Check out Tales from the Crosstimbers, a quarterly periodical of speculative fiction where Max is founder and managing editor.
Max’s fiction covers many genres, most with LGBTQ protagonists
- Science Fiction
- Mystery
- Horror
- Urban fantasy/Slipstream
Max’s fiction focuses on characters you care about. Sometimes ordinary, sometimes quirky, sometimes downright evil, the conflict between the characters drives the story.
Meantime, here’s the lastest science news.
- A little movement in midlife could pay off for your brain years later
- Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
- Scientists reveal why walking gets so much harder with age
- A new Ice Age species was hiding in la brea tar pits fossils for decades
- A black hole shredded a “super sun” — but something strange may have survived
- COVID-19 awakens dormant viruses — and one is linked to long COVID
- A 30-year-old fossil was hiding bones from a mysterious ancient sea monster
- Common food preservative linked to rising suicide deaths among young people
- A 60-year-old theory about ants, bees and wasps may be wrong
- Scientists solve the mystery of a brain “switch” that can trigger weight loss in opposite ways
- Immune cells flood into the aging brain, Stanford scientists discover
- Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first time
- A stress hormone may help the brain repair itself
- Women taking estrogen had fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains
- Paleontology rocked by organic molecules found in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones










