Ma/Fa Stories

A Dryad Story
Many will tell you of the mystical quality of trees. Trees, individually and collectively, often have a magical ability to confer calm and refreshment. Return to the Woodland Folk as outsiders encounter them...

I become a nude model for a professional photographer. / (Reviews)

A secret society that manipulates innocent white couples. Their influences reach deep into the highest society. A book about a couple who unwillingly became their victim.

A Swarm Cycle Story
A man reviewing the events and tragedies that take him from Earth as a concubine and set him down in a new life on aother world.

Lisbon, 1943. The last neutral capital in Europe, where tungsten buys both sides and every café hides a courier. Calvin Brennan files for the Chicago Tribune and quietly works for the OSS. Then he meets Vera at the Casino do Estoril—Polish, beautiful, and held on a leash he can't yet see. She says she's been sent to work him. He believes her. The only way out runs through a man Berlin wants kept breathing. A twelve-chapter serial: espionage, slow-burn romance, and gallows wit.

A short tale very loosely based on a personal encounter I had myself in that fair city one summer, about ten or fifteen years ago; okay maybe a little longer. Only my encounter had a completely different outcome.

A Chinese-American telepath recounts experiences between 1985 to 2010 as a citizen of a secretive society of similarly gifted individuals. Readers of Gould's "Jumper" and Cormier's "Fade" will encounter some familiar names and faces. Please note the codes apply to different chapters in the story.