Into the Heart of Talis (Chronicles of Talis Prequel) Available: Read Chapter 1 Here

Into the Heart of Talis is out today! Sound the drums!  Witches and spies, magic and explosions! It is now available on Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Two hundred years have passed since the Witches were driven from Talis. Two hundred years of bitterness and exile, but at last their time has come. Leonora has...

Flash Fiction Friday: The Case of the People vs. Pandora

I. Long, long ago in the first years of the Thirty-First Century, the great, the good, the wicked, and the terrible, all gathered from across the Seven Galaxies for the Trial. They came in their rockets and solar sails, their hyperdrives and trans-dimensional cannons, their teleporters and astral projectors. The Judicial Station show court could...

New Short Story “The Painletter” is Now Available

  The Painletter is a short, psychological horror story about illness, pain, and Lovecraftian horrors. It is currently available for $0.99 at Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Here is the Blurb and a Brief Excerpt: Arthur Bettleheim is a man in pain.  Every moment is spent in unending, inexplicable agony. Every limb aches. Every nerve is on...

Flash Fiction Friday: The Mouse and the Dragon

Long, long ago in a great cave high in the mountains a mouse and a dragon played poker. The mouse was quite a little mouse but brave, as mice count such things. He had traveled far and wide in his youth, from the country to the town and back again. He had gone on many...

Flash Fiction Friday: The Monster of Lake Cranberry

There was a monster fishing by the lake. His name was Gerald. He was small, round, and green, the color of all proper monsters. His teeth were long and sharp. His fur was prickly and spiked. But he was, all things considered, a rather pleasant fellow. His grin was roguish and infectious, even if there...

Flash Fiction: The People vs. the Zombie Rights Foundation

It all started going wrong, when they let zombies work at the coroner's office. Everything went smoothly at first. Most funeral homes were already zombie-owned; becoming coroners wasn't all that different. Then the zombies started munching on the corpses. The Chief Examiner put up signs all over the morgue: Do Not Eat the Bodies! The...

Flash Fiction Friday: Shipwrecked

  The man and his boy made their home beneath the wreckage. A meteoroid storm had forced them to make a crash landing and it had taken them a month to salvage the debris, and another month to finally accept that no help was coming. They had strayed too far from the spacelanes. The man...

Flash Fiction Friday: A Boating Accident

It was a pleasant day on the River Styx, when Beelzebub, Prince of Hell, accidently rammed his motorboat into a luxurious yacht belonging to Belphegor, also a Prince of Hell. He was understandably disgruntled. Charon was more than disgruntled. The Styx had always been his domain. Now the denizens of Hell were joyriding; the Transportation...

Flash Fiction Friday: Concerning Cancer of the Shark & Other Miscellaneous Maladies

I. Sharks can, in fact, suffer from cancer. This fact is of some importance considering that a large number of people have, apparently, come under the impression that sharks cannot get cancer. The impression that sharks do not get cancer came, oddly enough, from a book entitled “Sharks Don’t Get Cancer,” which would seem to...

Flash Fiction Friday: Proof of Life

The combined research team stared down at the object in question with varying degrees of shock. The initial excitement, and in the case of one junior technician a full-blown panic attack, had finally subsided. The first garbled message had been sent Home, but it would be weeks before they received a reply. In the meantime,...