Finn Sinclair: Stories

If you are going to summon a djinn, then you had better get the words correct, foolish mortal. Chad is toast, now what?

Over 700 years ago, the Black Plague killed over 50% of the populations it touched from China to India and on to Greenland. This is Stefan's tale of his travels through the plague lands of a fictional kingdom.

Obese, anxious, obsessive, and clear-eyed about his prospects as a bureaucrat in a crumbling galactic empire, Pyotr flees in hope of finding a better life. Perhaps his misery is the empire instead of him. Whatever the case, he will be given the opportunity to learn the answer.

A disenchanted man strikes an unearthly bargain, which sends him skittering down old and new paths. Everything he has known becomes all he never understood. Will he learn to see in time to survive?

When a cranky young veteran of the repulsed brutal invasion is found and returned to the Court of the Crimson King, he is shocked by the poor state of the kingdom. North is dragooned into the reigning queen’s retinue, a position fraught with politics, intrigue, magic, and hints of destiny. The Court is an intricate dance that one must master or else disappear into oblivion. Based loosely on the song of the same title by King Crimson. Winner 2026 Clitorides

Doober's young life is almost a caricature of life on the bayou with women, beer, and a truck. In an instant, all of it is taken away, plunging him into the abyss of profound mourning. Finding life and the will to live again is an incredible human feat.

Stories of the Volentin Stellar Dynasty
#3 The conclusion of the Benni Cycle. Another illegitimate bastard collides with the Families of the Temperdis. Qi could become part of the destiny of the Volentin family if they live long enough.

A young boy of ten loses his parents, leaving him at the mercy of Child Protective Services. When he expects the worst, a legitimate foundation swoops in, offering him a new family and a chance to regain his future, perhaps even a better one. Nothing is free in this world though, and no foundation or corporation is completely benevolent, especially one that holds lucrative patents in nanotech.

A wannabe romance writer who has a popular advice column during the end times, seeks love and affirmation without the meddling of an overly involved Artificial Intelligence.

For three years the hunter has traveled the world seeking the predators that feed on humans. How long will his luck hold?