Crime Stories

Two girls endure middle school and high school. Their peers give them grief over their looks: they are two red heads in an ocean of black hair. One has no mother, the other's mother is a punitive monster. Sometimes, your hopes for the future depend on that one friend who can understand you and be your rock in the face of cruelty, even violence. This is a short story, a quick read.

In the stateless territory of Acadiana, trust is the law of the land. Maxim Galloway is a private intelligence agent who finds himself harboring a thief on the run, banking executive Joseph Wells. The man he stole from is out for blood, and a tactical team is closing in for the capture. Armed only with his wits and a tech-enhanced intuition, Galloway must decide if he will allow vigilante justice to destroy the fragile social order, or risk his life to save a desperate outlaw.

A Lexi's Investigations Story (11)
Recent college grad Lexi is proud to be selected for jury duty. But why do the lawyers need to know about her experience with BDSM and exhibitionism?

Annie wasn't naïve when she followed Tom to Serbia, but perhaps a little innocent. It was 1997, Communism had collapsed, and the Balkan Wars appeared over. It seemed the perfect time for a young couple to make their fortune, explore the world, and leave past disappointments behind. But Belgrade could be cruel to foreigners, and in the end, Annie's innocence would fall as its victim. Yet, she learned, the city had gifts had to offer too - gifts that could prove just as intense as its dangers...

A Swarm Cycle Story
Set in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Cycle Universe; even with the pending Sa'arm invasion, Earth's elite are bent on achieving their own agenda--reducing the number of humans to a manageable level of 250 million. T. E. Lawrence is tasked with disruption of their depopulation program.

She returned when I least expected it.

Executioner decides the justice system isn't working at it's full potential to send him the condemned. He sets out to deliver his own justice in the manner he knows best.

A man is sent to prison. Surprisingly, he finds his true self.