Fiction Stories

Captain Scarlett, a veteran spaceman, fights to make space safe for commerce and travel. Along with his wife, Colonel Pandora Vermillion, they sweep pirates from the solar system. Captain Scarlett embarks on a brave plan to save the colonies of his native home, Mars. Starved for water, the colonies will die if his plan fails. He engineers a plan that may work, will his plan end in utter failure? Part of the Adventures of Captain Scarlett series.

Tragedy struck Mark at a young age, leaving him with a heart full of unspoken words and a future shrouded in uncertainty. Raised by his aunt, he navigated the choppy waters of adolescence and eventually found a semblance of normalcy in a mundane, predictable routine. College, part-time job – even his social life, an endless cycle of bad dates and even worse pickup lines - It wasn’t exciting, but it was safe. Familiar. But fate, it seems, had other plans.

It is the 12th century, and the Holy Roman Empire stands on the edge of turmoil. Frederick of Hohenstaufen, newly elected King of the Romans and destined to become Emperor, rides toward Rome beneath the weight of growing unrest. On his way to Rome Frederick stops at the Castle of Trier for food and and rest. While there, he learns of the trial of a young squire accused of defying the Church itself, one Johannes Braun. A young man King Frederick learns to depend on if he is to become Emperor.

A nobleman's bastard becomes a thief taker and moves into a new city that has lots of thieves.

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.