gory graphic novel by Marvel comics. I read the original Robert E. Howard short story Jewels of Gwalhur. I was not allowed to watch the 1982 Conan the Barbarian movie till later because my mother disapproved of the nudity and gore.

I read every Conan story written by its original author... but they were modified by the pulp magazine Weird Tales and later by L. Sprague de Camp. I loved them... but was disappointed to learn they were not entirely true Robert E. Howard's work.

I read the true Robert E. Howard versions... and love them.

I write my own fiction. It is very much inspired by the works of Robert E. Howard. His relationship with H.P. Lovecraft encouraged me to read Lovecraft too, and I was not disappointed. I was inspired yet again.

Conan is about a hero in a world of survival-of-the-fittest. Savagery ultimately outmatches civilization. Even the civilized thrive as brutes. The universe is still one that favors good over evil, however. It simply distinguishes goodness from law and order and compassion from ethics or pity.

Like the original Conan stories, my work is mostly novellas, novelettes and short stories. The settings, like the Hyborean Age of Conan are worlds where the wars of tribes, nations and empires are not struggles of good against evil. The heroes are antiheroes until they do what they do for the sake of the innocent... and they are especially brutal when protecting or avenging the innocent.

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Twelve of Three and Counting

I have written over seven hundred thousand words as twelve books since December of 2022. More books are pending. I have already designed their covers.

I am an artist. My books are my art, both inside and out.

Creativity is not waiting for time that never comes. It is not starting what is never finished. You find the time by making it. You finish by starting and never stopping.

I am deaf to excuses. I judge every tree by the fruit it bears. Those who have nothing to show for themselves are nothing accordingly.

The Sorcerer books of my White Empires universe are military science fiction. The nuanced villain and his strangely wholesome relationship with his evil daughter are perhaps my greatest dramatic accomplishment.

My Weird World books are surreal horror, usually as survival horror. I was able to craft an immersive setting based on the weirdness of my actual dreams.

Black Death is black comedy as action-adventure. Its antihero protagonists are strangely endearing. Their murderous hobby is strangely righteous, without vilifying the victims.

My tree bears fruit. Though few are reading my many books, I did write them. I documented my imagination. It is available to be found and appreciated.

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Weird World

I started writing Weird World on February 15, 2024. It began with a short story that became the novel The Wayward School for Girls. The universe was named in the title of the second book, the collection Tales of a Weird World.

Since childhood, I am fascinated by the surreal and scary. My favorite thing to imagine is the easy killing of clueless guards by the bare hands of someone bigger and stronger. I created Weird World to express these interests.

A fantasy can be a simple idea imagined as one scenario. It can be written as a short story. That is how Weird World began. It became a novel as the very idea inspired more ideas. Other interests were incorporated.

Immersion requires context... and context requires depth and consistency.

A universe is limited if merely the setting of one story and its cast of characters. Tales of a Weird World had nothing to do with The Wayward School for Girls... except that the villain was a villain in other stories with different heroes.

The novel The Wayward Monster Girl is the third Weird World book written, followed by the collection Stories of a Weird World. The universe expanded into a setting distinct from its protagonists. The villains became suitable baddies for countless stories with new heroes.

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Impersonally Intimate

I write fiction. My Weird Word universe is a dreamlike horror setting. Characters are children or elderly because of their state of mind, not actual age. The same character can go from one to the other then back again, but not by will. It happens naturally.

The villains are typically adults. They use children as cheap labor and cannon-fodder.

Not every character is human. These Other Folk are what they are from the beginning and indefinitely.

The novel The Wayward Monster Girl is about a little girl turned into a monster by adults meaning to use her as a weapon. She is bitten by her vampiric doppelganger and seemingly dies. Alas, the blood is the life of the body... and the girl becomes the doppelganger. The human becomes a monster without losing her humanity.

The victim becomes the hero. Girls turned into killers by mind control are sent to kill her... only to be slaughtered in droves. Monsters are sent after her... only to be slain by their intended prey.

The protagonist becomes a hero by becoming a monster. She enjoys killing girls like herself with pathetic ease... and is a monster accordingly. She only kills armed hostiles, however, never the innocent... and is human accordingly.

The monstrous heroine prefers the easy killing of humans to the challenge of killing other monsters. When asked about it, she explains, “Easy is fun. You can do something and relax at the same time.”

The heroine is whimsical. She does not think about her motives unless asked. Her answer is always immediate and flippant, though sincere. It is not merely the ease that makes the killing of humans fun. It is her own humanity. She can relate to her victims, though they are strangers. The violence is impersonally intimate accordingly.

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Dramatically Happy

I am a storyteller as a writer of fiction. As such, I am mindful that it is easier to make a story dramatic by making it tragic. Simply craft a character according to what is obviously sympathetic and then kill him or his dearest loved one.

I do better than what is easy.

My most dramatic work is the Sorcerer series of my White Empires universe. Its most endearing character is its villain, a genocidal war criminal. His specialty is mass-murdering children. He recruits his teenage daughter to assist him. The reader wants him to be defeated... yet is likely to weep when he is. His archenemy, the sympathetic mother of his daughter prevails, so the story is not a tragedy.

A story that makes you weep by its happy ending is greater than any tragedy. Unlike a sad ending, it inspires you. It gives you hope rather than makes you cynical.

I do write tragedies. It is not to easily evoke strong emotions. It is to convey something meaningful. The doom of the protagonist is spiritual before physical, thus justified.

We yearn for goodness in a world of evil. You are the evil... though you are not alone. Despite your desperate wickedness, you intuitively understand that there is no satisfaction without justice. There is only gratification at best... and you become numb and restless whether gratified or not.

Even fiction ultimately fails to satisfy unless justice prevails, for better or worse. A tragedy is ultimately pathetic even as make-believe unless its victim deserves his grim fate. The innocent victims must be avenged... or the story is lacking.

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