Big circus tents. A massive, festive, restless crowd moving in a multitude of currents past booth after booth of cheap games, cheap prizes, cheap thrills. Towering over the tents, like a gigantic metal monolith, a gigantic Ferris Wheel. Lit up so brightly surely the denizens living on Mars could see it with the naked eye. People laughing. [...]
As a father, what would you do if your wife died in the twin towers (9-11), and, ten years later, your daughter was listed as having been killed in a training accident in boot camp but you believed she was actually still alive?
Not much farther. She quickened her pace using the intramural softball field’s chain link fence to guide her to the woods directly beyond. The light over the equipment shed fifty feet behind did not reach this far, and the moon was new, little more than a sliver.
The four kids stood around looking down at it. “I don’t think we should tell anyone,” David said. He was the oldest of the group, a virtual adult at ten. “We have to,” his brother Ian insisted. “They’ll think we did it,” he warned. “We could go to jail.” The third boy, Nick, youngest of [...]
This is an excerpt from the end of the first chapter of the first book in The Greater Than Riches series. …Earlier that day, Detective Frank Bianchi had arrived at the waterfront as dawn was painting the sky pink over the eastern harbor. He stood on the dock holding a tray of coffee cups that attracted [...]
One minute Nick was ahead of the Porsche—amazing, considering his car wasn’t anywhere near as fast—and the next, the jogger crossed in front of him. They’d dragged from the light and were coming off the curve by the park when the jogger trotted out onto the road. Three in the morning—and there’s a jogger crossing [...]
A Chapter from “After 2012″ Early one morning when a fog began to evaporate revealing ever more detail in the scene below, Diane crouched by a large tree at the crest of a hill and strained her eyes for any movement in the thinning mist. Their water had run out and she could just see [...]
A Chapter from “After 2012″ The greatest threat of 2012 was not an astrological alignment, solar flares or a geological catastrophe. Instead, it was man himself. Global nuclear war, instigated by religious fanatical sociopaths, left only scattered pockets of desperate refugees and roaming gangs of thugs. The great societies of the world had fulfilled their [...]
