Allan Joyal: Stories

A young man thinks back on his college romances and the heartbreak he suffered.

A Swarm Cycle Story
On the day that the President announced that aliens had approached humanity about fighting another alien race, Mark Parker was a eighth grade student worried more about surviving the jungle that was his school than going to war. Little could he realize just how much his life and the lives of his friends would change as he tried to protect those close to him from what was coming.

Dark tale of a man when his wife decides that she can have wholesale affairs and he won't divorce her because of the children, and his fight to maintain his dignity

A young man makes a heartbreaking discovery and wanders far from home searching for redemption.

A Swarm Cycle Story
New Recruit to the Confederacy keeps a journal documenting his own downfall.

A Swarm Cycle Story
As the battle against the Sa'arm heats up in Borneo District new developments threaten the dearly held tranquility for the inhabitants of Ishtar

A Swarm Cycle Story
Willow knew that she might never see her brother again the day the marines visited her family home to say he had been selected as a concubine. Imagine her surprise when the letter arrived from her brother. Her reply and their subsequent correspondence would see both of their lives change in ways neither could have predicted only a few years before.

A Swarm Cycle Story
A man reviewing the events and tragedies that take him from Earth as a concubine and set him down in a new life on aother world.

A Swarm Cycle Story
One of the Confederation's investigators gets asked to find out who set up Ishtar.

A man reflects on his adventures in college and how they changed his life