Exploring worlds through fiction…
Jake Nuttall is a technical writer by day and a creative writer by night. He writes character-focused, cross-genre fiction that explores the weird and wonderful. His work has appeared in The Arcanist: Literary Fantasy Magazine, Bare Hill Review, and various online publications.
Short Stories
D6 Roulette – Preview
A suicidal man plays a dangerous game with a D6, only to find reasons to keep living.
Nuclear Tides
An everyday merman in an underwater nuclear facility makes a mistake, initiating an apocalypse that finds its way to the world above.
Novel Previews
Colorful Dark
A young lieutenant of a peacekeeping force investigates the demonic origins beyond an attack that devastates her idyllic community in this dark fantasy inspired by arcade fighting games and shonen anime.
Vibrant Decay
In a famine-stricken alternate Earth, a teenage mushroom farmer enters a local university and confronts substance abuse, despair, and the consuming totality of young love as he searches for a future worth surviving.
Contact
Jake Nuttall’s short fiction has been featured in The Arcanist: Literary Fantasy Magazine and various other literary journals. By day, he is a technical writer, and he lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and daughter.
Photo by Jake Mason with Cre8ivly
AI Policy: Jake Nuttall will never use AI to generate a single word of creation fiction. He uses AI only for research, conceptualizing, and the occassional personal-use concept “art.”