Brian Eckert

Writer. Wanderer. Dreamer. Skeptic. Man.

Category: Fiction

Checked Out

The reprobates, at least, had the decency to not leave bad online reviews.

Rise of the Goatmen: A Review of Into the Vortex

“Eckert’s Into the Vortex is what is needed as some sort of plague runs rampant over the world. Some say this is a virus. The experts say this. A virus. What exactly is a virus? Is it an insect? As far as I know, it is an insect. I am not going to wiki this. […]

Into The Vortex Now On Sale

My debut novel, Into The Vortex, has been published by Terror House Press. It is a darkly comic look at the emptiness of 21st century life, the yearning for something beyond Netflix and video games, and how advertisers and phony “spiritual gurus” prey on the listlessness of modern people. Click here to buy the paperback […]

INTO THE VORTEX: AN EXCERPT

John Amaru Pinker had a goatee and wore an iron ring on his left hand depicting a serpent swallowing its own tail.

Off-Trail

The night sky was a forgotten piece of himself, rediscovered. His blue sky self, his night sky self. He had seen so much, he had seen so little.

Unhappy Camper

It’s tragic: nature destroyed by her own creations. Probably the same fate awaits us.

Getaway

Arguably the only thing that differentiated one modern man from another was his own distinct brand of unhappiness.

INTO THE VORTEX [EXCERPT]

The story has a life of its own. Things have a life of their own. We need to let them develop. But we don’t. We kill them.

Market Correction: An Excerpt from Sex Island

I received an invitation to my 20th high school reunion. How they’d tracked me down I did not know. There is no escaping these people once they set their mind to finding you. The breakdown of privacy meant, among other things, receiving a constant barrage of reminders about how you were getting old and had […]

Self-Portrait

Jehovah’s Witnesses had always struck me as Bolsheviks. But I had never seen a Bolshevik like her.