Enter a world where Humanity and her mutant offspring, the Dark Edge, live side by side, separated only by an elaborate conspiracy to keep the Dark Edge secret known simply as the Shield. A conspiracy that's about to fall as a group of psionics called the Brotherhood of Advanced Intellects plots to destroy mundane Humanity and supplant them with a super race of their own! Join Mordecai, a Lone Gunman, a powerful psionic tasked with preserving the Shield, Ingamon Lash, his vampire companion, and Tragedy McMaster, a human detective as they struggle to stop the Brotherhood from launching an all out war between Humanity and the Dark Edge.

Journey into a future a hundred years from now where the lost children of Earth's distant past come back to ask Humanity's help in finding a magical artifact before the Children of Chaos tear the Peace of the Dragons apart!

Blunt Instrument, the Hand of Gamon, was one of the most accomplished and successful hitmen in Hell, specializing in assassinating other Dark Princes at his master's behest. Controlled by Gamon's will, he was the perfect killing machine in his master's name. But when he wakes one day to find his master dead and himself free instead of dead as well, he begins a quest to find out how and why. And woe be to those foolish enough to get in his way! A/N: This is an attempt at having a horror and anti-hero themed story. I'll continue it if there's enough interest.

Koden Gaal was a sapient on a mission. He and his team of security specialists at Moonsteel Security, had been hired by the biggest and most powerful government in the Centarus Arm, the Au'six, to retrieve a stolen Progenitor artifact. But after watching his contact assassinated in front of him and learning the Au'six were blaming Moonsteel, he had to find the artifact and prove their innocence before the entire Arm came looking for him! And to make matters a wee bit complicated, news of the artifact's existence had triggered war between the five most powerful governments in the sector, including the Au'six. Can Koden and Moonsteel find the missing tech before all hell breaks loose?

For Mordecai, it was another node hunt, an investigation into why Probability had suddenly twisted in on itself to threaten the future. He had run down hundreds in his tenure as a Lone Gunman. So what was so special about this one? And why were the other two major players in the Dark Edge involved? Did it have something to do with a new enemy intent on rewriting the whole of Humanity's history in a single night? Frantically Mordecai searches for answers as he seeks to unravel the twisted truth before the Dark Edge finds itself on the brink of an all-consuming race war! The Pub's Sci-Fi Smackdown, Round Four - Superhuman Sci-Fi Theme, using Quote group #2, and Pix #1 and #2

In his lust for power, Lord Brennan of Coventry Port has his agents scouring the realm for pre-Burning relics. And in the catacombs beneath Coventry's cathedral, his archivist works frantically to find the key to unlocking their secrets. Will those secrets bring Brennan the power he seeks? SFSD Round 1 Candlepunk theme, using pictures 2, 3, 7, & 8

After watching his wife and three children killed before his eyes, Vrendase, a drow rune weaver, vows his revenge. But, after getting captured and thrust into the heart of the war between the high elves and the Legion of Scales, will he die before he gets it? Fantasy Smackdown, Round 1 Entry - in the Wrench group, using pictures 1, 3, 7 and 8

A collection of short stories aimed at entertaining, astounding and illustrating the various types of fantasy genres as entries in Magical_Realm's Fantasy Smackdown, ver 2.0

A collection of science fiction short stories written for Smackdowns or inclusion in Tevun-Krus, Oorah's monthly sci-fi e-zine. I just wanted to let you guys have access to them, since most of these stories end up in some contest anthology somewhere, getting dusty. Hope you enjoy them. If you see text high-lighted, that was done deliberately for the sake of a contest.

The Solavar and the Mardish; two ancient and corrupt elvish empires tottering towards a final, apocalyptic end war known in prophecy as the T'sar; the War of the Leaf. That same prophecy declared that only they who hold the Sword of Blood will emerge victorious and avoid total annihilation. And so they search for the ultimate weapon so the final war can start. The catch? The ultimate weapon is member of the fledgling human race! Can the human pirate Tev Bloodsword discover his destiny and save his own people before the world is consume by the War of the Leaf? *cover art by Ferretlp, part of the D A N G E R D A Y S I N C. cover art team