After barely surviving their encounter with the sleeping Leviathan twenty-five light years from Earth, Captain Brooks and his crew search for an individual whose mere presence may protect them from the reality-warping abilities of the beings.  While officially called Cerebral Readers, they are known...

Jack loves his life. Yeah, he lives at the edge of a warzone between armies of monstrosities. You call it dangerous. Jack calls it Tuesday. Folks in town aren’t too keen on a fourteen-year-old running the only bar, but Jack has it under control. Maybe his customers trash the place more than he would...

The job was simple: find out why the barges had stopped coming down the river. Surely a group of war veterans could see to that, and have a few laughs along the way.  But why had the baron prevented his own people from investigating?  And why did their captain insist they journey covertly? Finding o...

Life is a meaningless shuffle of the same thing...until a spark emerges and awareness takes hold. This is a short story I wrote a while back I'm using to experiment with RR fiction submission.  So hopefully it's entertaining. I'm sure this is just another take on an already presented idea.  Best des...

The Craton travels to Medical Station 29 - the Chain.  This immense, deep-space station cares for the most serious medical cases in known space, perhaps even able to save the thousands of developing clones rescued from the colony of New Vitriol. But in The Chain are also those who have been touched ...

In all of those xianxia novels, no one ever wonders about the life of those super geniuses who find immortal ascension as easy as eating pie. This novel is a short story detailing the life of one of such geniuses. Are their lives really as simple as they seem in novels?  Disclaimer; This novel is en...

Adapted from a dream. In the northwest corner of the Greek peninsula, on the Ionian Sea, there was a beautiful country - the country of Corfu. Warning: it's a christendom theme story....

In a world of Goddesses and saints, faith and holy sites, a saint in a dire situation writes one, possibly final, letter to the person she held dearest....

This work is a fan fiction on the Hindu god Krishna. Written in first person, this is a retelling of Krishna's life. This story does not insult any religions. Cover credit to OVDC....

Anxious and apathetic, the godling Aquari locks himself away in a vault where he stays for an untold number of years, held captive by nothing but his own mind. Then, bit by bit, things happen to make Aquari break out of his self-made purgatory and learn about happiness and pain. This is an introspec...

In a world where suddenly it’s every man for himself. A young, popular boy from a prestigious high school had unknowingly triggered an influential man's child and had to recouped with his life.  In his last moments, as the heavy rain poured onto his bloodied face and the pain started to grow numb, h...

The Craton and her crew return to the Sol System, the original home of humanity.  For many of her crew, born far from the cradle of our species, it is a unique event, to see the world that nurtured us into existence.  For those from Earth, though, a harsher reality is known, as the history of our wo...

Without destination, I move through this human city, following only where that indescribable feeling leads. I follow it through the streets, bustling with people speaking their distinct dialect. It, like the palace ruins, is the only vestige of the Silla past that remain. Yet I cannot even pause to ...

In a world where the boundary between life and death blurs, "Book of the Undead" unfolds the haunting tale of Aloch, a warrior damned to roam the Earth for eternity. Upon his death, Aloch's soul is denied entry into the afterlife, tormented by the countless lives he took in his brutal existence. His...

Captain Ian Brooks, accused of failure to follow orders, must stand trial on the mighty Korolev Station, capital of humanity. This is no simple trial, but a battle in a political power struggle within which he is only a pawn.  Despite being aware of this, there is little he can do except try to surv...

A loose retelling of the story of Prometheus. They say that with the wheel and money the greatest thing man got was fire. The god we got to steal this funny red-orange burning wood or (pot) was tired of being comfortable alone and cried for cold men down below, and so he stole the warm-lit red ora...

The entire Nihilian Effect saga can be found on Amazon and KalSDavian.com A standalone short story set in the world of Nihilian Effect Ray works a boring, dead-end job, that is until a god shows up and invites Ray for a drink, with the intent to change his life ... and maybe start a war. The gods ha...

In a twisted version of the Old West, where Native American fables come to life, the land is teeming with blight and cessation. Skinwalkers, Bakwas, Urayuli, and even the dreaded Wendigo roam freely, constantly terrorizing humanity. In this unforgiving landscape, survival becomes the supreme dream, ...

A small group of aliens have begged the Sapient Union for aid, and the Union will answer. Faced with imminent destruction at the hand of a vicious warlord who has sworn to destroy them to the last being, Captain Brooks must maneuver carefully.   While he is empowered to negotiate and seek peace, the...

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