Fiction Stories

For nine years, Snake Island’s timber rattlesnakes have been a conservation success. Then animals begin dying, sightings spread, and rats pour from Calder’s abandoned mill. Everyone knows the snakes are safely isolated offshore. Everyone may be wrong. As spring turns to summer, a struggling Massachusetts town faces an ecological disaster born from good intentions, bad assumptions, and a species protected by law.

A small town laughs at the first automobile as a noisy nuisance, but over a decade the joke slowly reverses itself: blacksmiths, bankers, farmers, doctors, and even the town’s fiercest horse loyalists discover that the motorcar is not a passing toy, but the future arriving muddy, loud, useful, and inevitable.

A Ghost, Ghosting and Ghosts. A man broken by grief, a dead wife, a business under attack, a family divided, secrets taken to the grave. This has something for everyone. Please enjoy.

Poppy Fields had no idea the family legacy was alive until her husband brutally attacked her. The monster awakened and she became a widow. Jeremy Black would give anything to be able to step in and eliminate the problem of Poppy’s cruel husband. Out of respect for the sanctity of her marriage, he remains a friend. Will Jeremy’s interest in creatures let him accept Poppy’s condition? Can Poppy accept what the monster did as her destiny? Can Jeremy convince Poppy she is His Only Desire?

A story of artificial intelligence operating within—and sometimes beyond—the systems humanity built.
A failed writer builds a fortune by letting machines tell stories for him. Then one impossible phrase begins appearing where it shouldn't, and a routine audit becomes a reckoning. As the line between creator and creation disappears, Daniel learns that every algorithm eventually traces its source. A chilling tale of technology, ambition, and poetic justice.

Humans, intelligent AIs, and sentient people shape the future.
In 2285, college student Janice Frederick receives what appears to be a straightforward assignment: explain how synthetic sentience emerged and transformed civilization. But Professor James Wilson does not want a timeline of inventions and court decisions. He wants the people the timeline forgot. Janice’s search carries her through more than a century of human and technological change—from life-extension research and controlled fusion to optical memory, asteroid mining, artificial intelligence

A romantic dinner, a charming entomologist, and one very enthusiastic off-menu dish. Technically Edible is a comedy of manners about the distance between good intentions and good judgment. Measured, in this case, in legs.

A young man named Lu Ming lives a solitary, impoverished life following the death of his mother, whose health failed after his father, Lu Yaohua, abandoned them to marry the wealthy socialite Tang Wenyi. Lu Yaohua, Tang Wenyi, and their spoiled son Lu Ze reappear only to demand that Lu Ming donate a kidney to save Lu Ze, who is dying of uremia. Their cruel and condescending approach ignites Lu Ming's long-suppressed rage. Just as he is confronted, Lu Ming activates a Superior Selection System..

Jerry Miller was betrayed and murdered by the very family he trusted in his previous life. But fate gives him a second chance. He opens his eyes to the very day his four sisters, his adopted brother, and even his beloved girlfriend, Lele Sen, falsely accuse him of sexual assault. Their plan is ruthless — destroy his reputation, force him into submission, and seize control of his billions in assets. But this time… Jerry is not the same man.

He was the most powerful man in the world — yet everyone called him a beggar. Ethan Blackthorn hides a terrifying secret: he is the Dragon Lord, a being of unimaginable power who has consumed a dragon and commands forces that could shake empires. But when a forced marriage binds him to the icy, breathtaking beauty Serena Blake, he chooses to play the part of a worthless husband… for now. Serena never wanted this sham marriage. Trapped between her ruthless family, a cursed fortune that’s slowly..