Alien colonists who warp spacetime as easily as lighting a cigarette . . . Refugees searching for a home in a hostile landscape . . . A mysterious disease whose source is out of this world . . . Virtuality reality brings out the worst in humanity, and much more . . . The people who share this planet with us are mind-blowing, sometimes literally. This is a collection of stories I wrote as a young man, only one of which has been published before, under the pseudonym you see here. It's available for free. More info about the five companion volumes and a budget-priced omnibus here: http://seanwilliams.com/2016/11/story/

A modern, twisted retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

I dip my hands in the scalding dishwater. The pain rips through my fingers, feeling as if it is burning the flesh. I don’t mind though. Pain is the only thing that still makes me feel like a human being. The thing is, I’m not.

A quest, a prince and a mystical city.

Sitting in a clearing, Luke is alone, injured and friendless. When given the chance to change it all, will Luke make a deal with the devil?

Autumn and Summer are opposites, best friends, and twins. Autumn's a beautiful, popular, friendly sixteen-year-old that strives for perfection . Summer's a confident, sarcastic, and unusual girl that prefers cargo pants to any pair of jeans. But when a rumor starts that ruins Autumn's reputation, she goes to drastic measures to cope, and Summer must to something to help her sister... before it's too late.

Emano, a young hearth keeper, is a worker of the great flames. His job is to keep the great fire alive through summer, and through the harsh winter. As he works he discovers that he can sense future events by looking into the fire. When a girl is found in the forest, Emano helps her and they become good friends. When Emano tells Kinh about seeing things in the fire she remembers seeing a carving in an abandoned temple in the woods that show somone seeing pictures in a flame. Emano and Kinh must look, but find themselves in terrible danger. When all hope seemed lost, a light shone, coming from the end of their tunnel. A burner.

Every faery is born with a gift. Every gift is used for the good of fae existence, but when a troublesome faery is blessed with the greatest of abilities, the outcome doesn't look so promising. Nahtaia is a mischievous faery with one of the greatest of gifts; distortion. After accidentally turning a human boy into faery size, her powers are immediately seized by the Jaydürian Voices (deities) and banishment is a likely punishment. Luckily, the Minister of Fae Assignment is unaware of her mistake. With the help of a pine faery named Oren, Nahtaia must find a way to change the human back to his natural state and regain her abilities, all while keeping hidden from the keen eyes of the Ministers of the faery realm lest she be stripped of her wings and doomed to a life without the one thing she loves most; magic.