Alden C. Sloane

I’m Alden C. Sloane, a fiction writer, essayist, and former scientist writing about ambition, absurdity, reinvention, and the strange machinery of human behavior. After leaving academia to pursue writing full-time, I now publish short fiction, essays, and serialized literary experiments that blend comedy, philosophy, surrealism, and the occasional emotional ambush. This site is the central home for my stories, essays, projects, and dispatches from the uncertain borderland between respectable adulthood and whatever this is.

Read the lastest fiction series.

The Wonderment Series

The Camp Stories Collection

Follow the journey.

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View fullsize Howling’ at the Moon is a short story that follows a young man who seeks refuge in a secluded cottage after a difficult breakup. He doesn’t quite find the rest he was hoping for, and he accidentally summons Regret. #writersofinstagram #
View fullsize This short story follows a sensitive young man who only wants to escape it all. Unfortunately, the forest has other ideas. A dark comedy in the deep woods. #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #author #authorcommunity #fiction
View fullsize My second short story (available on Substack - link in bio) follows Jin-ah Pak, a professional who fuses architecture and neuroscience to produce emotionally resonant spaces. Imagine if the office felt more comforting than home? What would be the imp
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