Every earthquake. Every pandemic. Every siege and tsunami. All this destruction. So many times. Just for a glimpse of her face.

Centuries ago a mysterious family of mad geniuses split into five clans; feuding, hiding, hording their secrets of fighting and art, magic and science. Now at the dawn of the mechanical 19th century, only the five clans united can hold back the blood-red tide of industrial apocalypse. Unless they dive into it laughing. I did say 'mad'

Short science fiction and fantasy stories from my collection of old and moldy manuscripts.

Global warming, global cooling, what if all the predictions are right? Or worse, what if all the predictions are wrong? Can humans truly hope to understand the complexities attendant on such changes, never mind explain their relationships and predict their effects? The people at WBI - Walden Biodiversity Institute - think they can. At the very least, they intend to prepare as well as possible for the changes to come, whatever they may be. This is not a story of tragedy and despair. This is a story of possibilities and hope, of dreams and perseverance. If you want to know what the future could bring, should bring, start here. " ...this future sounds amazing. Not for the first time, I wish the world was more like your stories..." Utopian dreams and technological innovations. Not merely airy wishful dreams of what it would be like to be there, but realistically hopeful dreams of how to get there. This story could be a revelation of what our next twenty years will bring.

Humans have migrated to many underwater habitats sprawling the blue frontier. However, a war is brewing in the wild blue, where freedom is a commodity between the opposing factions. But war is far from Ava Cade's mind. Living in Anapos-a habitat on the edge of the frontier-isn't easy. Focusing on scraping enough money together to survive, Ava helms a submarine as part of a two person scavenging team with her best friend, Logan King. When one of their routine hauls ends in disaster, it puts them at odds with their maniacal boss. Desperate to square her debt, she looks for whatever work she can find-before her employer sends her swimming over the blue horizon. Ava's luck appears to change with a job offer to work in the director's offices in the affluent side of the habitat. The director controls all that happens in the hab-without input from the citizens of Anapos. But soon, Ava learns that all is not as it seems in her hab. The shadow of war draws closer as tension builds between Old and New Anapos, coming to a head at a great personal cost. To help save Anapos, Ava must decide where her loyalties lie and fight for freedom. In a quest for answers and justice, she must sneak into the archives, fight pirates, and avert a terrorist plot. Who can she trust? And what is the director really hiding?

Elsa Silvereye, the greatest thief in all of Vordelle, cares for only one thing in the entire world: her twin sister Elaine. She would do anything to protect her. When a mistake in judgement leads to Elaine's abduction, Elsa is coerced into stealing the most precious artifact in Vordelle--the Lightshield. Little does she know that the Lightshield is the key to the banished demons' prison, and her theft of it threatens to release the demons upon the world. Forced to join forces with the two men she blames for her parents' deaths, Elsa fights to protect her sister and stop all of Vordelle from the destruction she's caused.