Science Fantasy Stories

Survival is as much luck as anything else. Also having an indomitable will to live is important. There are some things you just can’t prepare for.

A recurring theme of mine is that of a young woman who doesn't want to rule, but is in the line of succession. Jane S'Harris was minding her business helping with her older sister's wedding dress when dastards attacked the palace. This is the story of her escape.

Roy was a gamer. Now, he's prey. ​After a fatal accident transports his soul from modern Earth, Roy wakes up in the body of a 13-year-old peasant boy in a world that’s anything but a game. This is a grim, war-torn land where horrifying monsters stalk the countryside, magic is a bloody reality, and humanity is often more monstrous than the beasts. ​He is weak. He is alone. But he is not without help. A familiar, game-like interface only he can see becomes his lifeline. System Interface Booting.. / (Reviews)

A young man is transported to a new world as the Dark Lord, witness his rise from an ordinary college student to a being capable of causing the greatest evil.

George Rice, a dying, emotionally detached scientist who plans to stage his own accidental death after losing his wife and receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis. At the brink of suicide, he is intercepted by a higher being named Alama, who offers him a chance to “right a terrible wrong.” George accepts and dies—only to be reborn into another world and another body.

Three young people represent Earth in a battle with our powerful ancestors who seeded us and terraformed Earth. It is a battle against people who believe Earth has lost its way, and they intend to destroy Earth if it does not comply. They are so far ahead of us that they are Godlike but are biased and irrational and prepared to inflict pain without compunction.

A story in the Axeman Universe
The second in a continuing series about how the Missile came to be the man we all know.

A fledgling magician seeks the help of a powerful Indian Shaman to gain justice and revenge.

A story in the Axeman Universe
Three days before my 16th birthday, I was rolling over in bed when my hand hit something. Hard. Hard enough to cut the skin and make a mess. Whatever it was, was gone before I opened my eyes, though, so I had no idea what it was.

She came to him the way wild things do — slowly, carefully, leaving gifts he didn't yet understand. For weeks, Michael found tokens at the edge of his orchard: a bronze feather, smooth stones, berries arranged like offerings. He assumed it was nothing. He was wrong. Missy had been watching the man who cared for broken things. She had kits on the way and winter closing in, and she had chosen him. Now she just had to trust him enough to knock.