Sff Stories

Space is vast, and the Hauler is alone. It is a kilometers-long train of supplies, but it has been off course for years. Its lone inhabitant used to get transmissions from Earth, but eventually, even those stopped. An occasional visitor might be nice.

Franklin is alone and sick in the frozen Icelandic wilderness. The lights came from above. They came from the aurora. They bring with them either destruction or a new beginning. --- The Lights was inspired by two events this summer: my trip to the beautiful country of Iceland, and Gord Downie's (frontman of The Tragically Hip) very public battle with brain cancer. I dedicate this story to all cancer survivors, and to all those battling the disease.

There is no business as usual when the early stages of new building construction unearths a violation of physics and causality. (Now the Fictionette Freebie for July 2017! Full text inside!)

Who is Charlie Hemlock working for?

Ellie is a soldier in a world without governments. A generation ago, a series of financial crises caused most of the world’s governments to collapse, and left many of the people in those countries in terrible personal debt. Since then, the worst debtor nations have been under military occupation by the troops of the debt recovery corporations, and the worst debtor of all is Měi-guó, the old United States. Ellie is serving in the Afghan Police Action when she receives bad news from home. She is told the daughter she hasn’t seen in years is dead. She flies home from war, upset, to do what needs to be done, but once there she finds out all is not as it seems. Ellie’s daughter is alive and unhurt. She is being held by of one of the many debt-recovery corporations. Held, for leverage, to make Ellie do the corporation a favour. Ellie’s daughter will be returned unharmed if Ellie does as they wish. The son of a company director is lost somewhere in the wilderness of post-debt-restructuring America, and hasn't been seen for three days. The company wants Ellie to go and find the kid, and Ellie doesn't know if she can. The one rule she's stuck to all her working life is to never to go to America, but now she might have to. She will have to, if she wants to save the daughter she hasn't seen in years. This is fairly dark and gritty near-future dystopian SF. ----- Debt Collectors War is now on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QZG1RHI/ Also on iTunes and B&N and other places. Just if that's easier to read that way! But please don't feel obliged or anything, and thank you for looking -----

A collection of short works from the author of the award nominated The Relic Guild Trilogy. All stories, poems and oddities due to appear in this collection will be completed.

This is an anthology of fantasy-themed short stories and flash fiction. The stories will cover topics from magic, wizarding feuds, the afterlife, magical creatures, and magic schools, and cover ages ranging from young kids to young adult - it will never have mature content. Each story will be different! Please feel free to leave constructive criticism of my writing style and skills to help me improve. The newest update features a little witch who is trying to find her missing pet unicorn! Sporadic updates, aiming for once a week. Feedback appreciated! © Rowan_Grey 2018- Cover art by @cargopants

Self-proclaimed super-sleuth, 12yo LEXI WALKER, suspects her hometown harbours secrets and investigates. She soon finds a glowing, arcane Orb. When it imbues her with magical powers she can't control & transports her to a hidden world, her suspicions are realised.

Jaxx, the small French Bulldog Chester had bought Grace as a surprise, sees the ups and downs of his owners relationships even annoying them every so often along the way.

While heroes from three religions unite to save all existence from a threat out of Norse mythology, a thousand year love story begins... The Nine Worlds and multiverse of medieval times are threatened by reemergent threats from Norse mythology, and only the teenagers Clarinda Trevisan & Ríg can prevent the return of the darkest of the Artifacts of Destiny, the Codex Lacrimae. As the youths discover whether friendship and love can stand against the host of villainous enemies, supernatural forces, and the march-to-war on different planes of existence caused by the return of the most corrupt of the Books of Fates, the different paths that they choose are unexpected and filled with perils that are literally out of this world. In action-filled journeys and breathtaking battles that range across exotic locales such as the besieged Krak des Chevaliers on Midgard, to the Weeping Wood of Svartalfheim, the Dwarf-Caverns of Nidaveller, and even to the fabled Fjords of Asgard, the relationship between the Hospitaller and Norn develops and deepens. They find that they have to rely on each other if they're to successfully confront new menaces such as the Rock Giants, the Midgard Serpent, the Murderer Kullervo, Dietrich the Mad Dwarf, and Fafnir the Dragon...all of whom have joined Satan, Hela, Farbauti, and Morpeth in the hunt for the Codex Lacrimae... .

A mercenary in a village.

Labrys Town, home to a million humans cut off from the rest of the universe, has been invaded. Those who protected it have been deposed. The Relic Guild are scattered across the worlds of the Aelfir. Many of them are dead or dying. The Genii control everything. The war is almost over. Clara, a young woman barely able to control her werewolf side, has seen her friends and mentors killed in front of her. She is the last hope for Labrys Town. But someone else is watching...

But of course there's no such thing as time travel.

English translation of my short stories in French. Science-Fiction and Fantasy.

Jules Wanus didn't ask to have the powers of the Aspect of Death. And she certainly didn't ask to be the most powerful Chosen alive. But now one of Death's underlings is acting strange, and it's up to Jules and her sisters, Phoenix and Sulie, to stop him before something awful happens.

Energy can not be created, nor destroyed, but only converted into something else. In the distant future of humanity, three scientists undergo a daring plan to stall the effects of entropy on a dying universe.

TinkleWhiz, a robot from planet Sbarchink, acquires a magical power: he can turn invisible and roll through matter at will. He slowly discovers the joys of his new power and has some fun with it, until he gets a bit carried away and breaks the law when fame goes to his head.

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