Swashbuckling Stories

She was a pirate. He was a prince. Their love story wasn't conventional, but then again, neither were they. *** Captain Adelaide Swan, the most notorious buccaneer to ever rove the high seas, is interested in one thing, and one thing only: stealing treasure. Masquerading behind a feathered mask, Swan manages to keep her identity a secret - until she meets Prince Flynn of Aontas, who is flabbergasted to discover that the infamous crook is, in fact, a woman. When an unfortunate set of circumstances leave the two with no choice but to set sail together, the prince is forced to live alongside the fiery pirate he so despises. But Swan hides a mysterious past, and as the chinks in her armour begin to show, Flynn learns that there's a thin line between love and hate. And she'll make him cross it.

Peter grew up alone on the streets with the other runaway boys. The world he lives in is polluted and hot. One day, he sees a girl who is struggling with her family life. She takes care of her siblings and her parents leave her alone all the time. This is his short story of helping her find her peace and her true home.

In the early 1700's, pirate Captain Jon Morgan comes across England, and decides to raid the kingdom. Due to a previous raid led by Morgan, King George keeps the princess, Angelica II, locked away in her bedroom. Because of this, Angelica lives a dull and boring life. But Jon Morgan is about to make her life the exact opposite...

A siren. A pirate. A sea monster. Calliope is a beautiful siren and lives with her sisters on an island lost to the rest of the world. When any man or ship comes too close, their haunting voices ensnare them and send them to a watery grave. After a storm, Calliope is captured by pirates who are lead by a wicked and captivating captain with eyes of glittering gold. They believe her melody to have the power to stop a vicious sea serpent which is tearing their pirate islands apart. As Calliope becomes embroiled in a thrilling and dangerous world unlike she has ever seen before, she is torn between her past and the new world that beckons on the edge of the horizon.

Chaos has driven the pirating world into a state of war. Losses are heavy, families are broken, and orphans are lost. There is little to be done except run and hide from The Order. They will stop at nothing to murder, pillage and destroy any pirate, legacy, or child that stands in their way of a clean world. Lead by cruel Captain Malcolm, The Order's conquest began long ago on the island of Radoon. It is there that Sage's journey begins. There that she first experiences the atrocity of The Order. Now, grown and with the world at her fingertips she must come face to face with the same man who ruined her home, family, and body. But for every old enemy there area new ones with losses of their own, and in a world that's ending before your very eyes trust is the last thing on anyone's mind. -- -- -- "The Order takes and takes and takes. You know that, I know that, and everyone else knows that. We appease them because we are afraid! Deals like this only enable their treachery. Look around. We're selling each other out! Pirates turning against pirates. What does that do except speed up the process of The Order's end goal? To get rid of us." Sage shook her head recalling the stories Reinhardt had told. Stories of leeches who were considered heroes. How The Order was composed of self-righteous men and women. "When is it enough?"

A rogues blades are as one with them as is their own heart.... or so one believes. One rogue learns that not everything is as it seems, and there is always something new to find beyond the horizon if one is daring enough to chase it.

Part two of this trilogy centres around a sea battle and the aftermath between Vasquez's newly acquired ship and a another poor vessel that crossed it's path. My Villain was making quitter a name for himself on the tides and this gave me a chance to boost his reputation a bit more. Not a massive lover of writing violence I managed to keep this part of the trilogy focused on how people feared Vasquez both around him and on board his own ship. It would have been easy to write outright slaughter but I would find little enjoyment in doing so! Allot of Crimson Tide was inspired by the Xbox 360game Assasins Creed Rogue which helped me get an understanding as to how a ship is maintained and how to describe the battles involved. It is also worth mentioning at this point that Vasquez has an unusual ally, something which came about in his first Dungeons & Dragons game; a pet chicken who is a Berserker called ThunderWing Doomslayer. Because reasons.

A young sailor aboard a seventeenth century Spanish treasure ship is shanghai'd to an altogether more mysterious and threatening vessel, and embarks on a life-changing voyage.

The Athena's Daughters 2 Kickstarter project is full of awesome art and fiction. Just this week, backers unlocked my short story (mine!) "Call Me Claw" wherein a terrible mage (and worse swordsman) accepts a job fighting armed bandits. It seems like a great deal until the dragon shows up. I'm putting up an excerpt from "Call Me Claw" here. If you like it, you might want to head over to Kickstarter and think about backing the project. Srsly, there's such nifty swag.

During the 9th century, in The City of Northon, England, The King is desperate to win the war against the shadow army. He tries to protect his land but repeatedly fails until he finds Ai, the greatest swordswoman in town.

For two hundred years, the world of Alarisia has lived through a great age of piracy. Men take to the seas to seek their fortune or die trying. Controlled by the seven pirate lords and hounded by the world navy, they sack and pillage their way across the oceans. But not all prosper under their rule, for many the pirate lords create only misery and death. Dean and Eldric Whittaker have never known their parents, orphaned in a pirate raid on their village the two brothers were raised by the mysterious wizard Rorschach. The only clue to their heritage, their strange abilities to control the elements of Ice and Fire. Harboring a hate for the pirate lords and a thirst for revenge, the brothers set out on their own voyage. But in a world inhabited by monsters and ruled by men with the power of gods, can they survive long enough to achieve their goal?

In an ancient and magical world of Terithian we are introduced to Prince Aetheon and his Telepathic Lyon K'nuba. First Born son of King Silas and Queen Lyla & Heir to the Kingdom of the Ali'a. From birth he trained to be a great warrior and lead his people into battle. Until one day his island nation was attacked by a tyrannical group of invaders calling themselves the Crimson Wyvern. With his family killed in the madness, Aetheon and K'nuba go on a quest around their world on a grand adventure stopping at nothing to bring justice & honor to the fallen. The odds are against the young prince and his companions for if they fail The world of Terithian will surely fall into utter darkness. Will Aetheon and K'nuba survive or will they perish as many have done before them???

Spacefaring idiots get in over their heads in this dark comedy adventure of heroism and villainy. Garoux Hogan & Syiy McDougle careen from system to system one step ahead (and two steps behind) the law. They pick up passengers and crew along the way, setting them up for deadly encounters and deadlier implications. Set in a future past where the universe isn't quite like ours, and our notions of what's real sometimes need setting aside -- A War for Tea and Flowers will drag you down the rabbit hole kicking and screaming until you want nothing else. An alternate-science fiction adventure set in the near past among a hundred sprawling worlds, _A War of Tea & Flowers_ ends up being an intimate tale of disparate characters deciding between self preservation and doing justice. Starring influences from the likes of Jules Vern, H.G. Wells, Gene Roddenberry, Robert A. Heinlein, Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, Anne McCaffrey. Joe Haldeman, and Ursula K. LeGuin. To be published in installments weekly.

A unlikely alliance forms between three young adventures. They have to set out on an epic journey across the seas to seek justice and discover a great family treasure. This treasure must be kept out of the wrong hands even if it means betraying family. Ironically enough they are traveling on the ship of the one that is working against them.

An ordinary story of a girl and a boy,and what makes it ordinary is their love ,and what makes it different is their love for music..Will their love for music make them begin or make them forget each other forever? Read on to unravel their journey...She is entangled in him,he is the one who makes her begin!