Military Stories

Simon Woodsman's adventures continue as he is sent to a Caribbean island to rescue a missing aid worker. Struggling his way through crazy revolutionaries, psychotic counter-revolutionaries, and a reunion with the mercenary Captain Hooke, will he find his way back home? What plan does Juliet have for Simon? This story continues the saga of the characters from Grim Fairy Tales.

A Tales from an Ex-Brat Story (1)
This short tale recounts my foray into the music scene, which likewise was short. It is a true story and only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Per ardua ad astra.

Paths not taken (4)
Orders are orders, even if they make little sense... at first

A Tales from an Ex-Brat Story (4)
Another blast from the past. Names have been changed to protect the guilty, and the embarrassed. This tale warns of the perils of overindulging in the good things of life, which may lead to under indulgence in other pleasurable activities. Moreover, although you should not look a gift horse in the mouth one should always be wary of leaping before looking.

The sexuality of a fourteen-year-old golden-haired squire with a gift for pleasing men is used in a ruse by a Crusader warrior chief in a fortress besieged by Saracens in the twelfth-century Levant to scheme his men's way through the Saracen lines and escape to the Mediterranean Sea.

A Swarm Cycle Story
Coming of age takes on a new meaning in the age of the Diaspora. Joe has some decisions to make about his widowed mother when they are caught in a pickup.

When a criminal gang kidnaps the woman Richard loves, they demand an impossible ransom. If the ransom is not paid they will gang rape and kill her.

Description: The day after his high school graduation he joined the Navy and rarely returned to visit his parents in his hometown. He found his High School girlfriend many years after their graduation and they renewed their relationship after they happened to meet again.

A Swarm Cycle Story
A game of deception is played out on Arc Dios because Sir Isaac needed a real-world cheat code.

A Tales from an Ex-Brat Story (6)
'The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle, the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.' Baron de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee. This tale examines this concept from the viewpoint of someone who seldom triumphed but always struggled.