As a Sheikha betrothed to a wealthy Sheikh, Yasmina knows how to behave. She wears rustling silk, curtsies when appropriate, and frequently yells at her fourth-best maid. She is not supposed to climb mountains. She is certainly not supposed to battle scorpions, ride monsters, or negotiate with evil lamps. But when Yasmina decides to leave Palace Djinlath and strike out for a mythical realm called Nocterem, she discovers that there are better things than being a Sheikha. #207 in Fantasy From the author of Rimwick, #6 in Fantasy

"When she sees me, the woman shrieks. Doors open in time to see her fall to the ground, screams splitting the air as her severed neck parts in a spluttering trail of blood. I grip my katanas carefully, white gloves on white hilts, staring down the length of my twin swords at the people sprinting away from me." There were five of them, in the beginning. Five children who grew up and became masters of ninjutsu. Five teenagers who traveled the globe before being killed by an international mercenary called Compass. But even when you're dead, Compass doesn't let you rest. Sequel to The Razed City, #10 in Action Mature for violence, death and abuse

***This story takes place 100 years before the events of Falcon and ELEMENT WIELDER. It is a novella prequel to Element Wielder!!!!**** On planet Va'siel, there exist beings who can control basic elements like fire, mind, void, and, water. Some even have power over advanced elements like poison, space, and lightning. These gifted people are known as element wielders. But times are changing. For reasons unknown, no earth wielder has been born in over one hundred years. Without an earth wielder to keep balance, the planet has undergone a scorch. Food is scarce. Plants no longer grow in abundance. Humanity is headed toward extinction. Young orphan, Aadi, knows all this. He spends his days scouring the rowdy streets of Missea, doing his best to keep himself and his best friend, Zoen, alive. He takes life one day at a time, not giving the future much thought. But an ancient evil is headed on a collision course with him. And a hidden power within him is urging to be set free. Aadi tries to ignore it, but it relentlessly calls to him. Will he be able to overcome his past and face the threat to Va'siel? And at what cost?

"His mother's screams remained etched in his mind. He promised himself that night he would never again stand by as people he cared for suffered, and he would one day kill Volcseck. He intended to keep those promises." Falcon Hyatt has a problem. For reasons unknown to him he can wield all the elements, not only basics like fire and water, but also those more advanced, like space and poison. And now the chaos element, the same one his parents' killer Shal-Volcseck wields, has awakened within him, with catastrophic results. To complicate matters, the Suteckh Empire has declared war on the capital cities of Va'siel. Now he must venture out into the world with his friends Lao, Faith, and Aya on a mission to stop the Suteckh from taking over Va'siel, and find his parents killer, as all the while he struggles to suppress his newfound abilities. In his quest Falcon is forced to question what he's really fighting for, where his loyalties lie, and his own character. Is he truly a good person, or an even more dangerous menace than the dreaded Shal-Volcseck? Element Wielder is the story of faith, love, and a young man's struggle to continue on his quest, when surrendering to his emotions and giving up is so much easier.

During the filming of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", there would frequently come times when the story called for the characters (and in the early days, it was often that bane of Trekkies everywhere, Wesley Crusher, the Platonic Ideal of Dork) to fix some far-future technical problem. Which means said characters had to employ far-future tech. Which by definition hasn't been invented yet. What happened over the course of the series was that they engaged a couple of people to be in charge of continuity and technology, and the script writers would insert into the scripts, "[technobabble here]", leaving the staff TechGeek to insert the proper futuristic-sounding tech gibberish. You know: Stuff that sounds realistically scientific, but is really just verbal handwaving. "Tachyon fields"; "Inertial dampers"; and so on. Welcome to my non-fictional, non-Star Trek, highly-idiosyncratic take on tech, tech-related topics, and sometimes random stuff that's just obliquely related to tech that was triggered by me reading or hearing or seeing something that happened to drift through the wide-open transom of my brain and get stuck there. Some of the items you will see here are funny, some I hope are thought-provoking, some could probably be filed under the hashtag of #DougRant, filtered through what my life-partner calls my "weird perspective". If you enjoy reading them, then they will have served their purpose. So read on and, hopefully, enjoy!

Book Three in the Project: Perses Series! I have lost everything; I have no family, no friends and even my 'super' powers have been taken from me. Worse still, the girl I love, the girl that won't give me the time of day, is carrying my child. This child will undoubtedly inherit my genetic makeup, which will pretty much guarantee that he or she will be a freak of nature. Just like daddy. I can't even entertain the idea of my being a father. Not because I don't want to be, but because this puts Vanessa's life at risk. Now I have to do everything I can to protect her, even if she can't stand the sight of me and has slammed the proverbial door in my face. Instead of standing beside her, being the father that this child will undoubtedly need, I have to hide in the shadows and protect them both. But without my powers, how much protection can I possibly offer? She doesn't know it, but there are still those out there that know about me; a dark, shadowy presence that will do whatever it takes to control me, to own me. Somehow I have sensed them, even without my abilities, I know they are lurking close by. The only difference is that now, they potentially have the ultimate pawn with which to do so, my unborn child. I have to make a choice, live a normal life free of the Project or give up my freedom to save those I love. Someone had told me once that no one ever leaves the Project, at least not alive anyway. I'm starting to believe that they were right.

Book Two of the Project: Perses series! They have taken the girl I love, killed my parents and my best friend and have made me an outcast in society. They call me a terrorist, a vigilante, but I'm not. I am what they made me. A freak of nature, a hybrid experiment out of their control. They wanted to create the ultimate superhuman species, a killing machine... and they succeeded. But I'm not really human anymore. Now I have to fight to save my girl while attempting to bring to light what they did to my family, to me, and to many, many more victims that do not have a voice, who's sacrifices will never be rewarded or acknowledged. I am on a quest to bring these bastards to justice, and if justice means bringing down even the President of the United States, then so be it. There isn't anything I can't do.

Book One of the Project: Perses Series! I've always suspected I was a monster. Not the fanged or hairy kind of monster, but something entirely different. Something man-made. Secrets kept from me since I was young enough to remember, truths told that only lead to more questions. I can do things others can't, have survived things that should have put me in a box six feet under. These secrets, how far and high do they reach, who in the end is the puppet master controlling it all? I am being hunted I'm on the run... This much I know, I won't succumb to those that chase me, I'll take them out first.

"I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" This is how Alan Turing starts his famous paper in which he introduces the concept of Turing test, a test to determine whether a machine can think like a human or not. Dr. John Clay has been called upon for a Turing test at the Bishop Research Corp. He is one of the best experts on this topic. He has already been a part of countless Turing tests, but this experience is different. What's different about this test? Read on. *ACHIEVEMENTS - Highest Rank #37 in Wattpad Science Fiction category.

*** Highest Rank #13 in Adventure Dr. Alice Hatter makes perfect human beings out of household appliances and kitchen ingredients. She calls them her Perfections because to stay alive, they need to physically feed on insecurities and what better food product has a high source of Vitamin-I? Humans. On her journey to terminate the Perfections, she realizes someone else is creating her Perfections. Someone who was once her perfect being.