Bound by both blood and a mysterious psychic connection, two barbarian twins, Oleksandr and Thekkur, break the chains of slavery to become nomadic mercenaries in the unforgiving lands of the East. Driven by the desire to find a sense of home and belonging they've never experienced, they embark on a ...

They took his tongue and with it, his song and his sorcery. They threw him to the lions, expecting him to die. Mauled, multilated, and bereft of magic, Arn survives. A prisoner in Aquila, the northern skáld has lost all his powers. But a felled tree can regrow. A destroyed house can be rebuilt. A br...

A small-time bounty hunter goes on the hunt for a cattle and horse thief. 1252 words....

A vampire hunter reflects on the events that brought him to this day. Another real old story of mine, quite dark and brutal backstory of a character I never ended up using.  Maybe do something interesting with him again someday.   Lol...

I’m not of your world, but I had a front-row seat to a little-known drama that nearly brought about your demise. Truth be told, I’ve actually been wanting to tell you about this saga for some time. It’s a short tale, relatively speaking. It does, though, begin before the birth of Christ. There’s a m...

The son and the daughter of the deposed emperor of China move mountains in order to restore the throne and vanquish a magician who can turn stones into gold....

Two men have a showdown in the middle of Tucson, Arizona Territory. Originally finished October 5, 2024....

What’s the point of a second chance at life if you don’t use it to live dangerously? Closing his eyes for what he thought would be the final time didn’t go even nearly the way Zhujiao expected. If waking up to a foreign language, in a completely different place and in what seems like a different tim...

(Story complete - Book 1 "Shanghaied", 2 "Shortcuts", 3 "Secrets" and 4 "Sanctions") It is the 19th century, and war smoulders between England and France. Any hope for a quick end to Napoleon's rampage across Europe ended when the Great Gates opened in 1800. For a fortunate few, the strange world o...

"One expedition... Two archaeologists. One... German, the other... Russian. One Objective: To discover the truth behind the 1908 Siberian Tunguska explosion." The first novel in the Tissue of Deception Trilogy, titled "Aktion Donnerwaffe"... (Operation Thunderweapon)... is set in 1937. The story ope...

It is 1968. The place is Indochina.Stacey Mckenna is no ordinary pilot. She flies the lethal skies of Laos and Cambodia in unarmed airplanes and helicopters. She is eighteen years old... an age when most of her contemporaries are still in senior high school, or are freshmen at college.She flies for ...

Two brothers live in one city.  One brother finds a treasure and he shares his wealth with his brother.  The other brother treats his brother in an unexpected way.  How will the story end?...

Deep in the jungle reclusive orphan Seng Nu uses her magic to save the life of Zaw, a young trainee mahout at Buttersweet Elephant camp. Zaw is in love with Jin Bu, the daughter of Gunthaw, Buttersweet's fiery owner. Seng Nu's arrival shake's everything up, and before long, there's romance, magic an...

The MacLaughlin Brothers are about to lose their farm and have few remaining connections with the world around them. It won’t stop otherworldly forces from dragging them into a battle to save 15th-century Ireland. Donal struggles with a tormented mind–but it wasn't always so. His older brother, Finn...

The second novel in the Tissue of Deception Trilogy, titled  "The Red Horseman"... revolves around a large, seventy-carat, blood-red Garnet said, in ancient legend, to have been mounted in the sword pommel of an unspeakably evil Entity who was called by name: "Baelar... Lord of The Underdark," and w...

Qing Xiashu spends enough time caring for those around him that he doesn't realize how much he clings to someone just slightly more stable. Against his better judgment he leans into someone the world warned him not to.  His errors are clear enough. Between the adoption of his daughter and the way he...

The third novel in the Tissue of Deception Trilogy, titled: "The Fifth Freedom"  continues tracing Charlotte Mckenna's adventures as she seeks to track down this malignant gemstone and destroy it, before it unleashes a series of events that could lead to the destruction of Mankind.  Being an accompl...