Fiction
Short stories, novels, and creative fiction
Why I'm Going To YouTube
Greetings, fellow Lavish Mates. This is just me announcing my new YouTube Channel @TimKailCreates. Dissatisfied with the film festival submission...
Hamlet Prepares
Greetings, one and all. Here is my latest short film. It tells the story of a community theatre actor who lands the role of a lifetime. Enjoy and l...
I'm Writing A Book!
I'm writing a book! The Work Of Wrestling: A Book About Art is a combination of my best work over the past decade with entirely new writing on the ...
Vertical Cut
The building had no name, just floors stacked like bad decisions. Rain turned the concrete into glass. Kade was already moving when the first knif...
INDIANA JONES AND THE BLOOD SUN CROWN
The rain came down hard and hot, turning the Guatemalan jungle into a steaming graveyard of mud and insects. Indiana Jones hated jungles. He hated...
Wolverine : No Survivors
The rain comes down like nails. Neon bleeds across the wet asphalt. Logan smells them before he sees them, gun oil, cheap cologne, fear trying to...
Author J.J. McGee On Next Week's Work Of Wrestling Podcast
If you've been a member of the pro-wrestling community over the past decade you've likely come across the work of J.J. McGee aka MithGifs. J.J. app...
2060 Poster
Just something fun I cooked up for my next short film, 2060: [Your paragraph text-4.png]
2060
I've begun work on my next film, 2060, a sci-fi short that shows the day in the life of a man living 34 years in the future. Here's one of my favo...
Breath Before Impact
Lantern light. Wet stone. He stands still long enough to be mistaken for afraid. Footsteps rush in. A punch, he doesn’t block. He empties the sp...
Soft Hands, Hard End
Night. Rain. Stone. Liang waits. Three men step in. Steel whispers. No threats, only breath and intent. The first lunges. Liang shifts an inch. ...
IRON TIGER, NEON BLOOD
The city breathed steam and neon, exhaling heat through manhole covers like a wounded animal. Rain slicked the streets until every light doubled i...
Hamlet Prepares Short Film Trailer
Hello, all. Here is a trailer for my next short film, Hamlet Prepares. It's currently doing the rounds in a few film festivals so I can't share th...
To Be An Indie Filmmaker Or Not...
This past year I fully embraced the concept of being an independent artist. What does that mean? In a nutshell, it means I make art simply to make ...
That time I was on Stone Cold's podcast...
When I started my podcast, The Work Of Wrestling, in 2015 one of my goals was to be on Stone Cold Steve Austin's podcast. A couple years later it a...
THE SALT-WOLF
The wind came off the black sea like a blade being sharpened. It worried the long grass into whispers and pressed salt into the mouth of the nigh...
NEON TIGER, BLACK LOTUS
The rain came down hard enough to bruise the city. Neon bled across wet pavement, signs buzzing in Cantonese and English, advertising sins you cou...
OFFSET ERROR
The call came at 02:11. Christian Wolff was awake already. He lay flat on the narrow bed of the Airstream, hands folded on his chest, eyes open, c...
RECONCILIATION IN BLOOD
The file arrived on a flash drive the size of a thumbnail. No return address. No note. Just a single spreadsheet, a set of shell companies stack...
MAX PAYNE: AMMUNITION FOR THE SOUL
The city was locked and loaded. You could feel it in the air, like static before a lightning strike. New York didn’t sleep, it chambered a round a...