Relive a fateful day in Afghanistan with Captain Ben Clarkson and the Marines of Bravo company. This is a short story, that may be expanded into a series.
The world of Darvin Carpenter, a PI in Albuquerque, NM
A man hires Darvin Carpenter to find his daughter, who's been missing for years and he's tracked to Albuquerque. But it turns out that his daughter goes to church with Darvin - and ran away from home because her father was raping her. This carries on the story of *Flower In the Wind* - see my newest blog post and that story for more info.
Anna Karenina is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, and eventually takes her own life.
Immortality. What does that mean? Not the definition but the actuality of living forever. What is the difference bewtween living a life you know will end and a life that could go on until the sun burns out? This silly notion is what confronts a young man on his 30th birthday as events spin out of control and go from a surprise family get-together to a struggle of cosmological proportions. This is the tragic story of Tiernan Cathal MacCormac's 30th birthday and what happens in the aftermath.
Jeorling, a wealthy American, has entertained himself with private studies of the wildlife on the Kerguelen Islands and is now looking for a passage back to the USA. Halbrane is one of the first ships to arrive at Kerguelen, and its captain somewhat reluctantly agrees to have Jeorling as a passenger as far as Tristan da Cunha. Underway, they meet a stray iceberg with a dead body on it...
A Story in the Anthony Carter, Family & Friends Universe
When 18-year-old Anthony Carter, lowly second mate in a small schooner, and Harriet Lambert, the young, arrogant daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, barely survive a shipwreck, they recognise each other's mettles. A short-lived romance ensues, but it takes years and great perils and pains for them to find happiness together. A romance set during the Napoleonic Wars.