Samuel 'Sailor' Doyle has transferred from Vice to Homicide in the Virginia State Police. He has a mistress, an alcohol problem, a prescription drug dependency, and a burgeoning self-loathing that alienates his wife and family.On Friday 3 July, the rookie investigator is assigned to a double homicide on a rural farm some 15 miles outside Richmond. One of the victims has been interred in a makeshift tomb, while the other is stuck half-in, half-out of a hope chest overflowing with ca...

Nerak is defeated. Steven Taylor has cast the malevolent dictator's soul into the Fold's inky void - but the evil that controlled Nerak and brutalised the people of Eldarn has escaped, and taken Mark Jenkins with it. Steven must put his own feelings to one side, for Eldarn's fate still hangs in the balance, and he remains the land's only real hope.As he and his companions make their way across country, rallying what remains of their allies, Mark, no longer the affable teacher from ...

America passed the 2018 Farm Bill removing hemp from prohibition and allowed for the registered and controlled cultivation of it. The Bill, defining that States inspect and measure hemp production, was designed for large-scale farming, it was never intended for what George Danback created with his “$50,000 in your backyard” billboards spawning micro-farming among backyard hemp gardeners everywhere.

This speculative fiction novella explores economic challenges and daily life in rural Segno, a small town in East Texas, through the story of Sarah Parker. Living in the pine woods with her husband Jack, Sarah identifies an opportunity to generate income by preparing and selling meals using expiring food from local stores. As Sarah's business expands, she navigates the complexities of rural economics, balancing profitability, scalability, and sustainability. The story delves into the intri...

The Larion spell table has been dormant for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. It waits in a forgotten chamber in Sandcliff Palace, the abandoned Larion Senate stronghold on Eldarn's North Sea. The spell table holds the power to see the people of the five lands safely through the oppression and brutality that have haunted them for generations, but without Lessek's key it is a worthless slab of granite - and Lessek's key itself is just a nondescript stone Steven Taylor and Mark Jenkins overlooked...

Steven Taylor is an assistant bank manager in a quiet little Mid-West town; his roommate Mark Jenkins is a high school history teacher. Steven's bored with his job; the thought of going through all the accounts that haven't had a single transaction in the past 25 years sounds even more boring - until he discovers one old prospector left $17,000 in October 1870; it's now worth 6.3 million dollars. There's a safe deposit box too, 17C, that's never been opened in all those years.And i...

Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits. In an age of increasing automation and standardisation, it is a joy to find such places, where craftsmanship and personal skills are still valued.Their world is recreated in Rob Scott's dramatic photographs, while the processes and history of the different industries is described in the accompanying text by Anthony...

Britain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community. It is a book in which the emphasis is very much on the word 'living'; looking at traditions, pastimes and working practices, some centuries old, that survive today not as museum pieces or in pages of a history book but as part of everyday modern life.From reminders of Britain's great maritime past in the crafts of the shipwright and...

Stanley is a sugarcane farmer in Englewood, Florida. He and other residents live around the ancient Indian Mounds in town and are afflicted by their presence. The town morally erodes and its townspeople succumb to disastrous indulgences. Stanley's friends and his son's (Chip) friends work together with local authorities to clean it up. The meaning and purpose of The Mounds are discovered by the town, the townspeople rally and restore wealth and power to those wrongfully plighted.

The impact of Artificial Intelligence depends on how it is developed, deployed, and if ever regulated. Finding a balance between reaping the benefits and addressing potential challenges is crucial for responsible AI development and use. But what if it goes all wrong and we fail to learn, shall we all end up the way of the Amish? Speculative Fiction about AI, Google dropping its “Don’t be Evil” motto and the FBI attempting to instill law and order over bias and cybercrimes.

In a chillingly plausible near future, the world’s most powerful nation is brought to its knees in a single morning. In the aftermath of a sudden and devastating national catastrophe, America is thrust into an unrecognizable new reality—one defined by grief, power vacuums, and radical social reordering. As wealth and responsibility shift overnight, a desperate search begins to rebuild society, but the solutions are anything but conventional. A network of radicalized women, disillusioned by...

George mows pastures for a living in Livingston, Texas. He battles rain and a deranged ex-wife to be able to see his children as they grow up. In conversations with his son, Colton, George passes down secrets of anti-gravity and Freemasonry as it pertains to a strange but real place near Miami called the Coral Castle. Intertwining stories culminate with the mysterious destruction of condos in Miami in 2021. Speculative Fiction loosely based on people, places and events described within.