"Computers don't think, all they can do is calculate. But when does calculation become thinking?" That's is the question keypuncher Jack Heyward keeps asking himself when the system he's using suddenly starts talking back. But Jack has more problems; this system is an especially sensitive one, and he's suspected of a major security breach. And even if he, his new computer friend and his girlfriend can elude the massive manhunt, a new and more deadly peril awaits.
Minara is an ex solider turned bounty hunter earning a living catching human survivors from the Human, Grojan war. She stumbles across a large enemy fleet and is shot down. She crashes on a primitive planet where Minara quickly establishes herself as a bodyguard to a princess of a small kingdom. Unbeknown to her a powerful general from a rival kingdom is a genetically modified human. By chance and political events, they meet and sparks fly.
A Swarm Cycle Story
On the day that the President announced that aliens had approached humanity about fighting another alien race, Mark Parker was a eighth grade student worried more about surviving the jungle that was his school than going to war. Little could he realize just how much his life and the lives of his friends would change as he tried to protect those close to him from what was coming. / (Reviews)
Hey there, Winter Jennings reporting for duty. This little short story is a snapshot of an intriguing week. One specific period of time without the love of my life — Vanessa Henderson — who was attending a culinary conference in Mexico. But I was with the love of my life — 16-year-old Walker Jennings — a typical and perpetually-aroused relative of mine. Okay, son. While the cat’s away …
A story in the Flint Murdock Universe
A love story, in a way. Flint Murdock, a large man, rode into Little River, Territory of Montana, in 1887. He hired on as the peacemaker for the whorehouse in the Bighorn Hotel and Saloon. As he began to earn the respect of the sporting ladies, the local power brokers - saloon, sawmill, copper mine - were pleased with the relative peace that he imposed. Then, hired gun-hands begin drifting into town. Including two cashiered soldiers from Murdock's Cavalry days at Fort Laramie. / (Reviews)
Bob thought triple dating would keep his kids from exploring too much, sexually. And it worked well the first five or six times they all went on dates together in the family van. But then it didn't work and Bob felt like they all needed to be taught just how strong the sexual urge can be. So he decided to teach them. The problem was, he'd had too much Scotch on an empty stomach and things got kind of out of control.
A Cold War and before Story Seventy-year-old Will Johnstone dozes off one afternoon, half a glass of red wine beside him. He wakes in 1962 crouched beside a railway line, in his twelve-year-old body.
Will finds unexpected friends and becomes involved in Cold War events
A Dulcie Story Helen has been 'traded in for a younger model'. A chance encounter in a diner with a man young enough to be her son changes her life. This story is the result of a suggestion from a reader that I should reverse my usual pattern!
John, feeling smothered by a rich wife, is finally divorced. This gives him a chance to spread his wings and after a couple of years, gets custody of his son. A new woman with two little girls become part of his life. This is the story of his family and his life over the next ten years.