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 Hu...
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 hims...
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's...
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 som...
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 th...
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, us...
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, th...
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 th...
They buried him with a broken heart, unable to go on after his wife of 50 years passed away from cancer. Then they dug him up 300 years later, gave him a new body, new abilities and made him fight in a war to defeat the Velkin, a race of terrible alien invaders. He helped the Risen destroy the Velkin armies, defeat t...
Two of the Weapons of Power have been found, but their Wielders are lost. Tjor'riin and their shadow kin assault the mortal nations of Ramnor and the Kaal Eran demons are making forays against the southern lands of the Elves. The Last Battle looms on the horizon and the Wielders, along with their allies, are nowhere c...
Imagine living a full life, dying months after your beloved wife passes and being buried. Only to wake up 300 years later, called out of the grave to fight a final war against an alien invasion. Join Max Niekro, formerly living and now Risen as he deals with this reality as the forces of Earth, both living and dead...
Odashen. Kamdemahn. Giant's Bane. Oldest One. On the worlds of the Avatar Alliance I am called many names and I am considered many things. Some see me as a holy warrior with a purpose so powerful, not even Death can stop me. Others think me a tormented wanderer, driven mad by a horrible fate and left to travel the wa...
Jared Turcott is a child of two Realities. In the one he knows, he is the son of an infamous lawyer and his socialite wife, plagued by mental illness and doubt. And in the other, the one he doesn't know, he is the potential Lord of an Eternal Beast, creatures of power and magic that fight to keep the fabric of Reality...
Eleven years after the events in Elvenfast and Tal Morun, the world of Ramnor is caught in the grip of the Diaspora: a season of turmoil and chaos marking the beginning of the Ascendance, the last stage of the Norak Utterance, a prophecy detailing the end of all things. Now young men, the Sons of Ironstorm begin to le...
Welcome to the twin worlds of Ramnor and Rimnor: lush, beautiful, and magical. They are also the center of the Maker's universe, the cornerstone on which all of Creation is built. If one, or both are destroyed, then Creation itself will begin to unravel. And destruction of those worlds is the goal of the Lords of the...
Talemon, the greatest of the human kingdoms on Ramnor, has fallen to the power-hungry dark druid, Mern. Chaos reigns on the Hammer Peninsula and the Kaal Eran demons gather in the far south in preparation to burn their way north. Yet, in the face of the Return, the Sons of Ironstorm continue their quest to fulfill the...
Version Two and the Risen ground forces are closing in completing the first wave of implantations. But the Collector continues to loom dangerously close even as the K'ethik campaign finally gets wins against the ravenous k'ethic clouds. Desperate plans are put into place by both campaigns, but will they have the power...
Born to the Night, the grim and powerful vampire Ingamon Lash is Qos Viran, Special Forces for the Clans of the Night, the ancient vampire civilization living in the shadows of the human world on the Dark Edge. Honorable and determined, he had lived a life of service to the clans and their leaders, the Council of the...
The War of Domination is over, fought thousands of years in the past. And the world has recovered from its fallout, the Time of Fire, which scorched the land and seared the sky. But those imprisoned at the end of the war, the Fire Lords, are breaking free once more, intent on starting a new War to end all Wars for dom...
Max Niekro, the undead juggernaut that brought the Risen into space to war against Earth's enemies, is gone. Left behind are the tattered remnants of the once-mighty force that defeated the Velkin and brought the Vanguard of the Blood to its knees, staring across the Abyss at two old foes that have raised their heads...
The Firelords continue to grow in power, casting a dark shadow over the lands of Humanity as they prepare to launch a second War of Domination to take control of Earth once and for all. Only the prophecy of Zanthos Brel, first uttered as the world burned from the original War of Domination gives the mortal peoples of...
"The lost Stones have appeared in the sky. My hope rests in them, for they will wipe the world clean as the sun rises." A dying land. A dwindling magic. A goddess filled with the worst of humanity. The Seven Deities remain silent, so the Eighth will fight in their stead. Two brothers, raised to free their people. A y...
HEROES AREN'T BORN - THEY'RE FORGED. ☆Now available in paperback and ebook format! Search "Iron Empire" on Amazon!☆ Armageddon has come and gone, but the Iron War rages on. Thirty years after a devastating nuclear war swept the globe, society has been reborn in the image of the corporations that now rule the thriving...
A Military project designed to send two soldiers one hundred years into the future appears to be going according to plan... until they see what has become of Humanity when they get there. McMillan and Carter must make decisions that could set Humanity into an everlasting loop of destruction... or one that could free i...
The Elfborn have been scattered. Naneen, Max, and Ollie head north to Scandia with the Nord in their search for the hidden lands of the Shae. Heather, Kira, Brice, Jase and Gillian go with Sister Eje to Romis. And Garrett finds himself with an old companion as they are swept up in the Ristusian Quest to free the Ho...
Henry Mackay and his dog regularly walk alongside an ancient convent wall. Today, as he passes the green door, he glances at its peeling paint. Moments later he stops dead in his tracks. He returns to the spot, and all he sees is an ivy-covered wall. The door has vanished! He unwittingly embarks on an exciting trail...
Twelve-year-old Carmen has a secret: she can talk to her cat Grim. But the powerful Brotherhood has banned pets, and the penalty is death. Ward is the most wanted boy in the world. The only thing standing between him and the hangman's noose is master criminal Saint Nick. In exchange for Nick's protection, Ward must fi...
*HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 ACTION, THRILLER; #2 FANTASY; #4 MYSTERY; #5 ADVENTURE; #6 SCIENCEFICTION/SCIFI* Something sinister is brewing on planet Karomoz - the central hub and heart of a galaxy with numerous hospitable planets. Rumors abound of experiments for creating the perfect soldiers, excavations for ancient relics...