Present WIP (16k words so far): A low-key urban fiction/mystery about a group of maladjusted magical college students who try to stop the deaths of students in their rural campus after the doctor proves incompetent. Whether they succeed in not killing each other is as big a question as whether they succeed in
not getting killed by other means
Backburner (94k words so far): Political thriller/mystery. A young man and his friends discover that a Senator's daughter has just been killed. A drug induced fantasy convinces the MC that there's enough evidence to pin the crime on him, so he goes out to find the real killer first. Things escalate when an shadowy man claiming to represent the Senator "rescues him," and the mission to clear his name becomes part of a greater mission to dismantle a rival political group before a second civil war sets off.
I don't know if I ever will finish that one. Even at 94,000 words, it's less than a third of what I have envisioned.
Way way way way on the backburner: Another urban fantasy. On the night zombies simultaneously strike every city on the planet, a scrawny teenager gets dragged into an all-out war between established orders of Magic Knights and a upstart group that wants to use the zombie apocalypse to impose their rule on the world by convincing world governments they are the good ideas.
My feelings on this are...complicated. The backstory and where I wanted to take it are rather large in scale. The fight between the two groups is just a sideshow that gets eclipsed when Satan is released. God is a 16 year old girl that got chopped up into little pieces when she pissed her Angels a bit too much, Heaven is ruled over by genocidal nuts that want to exterminate all mortal life, and Hell is a wonderful place where mortal souls are digested as a delicacy by a social democracy.
On the other hand, it sucks. Which is why it is WAYYYYY on the backburner