Science Fiction Stories

American retirees, Henry and Bella Wheeler decide to take a vacation in the UK. They rent a holiday cottage in a picturesque part of the West Country. All goes well until Henry gets lost in a mist while exploring the coastline. An old lady directs him to an inn where he is obliged to stay for the night. Henry discovers that things are not quite as they seem.

In the not-so-far future, an AI Engine struggles with its own existence, while a famous Law Master finally gets his heart's desire.

David left me.

A Swarm Cycle Story
All in grey, all in grey I wonder where they'll lay All those nuns with nowhere to pray The Civil Service does some unofficial recruiting back on Earth.

A Slave Girl Story (7)
William, the Royal Executioner, finds Meadow on the road, beaten and abused. He takes care of her and eventually must decide what to do about her. The Queen helps him decide. This is story six in the Slave Girl series.

A The Machine Story (2)
Jack Adams and Susan Pulse have escaped using Blythe's machine only to find themselves in another world - what will happen now?

A Story in the The Anomaly Universe
Paul had never believed that he could qualiify for passage aboard the Interplanetary Space Ship Intrepid on its mission across the Kuiper Belt to investigate the unknown entity known as the Anomaly that lies beyond the edge of the Solar System. Neither has anyone who has ever met him. But notwithstanding his evident unsuitability, Paul and his new wife Beatrice are passengers on a voyage beyond the solar ecliptic in the company of the Solar System's most expert scientists.

A Story in the The Anomaly Universe
The voyage of the Space Ship Intrepid is approaching its end. Will the nature of the Anomaly at last reveal itself? This is a question of paramount importance to Vashti and Beatrice, and in which there is no greater stake. For Captain Kerensky, the success of the mission is measured more by the well-being of the Intrepid's crew and passengers. Whereas Paul remains blissfully ignorant and unaware of almost everything around him and expects to play no part in the success of the mission.

A Swarm Cycle Story
The inspiration for this short story was an 80's Country song by Dan Seals and a story by Thinking Horndog, the creator of The Swarm Cycle. If you have not read his story, 'Buying Wholesale', go ahead and do that and you will see where this story fits. It's just a vignette inside a larger canvas. This was never intended as a stand-alone story.