In quarantined Colorado, where hundreds of thousands of people are dying from an unstoppable disease called the red death, insomniac Kate Cummings struggles to find the courage to live and to love. Her new love, investigative reporter Greg Pullman, is determined to discover who unleashed the deadly organism and why they did it, until the [...]
“We’re going to settle up later, Human,” Burdlit warned. “I envision you having a lovely funeral,” Boyd countered. They danced away from one another toward a neutral, less engaged position – side-by-side. To Burdlit who now stood on the right, this intruder seemed like a nonstop source of amusement. Only, Boyd was serious about wanting [...]
Olivia Vernon has thought a lot about the concept of soul-mates. All her life, she has been waiting for someone to appear, dreaming of him, and convinced if he exists at all he’s probably living in a different time zone. She wasn’t that far from the truth. Alden Scott was one of the lucky ones, or [...]
Benjamin Wetherby, Earl of Glastonbury and heir to the Marquessate of Eastleigh, has just received an urgent letter from home. His father is dying and he must return to England at once. Benjamin is a man bound by honor and duty, to both his country and his family. So, despite his reservations, he leaves his life in New [...]
Chapter One - GotchaIf Linc rated high-priced call girls on a scale of one to ten, Tawny Dell would score a twelve. Parked in the lot next to the public beach access, he trained his binoculars on the jaw-dropping beauty as two college-aged lifeguards carried her beach paraphernalia onto the beach. The third tugged a chaise [...]
This is neither the famous William Shakespeare play, that is not mentioned in the theatre. Not is it as you might think a ghost tale by Rudyard Kipling. This is the story of one of my stories, amongst my close friends we know it as THAT story. As I cannot think of it without cringing. From [...]
My Dearest Son, I thought about what you said all the way home. My son you are right where you are meant to be. You are not even one day behind. You are so much farther than so many young men your age. You have so much going for you my son. I am so [...]
The Deew might have been the offspring of another mother, but this project was still Janette’s baby. Whether her managerial experience or those metaphorical maternal instincts received the credit for the uneasy feeling that she now felt – was irrelevant. Something was not right, and this elevator ride could not end soon enough for the [...]
I had always been afraid of heights since falling from a school climbing frame when I was about 5 years old. Here I was in the worst case scenario I could have ever imagined. Beyond the realms of nightmares, trapped half on and half off a ski-lift heading up the mountain over the Rhine with [...]
This is a taster for the first short story in a long running series about a former glamour photographer called Mark Johnson, who turns demon hunter. The series is in its eighteenth story at the moment, and ties in with another series of mine starting with ‘Fight or flight.’ Again an interesting story goes with [...]
