Author
Joshua C.
Patton
Who is Joshua C. Patton?Joshua C. Patton is a speculative fiction author who writes like the end of the world already happened — and maybe it did. His stories wander through broken futures, forgotten histories, and the weird in-between spaces where myth and memory blur. Expect satire, strange tech, lost faith, and the kind of characters who hold onto hope with bloody knuckles.He’s the author of Zān, a hopeful tragedy about a girl who won’t quit even when the bots do, and We Will Cross That Bridge While It’s Burning, a collection of odd, dark, maybe-too-honest tales. His current obsession is the Relics of Folly series — a sprawling post-apocalyptic epic where language is sacred, pigs are companions, and the gods might be code.
Notes & Oddities
September 18, 2025 - This month, the ADHD goblins have been winning more battles than I’d like to admit. My brain has been bouncing around like a loose marble in a tin can, plenty of ideas, half a dozen distractions, and yes… actual writing, too.The result? A handful of new stories are up on Medium, each spun from the chaos in my head. If you haven’t read them yet, go check them out, I promise they’re worth the ride.And of course, The Mad River Prophecy is still coming. I might zigzag to get there, but the work continues. The world keeps expanding, and every detour somehow feeds back into the big story.Thanks for sticking with me through the noise. More words, worlds, and wildness are on the way.– JoshP.S. If you haven’t yet, you can also grab my novella Zān
on Amazon.July 21, 2025 - Kicking Tires, Lighting Fires
We’re closing in on the end of editing for Relics of Folly: Book I – The Mad River Prophecy.
Which means fewer chapters being rewritten from scratch and more obsessing over things like whether the word “rusted” appears too often (it does), and whether a comma can change the fate of a sentence (it can).But here’s the twist:
I'm not sending this book out into the world alone. It'll be launching with a companion piece, The Scrolls of Books the Bibleman, a delightful pile of questionable memories, rewritten history, and emotional monologues from everyone's favorite scripture-hoarding disaster linguist.
Think less encyclopedia, more uncensored confessional with footnotes and occasional hallucinations.Meanwhile, because I thrive on creative overcommitment, I’m also hammering away at a second volume of short stories—tentatively titled We Will Cross That Bridge While It’s Burning: Volume II.
If the first one dipped its toes into chaos, this one dives in headfirst with a lit match between its teeth.So yes, things are happening. Too many things. Probably all at once.
Updates will follow. Or explode. Either way, you’ll hear about it.– Josh