A Random Assortment of Cautionary Tales is just that -- a random collection of one-page comic stories by Ray Hecht about the little things in life that haunt us so. No lessons to be learned really, just cautionary in the sense of the warning that everyday can bring new adventure in frustration, ennui, and meh.Featuring: Umbrella Thief, Why Does This Always Happen to Me?, The Train, Sketch, a Run, Yet Another Semi-True Story, and the 4-part series Unnecessary Cries For Help

It is Mid-Autumn Festival in Lunar Colony 01111001's Chinatown, a holiday celebrated by eating mooncake and regaling with tales of Chang'e flying to the moon.Little Xiao Yue asks her grandfather what it all means. There is always a generation gap. How can precocious children in the future understand the metaphor?Enjoy this short short, a taste of one writer's science fiction and Sino overlap..

Unfinished comic, but here it is free for you to enjoy. A tale of spies and romance.....

This is the first issue of my sporadically slowly released indie comics series, Cupcake Dreamy. With this one-shot story entitled 'Shopping Spree.' Angie and Kent are two lost souls wandering the streets of Hollywood. Witness some familiar sights, renamed and reimagined, through the eyes of these kids.Somebody is having a night like there's no tomorrow, someone is taking the adage too literally: that this is where dreams go to die, someone wants to go on a spree of sorts......

After Marine Warrant Officer Jacob Merin all but lost his right arm during an extraction in the Congo he found himself in the civilian sector without many civilian abilities. He was one of the best of the best, Marine Force Recon. He never imagined becoming a body guard would lead him to becoming the protector of humanities last best hope in North America. Chosen to head up security at Lazerath Project Untied States number 4 but Jacob wakes up from stasis to find the majority of the people...

While Dana is working to save the rainforests, someone else is working to end the world. When it all hits the fan, Dana seeks refuge with the last person on earth she would have believed possible - her new friend in the oil industry.Evolving Environment is the third story to be released of a series of many parts, collectively known as Dancing with Darwin

Hank Beveridge and Lieutenant Newton Shapiro are a couple of nice guys whose worlds just happen to collide. Hank's getting up in years and Newton has his first independent field command. On Third World, women of marrying age are scarce as hen's teeth. Hank's still looking though. Newton has a job to do, no matter who gets hurt. The Empire is a long ways away, but the locals are at least peaceable.

A story of man versus plant, plant versus machine, logic versus habit, possible versus real, biology versus mechanics, haphazard versus systematic and all the complexities in between. In the end the plant wins, since life always finds a way to elevate itself. But so does man. And so does the machine. Or whatever you want to call what it became.

In the small town of "Three Hands" not much happens. There is one sheriff with no deputy, just an old horse. The day the famous and mythical assassin, Rez Diamond makes camp outside of town things become more interesting for the lonely sheriff. Why would someone so famous come to little Three Hands? Never in history has a single individual been more feared, where Rez Diamond goes, death follows.

The victim of a hit and run accident David Charlton wakes from a coma after two years to find that his father has gone missing in the depths of space while on a survey mission. With a group of friends and with the help of his godfather he takes his father`s old freighter to search for him. Their enemy is a newly discovered alien civilisation that had already tried to stop his father`s ill fated voyage from leaving Earth, and by whatever means necessary.The alien military are plottin...

Willa Harmon can't seem to catch a break. Her ex-girlfriend is a freakin' psycho who just wants to pull Willa back into her web of needfulness. Willa doesn’t need the distraction, her life is complicated enough.Using security work as a cover to keep her real job secret, Willa falls in on a gang of drug smugglers. Which leads to the Navy’s rescuing and resuscitating her. Her use of an illegal gun to signal for help, destroys a multi billion dollar launch system, putting her in the F...

Twelve thousand years later, low on reaction mass and with 20,000 colonists aboard, Ark One is coming in hot. Captain Sandra Jensen and Astrogator Dooley Peeters have a plan to save her. There is the question of how they will be received, on an Earth that has returned to barbarism. That is, if they can slow her down enough to get a shuttle away..From what they can see, North America is headed for war. As if that wasn't bad enough, Dooley has an insane crush on 'The Ice Queen,' Captain Jens...