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

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