Fick Suck: Stories

Alternate Reality: In a world where W. lost the primaries because he wasn't far enough to the right, a new United States emerges under a more directed leadership. However, this is still an America where even a beaten down guy from Secaucus has a chance to regain his dreams. / (Reviews)

To study four years at an ancient seminary with the promise of a secure career in a turbulent kingdom was an unbelievable boon to Zuri, a kid from the docks. All of it was a lie, a terrible soul-crushing lie. The only choice was to run, to live to fight another day. Kids from the docks know how to fight. (Whatever you think the categories typically mean, they are not typical in this tale.)

In a post-apocalyptic world, Yakhir is an apprentice archivist with a seemingly bright future. However, his father is dead, possibly assassinated, his lover may be a spy and his sister is telling everyone how well endowed he is. The world is recovering from The Great Burn; but will Yakhir be around to enjoy its blossoming. / (Reviews)

In a far future, the great civilizations of the past are a dim memory. Taima is a warrior who is forced to travel the land in search of a new destiny. He fears little except for young women with whom he is interested. / (Reviews)

Stories of the Volentin Stellar Dynasty
Volentin #4 The Human-Vizz war is into its second decade. The Vizz are running amuck on the colonized planet Awanil in the equatorial jungles. Gavril, a ten year veteran of the Imperial Forces, is a sergeant in a mudball unit that hunts down the elusive enemy. His life was already miserable when royal Volentin appeared, making his life ever more complicated. If the Volentin doesn't kill him, the Vizz, the planetary predators, or the incompetent captain will.

The Library of Ibados is the greatest wonder in the world. All the nations of the world, their leaders, wizards, and religious orders seek out the repository where even the gods come to dwell at times. In charge of this mythical edifice are the Librarians, a secretive cadre with unending responsibilities and mysteries that haunt them. One young Librarian does not quite fit the mold.

Escaping the fall of his beloved city, the last master of his religious tradition, Borner, escapes through the forgotten depths. He flees to an unknowable future, haunted and hounded by his losses. The master becomes the student who becomes the prophet, inheriting a fate he could not forsake. / (Reviews)

A lost tale written by Tolkien’s second cousin, twice-removed. The heavy hand of soulless bloodletting purged the magic centuries ago. One young man’s flight from conscription could bring a return of the magic. Or he could just release a bunch of foul mouthed, oversexed magical beings on an unsuspecting populace. Satire may be involved.

Stories of the Volentin Stellar Dynasty
#2 Thirty years after their release from the Temperdis, the Families cruise the lanes of human space. They are not integrating well into the rest of human civilization. When a young engineer on a backwater station meets one of the Family, human civilization encounters the first wake of the pandemonium to come. / (Reviews)

Does anybody really like a wizard? Aden is a wizard and he is not even sure that he likes himself. People call him cantankerous and obstinate to his face, but he has his reasons. In a distant future, people think he is performing magic when he is just practicing "science." Alas, science is fading away, shifting from memory into forgetfulness as the world slips into a melancholy repose. Then the past rears its ugly head.