Short Stories > Science Fiction

Introduction: In 1978 I began writing in earnest, sci-fi stories and thoughts, by 1983 I had begun writing for therapeutic reasons. In 1989 after hearing some of my work, my friend David Cucuzza talked me into reading at the Espresso Bar coffeehouse in Pasadena. These poems are from this era, up through 1993 my first marriage, grad school, singing with the band at the Upland Boar's Head and working numerous mental health positions. They are my development, my art, my identity love, peace and knowledge,

Agent Cyclone is the story of the origins of Cyrus (Seer-us) “Cyclone” Jones. A young woman from Georgia with the God-given ability to control the weather as far as she can see.

A collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Supernatural Suspense short stories, with afterword comments by the author, who happens to have Asperger's and D.I.D. (multiple personalities.) The motivation for writing, beyond entertainment, is to encourage anyone with barriers in their life that they can find a way to their dreams. CONTENTS: FOOD CHAIN - Science Fiction, We like to believe humans are the top of the food chain, but we are just the big fish in our very small pond. 2200 words SCOUT PROLOGUE - Science Fiction, An introduction of the Scout series, wherein humans are at war with five alien species. We are not doing well, but tend not to take defeat lying down. 3000 wo ...

The Banished is a novel that tells the story of fifteen women who, for similar reasons, were forced to leave their homeland and immigrate to the United States.The Banished, in discovering that they currently find themselves living through similar experiences and frustrations, turn: their tears into laughter, pain into comfort, uneasiness into temporary peacefulness, sense of power into weakness, and excitement into depression. The Banished consciously become aware of their bodies being in a state of weightlessness, floating and wandering in an environment that neither allows them to fly nor to be dropped.

Revenge, retribution and restitution pervade this collection of short stories from beyond the grave and outside the natural order. They run the gamut of the other-worldly: one metallic messiah seeks out it’s subjects; a certain special someone oversees safety at a modern airport; a rogue entity challenges the poachers on an African game preserve; a hired hand encounters the backyard collection of an artistic recluse; one tradition bound farmer protects his property with a one of a kind pet and a future society where silence is not only golden, but the law of the land. Alongside the others contained within these pages, they defy every cherished notion that the first light of dawn dispels ...

A tale that is a microcosm of our human reaction to population density and an allegory for a generation contemplating resource allocation in the modern age.

The book contains three short stories. The strangest heroes of all time. Strangest tales you may read. You may considered them heroes or you may not but the one thing they are good at is killing criminals. Sex is a big part of one story but is also the main focus of the story because Black and White Magic develop their super powers from having plenty of sex. These stories are stories that will have other episodes also in the future.

It was an age when canals etched the ancient face of Mars, and when Mankind dreamed of life on a red planet wandering the night sky. It was an age of exploration, exploitation, and imagination. It was an age chronicled in pulp magazines by strange and beautiful stories of Mars, which, in the end, were stories of human nature. It was, and will always be, The Golden Age of Mars. From the pages of pulp magazines comes 14 stories of Mars by some of the best Science Fiction writers of the time. At 7x10 inches and 150 pages, the print version of "Mars: The Golden Age" is formatted in the traditional size of pulp magazines, but without the magazine ads and fluff. Further enhancing the p ...

Nine-year old Emily Day was unaware that her life would be thrown to shambles after a destructive car crash on a fateful evening. Blood is spilled and lives are changed forever after one perilous trip to the hospital.