Science Fiction Stories

A Story in the Naked In School Universe
They knew it was coming: they knew they'd get called. It was the only thing they predicted accurately. Updated August 31, 2007.

A Swarm Cycle Story
Sequel to "Thinking Outside the Box"

World War III was fought in outer space. It was over in an hour and no one won. Except Jack Adams, who was the only male of the species not caught in the viral fallout of the war that sterilized all the men on earth. Jack was the orbiting satellite repairman who inadvertently triggered the war. Now every woman in the world wants one of Jack Adams' Apples. / (Reviews)

In the 22nd century, the solar system has been explored and colonized. The nations of Earth are trapped in a deadly game of colony and empire - a game overset when an FTL experiment on the Saturnian moon of Janus rips a portal between our solar system...and somewhere else. What lays on the far side of the portal shall change the future of human history. But will it spell the end for us all? Or the beginning of a new golden age? Only time will tell.

Jim Roberts is offered a choice he can't refuse. He becomes an agent for a far-future organization that wants to keep the Confederates from winning the Civil War and precipitating an apocalypse. This is the story of Jim's solution to the problem. 7 chapters.

From a dim and dark past a gift of life is given as I lay dying. From that gift came a change to my life but also to the one that gave it. Year after year, decade after decade, century after century, millennium after millennium time past. We did not watch our family from the darkness but taught them about us. Now I was on a world filled with Sidhe searching for the one that gave me the gift, what I find is treachery and a lost secret.

What would you do to obtain perfection? Would you go to any lengths to do so?

Sometimes your turn is up. There's nothing you can do about it. All that matters now is to make it count.

Following in my father's foot steps was something I dreamed of and worked hard to do. He was the duke's sheriff and I became a deputy. My first real lesson came when a constable captain does not read or understand a mission to raid a drug lab. After that I find a link to a serial killer that has been hunting unchecked. Now every constable and deputy sheriff on the planet is looking for him while he hunts his next victim.