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.
Da Lee and Shao Lee come to America chasing the American Dream. Instead, they find themselves trapped in a hellish nightmare. No one escapes from Hell alone.
Young Christopher and his little sister Sarah must go on the run after their kingdom loses a war and becomes a conquered nation. Through torment and wonder can Christopher become the Dragon King and free his people?
Ryan Uruks and Eclair Hamashe are trapped on Black Star, hunted by the monstrous Parasites and their undead hordes. Injured and alone, the young Elementals must work past their differences if they are to have any hope of survival. As they grow closer to one another, the danger only intensifies... as does their bond. The exciting conclusion of the Black Star saga, Part 2 combines heart-stopping action, quirky humor, and a tragic romance that transcends the stars themselves.
His eyes were dead. His face flat and expressionless. He moved through life without living. Warning: Do not read if depressed or prone to depression. There is no happy ending in this story.*****TeNderLoin: Powerful. Well worth reading.
A story of artificial intelligence operating within—and sometimes beyond—the systems humanity built.
In a future where knowledge is uploaded while children sleep, Robert James has never known life without Wren, the AI inside his mind. For twenty-six years, Wren has guided his education, guarded his memories, and helped shape his future. Then Robert’s hand stops obeying him—and a second voice whispers from somewhere inside his own head.
A deadly virus sweeps the world bringing dead back to life. A Think Tank Group is at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex when the alert is issued. Its senior members join in a conference with the Commander of the United States Northern Command who relays their orders from the Pentagon. Maximilian 'Mad Max' Milton, the 2nd in-charge of the Think Tank gives reason to his nickname, and the war is on with those afflicted with The Contagion. Will they win the war, can they win the war? 11,400 words.
Parliament is in Session is a darkly comic dispatch from the edge of the woods, where domestic life, folklore, and one very sensible dog meet beneath a tree that absolutely knows more than it is saying.