a futuristic world where science is the new god, humanity is legend and technology is the norm. what happens when the most ancient species appears in the system again? © castor may 2019™

A crime scene cleaner and a demon profiler must clean up a vampire hoarding site, find a powerful relic, and toss it back into hell before it destroys the French Quarter and the world.... My name is Faith Jordan. I clean up crime scenes after the police, CSI, and the dead have gone home, and faithless, dark places where the dead, and other creatures, linger on. I run FULL MOON CLEANERS and my main responsibility is to thoroughly and discreetly mop up after someone or something dies violently, to restore a scene to what it looked like before the violent death. I am daily exposed to nasty human blood-borne diseases and nasty inhuman viruses like vampire, zombie, and the rarer werewolf virus. During a recent job, I got infected with the werewolf virus, so I needed a friggin' vacation. I took a trip to the Old South with my lover Ash, a former priest and demon profiler. We found ourselves cleaning up my first vampire crime scene in an old jazz joint. The vamps at the scene were missing their heads. After we finished cleaning it up, Ash reluctantly came with me to New Orleans, so I could return the vamp's over-payment. No way I was going to be indebted to a vampire. But there was a small problem. The overweight, depressed, socially awkward, blues man/vampire "Ham" wanted us to find out who was killing vampires and why he was on a hit list. He didn't want to die on a sour note. He wanted us to clean up his putrid town home next. See, he's a hoarder and he misplaced something that someone powerful desperately wants back. Ash wanted no part of New Orleans, where he'd almost been turned by one of the world's most seductive vampires, Lilith, who'd kept him imprisoned for years before he escaped. Lilith is part of one of the most vicious lust demon crime syndicates in The Crescent City and she wants the Kissing Stone for herself. But I'm going to find it first. Ash and I will just have to take things one full moon at a time...

A former robot king and a falsely accused political prisoner become friends and explore ways to escape from deep inside the planet. Will they suceed and find a place that they can truly call home? With two bonus and two other unpublished stories.

This is full of different stories I come up with in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping. Or then I'm just having a headache and being the most creative I'll ever be.

A possible future in less than 500 words, if plastic wins. This was my entry for the WattPad/National Geographic #PlanetOrPlastic competition back in late 2018. It reached their Top 10 Submissions which, given that there appeared to be well over 5000 entries, was a very pleasant surprise! The competition itself had a limit of 500 words so, for those who keep asking if I intend continuing the story, the answer (for now!) is no - unless I can find a very good reason for adding any more. Many thanks to everyone reading and voting on this story and getting it to number 1 in the #sciencefiction category in May/June 2020! I did try to thank the voters individually on their pages but Wattpad have a daily limit on the number of times I'm allowed to do that and there are now too many of you (not that I'm complaining)! Here's the top 10 submissions page: https://www.wattpad.com/list/738243473-planetorplastic-top-10-submissions If you want to read the story in Polish please head over to https://www.wattpad.com/story/236405960-m%C4%85dro%C5%9B%C4%87-staro%C5%BCytnych-t%C5%82umaczenie-pl where @juliatlumaczy has done a fine job - thank you, Julia! @juliatlumaczy has now sent me a version of the cover she used for her Polish translation - thanks again, Julia! @alex_sokolova has also translated the story into Russian as well. You can read that here: https://www.wattpad.com/976002417-мудрость-древних - many thanks, Alex! We now have a third translation! @AlfonsoLucassen has kindly translated it into Spanish and you can find it here: https://www.wattpad.com/1063634347-la-sabidur%C3%ADa-de-los-antiguos