'My nightmare had a beautiful face.' Flash fiction inspired by twelve years of Catholic education, Shakespearean tragedies, and too many music videos. Written for the Poet Anderson flashfic contest. Cover created via Wattpad's Covers app.

Round One: Four friends on a picnic in 1830s France decide to pass the time with a wishing game not unlike Truth or Dare. The wishes they make weave tales of love, addiction, sensuality, hope, fear and rebellion laced with just a bit too much Truth... Round Two: When the bones of the recently-deceased Frederick Barbarossa are stolen, Petrus the surgeon/chaplain/executioner/ herbalist/scaliwag must get them back, whatever it takes... Round Three: The widow of Assha Yokuta is being haunted by the ghosts of her dead sons. The monk Yokui wants simply to lay the spirits to rest, but finding the truth of where they died - and in the service of whom - is harder and more dangerous than he could have imagined... These stories have been written for The Pub's Historical Fiction Smackdown! The Historical Fiction Smackdowns are hosted by @FrozenInTime and involve writing short stories with particular criteria until you are eliminated! I hope you enjoy!

This is a another prequel short story to The Cloud Roads, the first novel in the Books of the Raksura series, which is available from Night Shade Books in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. This one is about the main character Moon, when he was a young boy and still traveling alone.

An elderly collector of second-hand books wrestles with his unusual ability to "read" the lives of his books' previous owners... and with one unique book he can't seem to read.

A shantytown sails upon the sea; a lonely boy builds himself a friend; and the night sky in Japan's frozen north is filled with stars. Surely you've heard the Tale of the Five Magicians: Anne-Marie, Paolo, Goodman, Fyodor and Aika? let me tell it to you again, and for the very first time.

Once upon a time, a cat fell in love with an ambitious man.

A 2000 word story about life, death, and the dance in between.

It is New Year's Eve, the final hours of the 22nd century. Through a miraculous intervention between three different timelines in Earth's brief history, an alien race makes first contact with humankind.

The Magnetron Chronicles, Volume 1 Phineas Magnetron is an eccentric Nineteenth Century inventor blessed with a strange gift he doesn't completely understand. As a former soldier and current member of the Hogalum Society, an inscrutable secret organization of crime fighting adventurers, Phineas is no stranger to peril and derring-do. But when the Society founder dies, Phineas embarks on a daring and improbable caper to bring the good doctor's greatest dream to fruition posthumously. In the process, he not only horrifies his Society brothers, but unearths a haunting and compelling mystery. About The Magnetron Chronicles: The Magnetron Chronicles is a serialized steampunk tale told in the grandiose style of Jules Verne, but with satirical Twainian wit. Chapter by chapter, the story builds as quirky new characters join the fray and perplexing new mysteries and situations arise. Traveling the globe, Phineas Magnetron and his Hogalum Society encounter suspicious policemen, mentally ill criminals, wood-craving aliens, a witch doctor, a mad oracle, and a cross-dressing female matador, among many others. However, this "steam dream team" always manages to triumph over impossible odds and improbable obstacles as they preserve order in a disorderly world. More information: http://themagnetronchronicles.blogspot.com