Fiction Stories

Only a world war could keep them apart.

A volume in the Earthbound Series
Volume V of the Earthbound Series: Nykkyo is called back to his homeworld for an assignment, this time a diplomatic mission for which he will be interpreter. He and Andra travel to the colony planet Varada, one that severed ties with the Floran hegemony millennia ago. That world now desires re-unification. However, Nyk and Andra discover there are some very long strings attached as well as some nefarious activity that could land them both in prison. [17 chapters]

This is a sequel to Detoxing, and runs to 31 chapters. The family expands.

I was a widowed thirty-something loner, living by myself in a backwoods cabin, when I witnessed a woman die of a drug overdose in front of me in the supermarket. Then I felt a small hand insert itself into mine.

A spirited discussion in a college Sociology class leads to a life changing bet for a young couple. Their story includes strife, hard work and romance.

A Naomi's Journal Story
At the county fair Naomi and Nils have great fun, and what could be more fun at the end of a perfect day at the fair than to be stuck at the top of the Ferris wheel? Illustrated.

King Minos tasks the hero Leandros with slaying a terrible beast that lurks in the depths of an inescapable labyrinth beneath the island of Crete, but all is not as it seems, and the King is hiding a dark secret that could cost him the throne.

Some stories are written to explain the world. Others are written to remind us what it feels like to live in it. This is not a story about history, or war, or even time—though all of those pass quietly through its pages. It is a story about the small promises we make to ourselves when we are young, and the surprising ways life asks us to keep them. It is about love that grows before it announces itself. About courage that speaks softly.

The priest Meritamun spends his days performing religious duties and maintaining the temple in which he lives, content in a humble life serving the Gods. His routine is turned on its head when he receives a summons from Anput – the living Goddess of death, and the consort of Anubis. He has been chosen to become her personal attendant, but why, he cannot say. His new role will require him to unlearn many of his assumptions about the Gods, and to open himself up to serving his deity in new ways.