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.

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?

A story in the The Teen Dreams Universe Universe
The further adventures of David and the ups and downs of his love life. It would help if you had already read books one and two, since this is a saga rather than a series.

Peg has been dancing around holes her whole life, and not those in the sidewalk she plays on. Faced with danger, she ventures inside the very thing she fears most, discovering complexities she can't comprehend. As the dangers mount, and her home becomes unsafe, will the holes in her life make her whole, provide an escape, or consume everything? Are they a blessing, a curse, or a sign of imminent mental illness?

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.

Andi is a doctor who gets stuck in a snowstorm and meets Paul, a wealthy recluse who rescues her and her twin daughters. They fall in love and get married on Christmas Eve, then go on a honeymoon cruise with their family and friends. Along the way, they face challenges such as Lucy's trauma from working in a violent ER, Andi's criminal ex husband, and Paul plans to open a veterans clinic. This is Book 2 of Book 5 in the Andi's Dream series.