After discovering two aliens trying to milk a cow in his Grandfather's barn, fourteen year old Luke Summers is abducted. Scared out of his wits, he soon discovers that the aliens, Simon and Leonidas, aren't planning to probe him... huge relief. Instead, after injecting Luke with nano-translators so he can understand t...
#86 in Short Story (7/11/15) Remember your "first time?" Well, I wish I could forget mine. As a Freshman in college, I met Carrie and we fell in love. We thought we were the perfect couple. We thought we would always be together. But after we decided to consummate our relationship, it all came crashing down. Bitternes...
READ my SHORTS! ('cos eating them isn't very tasty) - A collection of very short stories, micro-fiction, one-shots, drabbles, flash-fiction and other random stuff. Call 'em what you will, they're bite size little morsels from the brain of me. Crossing all genres, and of lengths up to about 1000 words.
An Amazon Breakthrough Novel Quarterfinalist, Death by Haggis is a tongue in cheek detective novel inspired by the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the "opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels." Until the day Jane Hamchester walked into his squalid office, the highlight of Detective Sam Barlow's life ha...
By accident rather than design, Trueth - one of the last European witches - finds herself in an ancient Egyptian civilisation. It isn't quite what she has expected - for one thing this place is as full of magic as it is lacking in decent showers. Instead, there is evil lurking just below the surface of the Nile. T...
A comic apocalyptic sci-fi romp. The zombie apocalypse has come and gone, the world has ended, humanity has crumbled... Nobody told the aliens. Alien brains have some interesting side effects on the ravenous undead. Just ask zombie Li, who wakes up after a quick bite. The world is a wasteland, she's a walking corps...
Seven minutes can change your life. That's how long it took for Georgie's parents to go from alive to dead, but falling in love happens in the blink of an eye. Georgie has moved to a new town in a new state to live with her Aunt. Her home is gone. Her family is gone. Her old life and identity are gone. Georgie feels...
In the fall of 2007, a quirky, sensitive girl named Hannah had a crush on an insensitive jerk. And I was her father. In the summer of 1984, a quirky, sensitive girl named Emily had a crush on an insensitive jerk. And I was that jerk. Loosely based on a true story (well, several, actually) "The Idiot Who Ran Into A Tr...
Oscar Tweed paid good money to have his fancy London butler shipped all the way to Boston just to make the perfect cup of tea. The butler, Cyril Crutchley, doesn't even last a day! In a freak accident, he falls to his death and becomes a ghost. The twisted Oscar Tweed uses dark magic to bind the butler forever to the...
This is the story of a caveman but it is also the story of an executive. They occur a million years apart but they are the same story. Only the circumstances of their environment is different. These two have a similar beginning in life but they waste the opportunities they were born with. Can they get by in this worl...
It has been 15 years since Mammy, the baby mammoth, followed Chief Oleg and his party of women man-hunters home. Mammy is reaching maturity just like Ankita the little girl who on that day put her arms around Mammy's neck welcoming her to the tribe and forming an unbreakable bond. Chip, Bowen and the other three boys...
Get out your popcorn, tourists beware, here comes a paranormal adventure with a historical twist, set in Egypt--and Britain. From Chapter 29 'Darkness': 'Did I just try to dive into that goo to get at a dead guy?' Trueth asked. Define dead,' Metjen said with a half-smile. He muttered something and touched Trueth...
Pirates! Rum! Pirates! More rum! Naked pirates! What would it be like to find yourself among the scurvy dogs of a dread pirate crew? Follow our hero in a rum soaked adventure from the slums of Bristol to English Tangier. Will there be romance? Will there be danger, treasure or betrayal? Sail on the next tide to f...