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.
- Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected
- Animals have been eating nature’s original bioplastic for millions of years
- A little-known protein may be fueling Alzheimer’s — and scientists found a way to block it
- 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










