There is a legend in the Archipelago. Long ago, the ocean grew weak, and feared for his heart. He took to the form of man and walked among the people.Tawhiri was a gift from the ocean. Plucked from the waves as an infant. The people of the Islands know that the Ri, the spirits of the ocean, abandon unwanted half-breeds on the shore. These demigods are destined to return to the sea and leave ruin in their wake. It has happened many times before.Tawhiri has n...

A collection of short stories spanning science fiction, horror, and fantasy spanning ten years of writing and publishing. Here you will find battles, spaceships, ghosts, and talking trees. Some bring you back to familiar friends and worlds, while others introduce something new.

They Say the Ends Justify The MeansWhen Menrva, a geneticist in the subterranean city of survivors known as Bunker, responds to a call for help from Cowl, her former best friend, and Bas, a renegade cyborg, she makes a vital mistake and places all three of them in danger. As they struggle to escape City guards, cyborg soldiers, desperate scavengers, and ravenous aliens, they find in each other something they never expected: family.An attacking cyborg manages to overcome her...

Protecting his family isn't easy for Starke Coven. Miles below the surface of an inhospitable earth and struggling to make ends meet in a heartless society, Starke works his legal maintenance job during the day, runs contraband through the dangerous underbelly of the city during the nights, and struggles to manage a depressed mother and fatherless younger brother at home.When Starke's father returns years after abandoning the family, Starke is quick to offer a bribe to keep him fro...

Jordan Launay is a man who strives to excellence. Failure is not an option. His life is defined by a drive for integrity and efficiency. These are the traits that earned him the coveted, high-ranking position as a handler in the government's highly secretive special ops program. For the last several years, he has been raising and training five genetically modified children, preparing them for their future battling the alien monsters that drove humanity under the surface.Jordan has ...

A chance meeting at a SciFi-Fantasy convention leads Jared to the rescue and fitful romancing of Rana, descendant of the ancient Sea Elf pirates. Their city was destroyed as a consequence their siding with evil in a great war thousands of years ago. Before she and her sister can return and reclaim the land they feel is rightfully theirs, they need to escape a mad preacher trying to kill them. In their world however, another people is casting a covetous eye on the city as well and few have ...

What comes after surrender?When Bas willingly returned to the Compound, Menrva swore his sacrifice wouldn't be in vain. As Bunker hurtles toward an uncertain future, she determines to do whatever it takes to give humanity their best chance.All Cowl can think about is rescuing Bas. He incites riots among the citizens in hopes of breaking down the doors, not knowing that Menrva's abusive husband is staging a violent coup. Civil war breaks out in the Compound ...

The only choice left is to make is war.They ran. They fought. They stood between the jaws of death and the City that had persecuted them.But with hope of a real future for humanity and themselves, they want more than survival.Bas's mind and body has deteriorated under the heartless control of the City, but even as he finds new allies, he is faced with a battle for what's left of himself.Cowl is struggling to adjust to his new handicap. He has no love left to...

Is it possible that Elves (and for that matter Dwarves and Goblins a well) are among us today? Living and loving, fighting with us… and occasionally against us… and every now and then among themselves? What if we became romantically involved with them and they could take us with them when they went back and forth to their world?Jon Pritchard finds out when he rescues "Ellen," a "bad girl in trouble," only to discover that she's an Elf, and that he has put himself and Jenny, his six...

With everyone he cares about either dead or long absent, Cowl Coven has lost interest in life.Despite the endless distractions of a high-profile job as a programmer in the Hub and nightly runs into the chasm below for the black market, he still finds himself looking for a way out. When a hacked piece of data reveals what seems to be human life on the desolate, alien-infested surface of Earth he thinks he might have just found it.What he finds instead is secret government pr...

An island girl encounters a previously unknown sea faring race and faces the ridicule of the rest of her village.

There are many tales of Snow Drop or Snow White. They all are told with her accepting a marriage proposal from a prince she does not know. In most tales, she is anywhere from six to fourteen. All the tales stop at the death of the wicked queen, leaving one to wonder what really happened to our beloved heroine. This tale gives the story of the prince. It explains why a child would propose to a younger child. It leads the reader to conclude why a very young child would accept such a proposal...