Military Stories

A Swarm Cycle Story
This is not a complete story, it is merely a couple of scenes from the end of the "Independent Command" storyline. I have no intention of ever turning this into a novel; it is merely a response to a question on the Swarm author's list about how to respond to a disaster in that universe

After Jason loses his mother to cancer, he decides to join the army. Returning home two years later, he receives a letter from his father's solicitor. The man who left his mother twenty years ago.

After failing to defend a village from a band of roving Orcs, Bevan finds himself the only survivor of the battle. Taken prisoner by their capricious leader for reasons unknown to him, his fate becomes unclear, as her intentions become ever more confusing.

An SAS Story
When a dirty job needs to be done, we are more than happy to do it!

Some parts of basic training, Gia Mazzini soon discovered, didn't appear on the posted schedule.

Three women struggle to live in a dystopian war-ravaged future where the world’s female population has been decimated by a pandemic. The few remaining females are rounded up and made to serve in ‘breeding chambers’ to produce children. With very few females available to meet the desires of men a breed of transgender women known as Comfort Girls takes their place. But all is not as it seems and an anti-establishment revolutionary suspect they know why and they intend to do something about it.

This is the story of John Edwards, a fighter pilot in WW1, his combat experiences, and his romance with Connie Butler, a Red Cross worker. Most of the story involves a little-known, but very important, battle against the German observation balloons. John's favorite method of attack came from my imagination, but it could have worked and made a difference in the war. Every infantryman in WW1 had nothing but praise for the guts of the balloon busters.

A Swarm Cycle Story
How do you fight an 800 pound gorilla?