The Wil-Low Series
Short novels. Big ideas. Extensive notes.
Fast, entertaining stories that pull you into worlds of mystery, science fiction, horror, and alternate history, followed by the notes that reveal the real-world characters, places, events, and research that inspired them.
These books combine the pleasure of a good story with the curiosity of a non-fiction book: quick to read, difficult to forget, and filled with ideas worth exploring long after the final page.
These books are for readers who are curious about the world, but who don't always have the time or patience for a lengthy novel.
Each story can be read in a single evening, yet each opens a door to real history, science, folklore, philosophy, or emerging technology through
numerous end notes and references. Think of them as entertaining thought experiments: stories first, ideas second, and rabbit holes available for those who want to dig deeper.
Why these books are different
They are:
- Short enough to finish.
- Written from original screenplays (except the short stories).
- Stand-alone stories with no series commitment.
- Speculative fiction rooted in real ideas.
- Designed for both fiction readers and non-fiction readers who want to separate fact from fiction.
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Titles
Publication date: October 1, 2026 [Details | Purchase]
Tagline: War isn’t won by force — it’s won by minds.
Logline: In the summer of 1945, after the Manhattan Project fails and Japan refuses to surrender, a team of scientists is sent to Nagasaki to seize control of a mecha army before the invasion of Japan begins.
Story: 90 pages
End notes: 40 pages
Total page count: 134 pages
Blurb: Summer 1945. The war in Europe is over, but Japan refuses to surrender.
When British codebreaker Alan Turing is kidnapped and taken to the Mitsubishi Complex in Nagasaki, he is forced to test the
encryption behind Japan’s newest weapon: towering hydraulic mecha samurai.
Across the Pacific, American scientists Terman, Oppenheimer, Hewlett, and Packard race aboard the experimental submarine
Nautilus to complete a revolutionary quantum computer.
Inside the Nagasaki factory, undercover agent Natsuki Tanaka risks everything to obtain a single control chip—the key to
overriding the mechas' encrypted signals.
A gripping alternate-history thriller where the fate of the world hinges on a computer chip, a handful of spies, and an alliance of history's greatest minds.
Publication date: October 1, 2026 [Details | Purchase]
Tagline: Knowledge without wisdom is an abomination.
Logline: In 19th‑century Arkham, three brilliant sisters uncover a forbidden book. When one begins experimenting with its secrets, she crosses the boundary between life and death, threatening her family—and the entire town.
Story: 71 pages
End notes: 35 pages
Total page count: 111 pages
Blurb: The gifted Lovecraft sisters—responsible April, ambitious May, and prodigy June—uncover a forbidden manuscript hidden in the abandoned university library: the Necronomicon.
Fascinated by its scientific approach to reanimation, May secretly experiments with its teachings and succeeds in resurrecting dead animals.
But when she applies the process to herself, she returns stripped of emotion and becomes the first carrier of a rapidly mutating contagion.
The screenplay on which this novel is based won an honorable mention in the 2026 13HORROR.COM Film & Screenplay Contest,
as well as in the July 2026 Frights! Camera! Action! Horror Screenplay Contest.
Publication date: October 1, 2026 [Details | Purchase]
Tagline: Every empire is built on something that feeds.
Logline: In 1821, a dying Napoleon Bonaparte is turned into a vampire by a shadowy baron and must ally with a vampire-hunting woman to break free from his maker's control, sparking a supernatural war for control of Haiti and the Caribbean.
Story: 92 pages
End notes: 40 pages
Total page count: 136 pages
Blurb: As the North threatens trade with the Old World, southern leaders hatch a desperate plan: retrieve the dying Napoleon Bonaparte from Saint Helena, resurrect him as a vampire, and make him their champion.
But in New Orleans, the reborn emperor must choose—become the undead ruler of America, or rebel against the dark force that controls him.
Publication date: November 15, 2026 [Details | Purchase]
Tagline: Thirteen short science fiction stories.
Logline: Sometimes the greatest mystery lies beyond the stars. Sometimes it is staring back at us from the mirror.
Stories: 95 pages
End notes: 36 pages
Total page count: 136 pages
Blurb: What if the universe is a mirror? What if Earth is nothing more than a reality show watched from the stars?
What if a single act of compassion changes an entire civilization?
In these thirteen science-fiction stories, Bruno Lowagie explores worlds where reality is never quite what it seems.
Space explorers, time travelers, artificial intelligences, extraterrestrials, dream merchants, and ordinary people find themselves confronted with an unsettling question:
What happens when you look at the same reality from a different point of view?
By turns thought-provoking, humorous, satirical, and hopeful, Mirror point is a collection of stories about first contact, identity, freedom, technology, and humanity's endless capacity for self-deception and self-discovery.
Publication date: November 15, 2026 [Details | Purchase]
Tagline: Who deserves a second Earth?
Logline: When Big Tech uses a revolutionary mind-expanding drug to explore distant planets and abandon a dying Earth, a pilot connected to the technology's first victim becomes the only person capable of protecting humanity against its self-appointed saviors.
Story: 106 pages
End notes: 27 pages
Total page count: 134 pages
Blurb: In a near-future Earth ravaged by environmental collapse, struggling chemistry student Luke Smith accidentally discovers a drug that allows access to the fourth dimension, making instantaneous travel possible.
Before he can profit from the discovery, he is eliminated by Project Exodus, a secret program controlled by powerful corporate and political elites.
Years later, factory worker Lance Stephens is hired as an explorer tasked with surveying alien worlds. As explorers die and colonists are sacrificed in humanity's desperate search for a new home, Lance gradually realizes the true cost of survival.
Eventually, a habitable planet is found. While Earth's ruling class prepares to abandon billions behind, Luke's sister Monica—now a trusted pilot within the organization—uncovers evidence linking her boss to Luke's death.
When the elite launch a final plan to destroy Earth and secure exclusive control of humanity's future, Monica must choose between revenge, justice, and the survival of civilization itself.
Publication date: January 1, 2027 [Purchase]
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Publication date: January 1, 2027 [Purchase]
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