Fiction

Reading Time: 5 minutesHumanity finally finds God, waiting in a nearby planetary system. Of course, that’s when the problems begin.

Reading Time: 17 minutesThe country that gave the world Bach, Mozart and Beethoven used poison gas, barbed wire and machine guns in order to kill as many men as possible.  The countries that gave the world Shakespeare, Milton, Bizet, Victor Hugo, Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy responded in kind. 

Reading Time: 17 minutesNehan is her people’s wartime queen, and must surrender her crown if she can repel her country’s invaders. With her biological daughters dead, she must hope she has done enough to smooth the way for her adopted son, the orphan of poor nomad folk, to rule after her.

Reading Time: 14 minutesA galoot is kidnapped by aliens for medical experiments. He becomes unexpectedly intelligent, takes out the aliens and conquers earth.

Reading Time: 5 minutesFor a split second, I couldn’t tell if it was a person pounding at the door or the wind, but then I heard a young voice scream, “HELP! HELP ME!”

Reading Time: 19 minutesThe monster began to come towards him, its massive arms at its sides, and its trunk-like feet sliding along the ground.

Reading Time: 10 minutesIn her bed was found a messy pile of blood-stained bones and skull and jaw fragments.

Reading Time: 16 minutesMy helmet melted away, revealing what should have been a skull, but instead showcased thousands of minuscule cables, flicking lights and tiny gears, latched to my brain and wiring me into the armor’s motor functions. It had become a part of my body.

Reading Time: 6 minutesThere was a quick, frantic splashing, an ascent of bubbles, and then nothing.

Reading Time: 10 minutesIt’s Georgia I see, naked in that corner, hands shackled high, a coyote half inside her, squirming at the jagged hole in her gut.

Reading Time: 5 minutesOur nightmare started when they decided to take home mementos.

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen people start to get mysterious spots and disappear, Jude becomes concerned, but all is not what it seems as he searches for the truth.

Reading Time: 18 minutesAs artificial intelligence and nanotechnology are changing the way we wage war, some things will always stay the same.

Reading Time: 4 minutesAn old-tech modem leads an ex-con back into a world of crime.

Reading Time: 8 minutesAn unusual love story in a portentous time and setting.

Reading Time: 8 minutesI’ve met countless souls over the years – rich and poor, young and old, across many different places and many different times, but never had I met anyone quite like him.

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat good is being psychic if you can only predict someone’s coffee order or that their shoe will come untied? But our heroine’s normally mundane talent takes a dark turn when she realizes she’s going to be hit by a car. Will she survive? Can she change her fate?

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe shack sits like the hollowed-out shell of a dead insect. The inner walls bleed with rotten wallpaper, and the floor is a gray slab, with a single window overlooking a black sea

Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen a chain-smoking, foul-mouthed finned gypsy washes up in a small Oregon town, the acting Chief of Police finds herself becoming a reluctant mermaids’ rights activist.