Crime, betrayal and murder in the Wild West....There's no honor among thieves.

The first time I saw Adam Davis, he was at the casino. The second time he was dead. I have all the luck at making friends. It's a gift. I don't do murder cases. There's a more than even chance that you'll end up with an empty wallet and a bullet in your back. Adam was someone else's dirty business, and I didn't want to get pulled into it, but sometimes you don't get a choice... Author's note: This was a short story I submitted for a detective fiction competition in 2013.

After suffering a serious injury on the battlefield, Alan Blackburn turns to a childhood friend for an occupation. He's given a job as a cybernetically enhanced hitman, executing missions for an organization with dark motivations, but might be the only good left in the world. As everything seems to be coming together, his guilt is finalized as a tragic enemy rises to destroy what little Alan has left, and take no prisoners in the process. Winner of the MAX@MNU 2016 Senior High Creative Writing - Fiction category.

After being injured, Kevin Dean awakes to find himself in an unfamiliar place, and being chased by a ruthless group of mercenaries. Winner of the MAX@MNU 2014 Junior High Creative Writing - Fiction category.

Chosen when a child, Lady Joselyn is trained to be a ruthless killer. She is destined to be the English king's assassin and protector. Only he and the guild master are supposed to know. It's a life and death secret that must be kept. For an assassin survival is precarious. Life is something you simply cannot take for granted because the next day is never granted. Despite her privileged upbringing, Joselyn quickly learned how to survive on her own and to never trust a soul while following the Guild without question. Upon her return to England, a murderous plot against King Cassiush is discovered. Joselyn is shocked when she finds out who the fiend is. She's even more shocked when the King proposes marriage, a lot. An assassin has never married her king before. The last one who fell in love had her tongue ripped out and was burned alive. Letting her emotions cloud her judgment, Joselynfalls for Cassius and agrees to the marriage, jeopardizing not only his life but her own. Disobeying the Guild means death. Now she must figure out how to keep them both alive and not piles of smoldering ash.

A young boy discovers evidence of higher beings, sparking a lifelong quest to prove their existence for the greater good of humanity. Winner of the MAX@MNU 2015 Junior High Creative Writing - Fiction category.