Fiction Stories

A story in the The Fading Stars Universe
Some choices are easy. Either face fifteen years in an off-world prison for trying to steal a military battlecruiser or join a crew of interstellar fixers for a hazardous mission. Rembrandt chose the latter and finds much more than he bargained for.

Halloween 2019
Anne Evans is a Wiccan who works as a nurse in a hospice. Peter Morgan, a coma patient, comes under her care. She senses that he responds to her presence. Her special treatments finally bear fruit (pun intended) in the night of Samhain. Winner of the 2019 Halloween Writing Contest.

Lucy Draven has an emptiness inside her after losing her husband. When she doesn't think that void can ever be filled along comes Roman Marks, a man that seems to possess the qualities of her late husband.

Woman on vacation finds danger and romance.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
Splashdown Remastered: Stranded in an alien jungle during a botched mission, a plucky shuttle pilot and a fierce alien warrior must learn to overcome their differences if they want to survive their ordeal. (This story has been re-edited and improved to bring it up to my current standards.) Housecat: Zhari and McGregor take some much deserved shore leave, and the wily pilot takes full advantage of his dominant position over the alien to explore the limits of her submissive nature.

A man loses his family and when he recovers he takes his sister away to find somwhere else to live. Strange things happen, but just how much should he worry about them? Mystery may be debatable and there are only references to sex

In an alternate universe where American society has a well-defined and structured class system, someone still needs to teach the new heir apparent how to behave like royalty. And who better to mentor a royal than a servant? / (Reviews)

A Conversations Story
A simple high-school teacher is cheated on by his wife. A simple story that happens every day somewhere in the world. But what do you tell those around you about what happened and why? And how do you turn the experience into something of value to others?

Clarissa and Priscilla are the best of friends, and that is where it would have stayed until one fateful night intervenes. What the two learn about one another will change what they thought of each other. Will it be for the good or the bad though?

The life and times of Joel Timmins, an Iowa transplant in Oregon. He does meet the most interesting people, including young ladies.