During the height of the dotcom era free-thinking Texas cowboy Duke Tanner becomes wealthy by investing in Bay Area technology start-ups. Duke attributes his success to his own version of the concept that wealth can be created through the power of thought and he becomes a local New Age guru. The charismatic Duke starts marketing his ideas in the San Francisco area and soon finds an eager audience during the stock market boom of the 1990s, becoming an in demand lecturer and author. By chanc...

During the height of the dotcom era free-thinking Texas cowboy Duke Tanner becomes wealthy by investing in Bay Area technology start-ups. Duke attributes his success to his own version of the concept that wealth can be created through the power of thought and he becomes a local New Age guru. The charismatic Duke starts marketing his ideas in the San Francisco area and soon finds an eager audience during the stock market boom of the 1990s, becoming an in demand lecturer and author.B...

William "Rooster" Brown is new in town. No family. No money. No prospects. And his first order of business is to kill the waitress who spurned his awkward advances. But what starts out as the worst decision of his life leads to the best thing that ever happens to him. Unexpectedly his plan is interrupted by two thieves who attempt to assault a young woman during the course of a robbery. Rooster comes to the girl's rescue and shoots her attackers dead, launching him into the unexpected role...

In a well of depression, Gavin, quits his telemarketing job and joins a group of radical idealists. In the days leading to his act of terror, a typo has all news stations emasculating the acts of his terror group. Thinking he will be remembered forever as someone less than a man, Gavin ponders the things that men do.

Katharina, the daughter of a Czech Duke and her maid Sheba are captured by the Comanche War Chief, Great Eagle and taken to his camp in central Texas. The Duke appeals to Sam Houston, the President of the Republic of Texas to rescue the young women. Houston call upon the Texas Ranger, John Haley and his Rangers to find the young women and to destroy Great Eagle's camp. John saves Katharina, but he cannot save his heart. If you liked my story, please read the expanded version, A Texas Texas...

Wielder of special powers by night, solemniser of marriages and distributor of healthcare aids & appliances by day, Tarquin Murphy lives for the moment. From a position of power in the asylum he torments his opponents and bestows commodes on others. But a dark and evil force is out to upset Tarquin's applecart. Can he discover the culprit and avoid being named, shamed and imprisoned for embezzlement?"#AllUsers is a satirical novella of earth-shattering literary inconsequence." Mrs ...

"Wet Medicine Dreams" is Kim Campion's second collection of short stories about sex, violence, aliens, and personal and planetary growth. There's a lot of westerns in this one. Inside you'll find a lonely prospector who falls in love with an alien way out in the woods one night, a young vegetarian cowboy and expert pistolman out to avenge his family's death, a little girl who has an interaction with Bigfoot in the future Glacier National Park, and some other more contemporary stories like ...

Prospector Dan Rourke is always the first one to go in springtime and the last one out in the fall. This year, he’s left it a bit late. After days on snowshoes, and with night falling, he desperately needs to warm up. The Ghost Saloon still stands, but he’ll burn it down if he has to.

Andy Simon wakes up in excruciating pain, a pain for which there is no explaination. He then hears sirens from vehicles that aren't there. Then his wife kisses him gooodbye and begs him not to die on her, though she doesn't even seem to notice her own strange words. His day only gets weirder from there. Why does the pain persist? Why does his coffee taste like blood? Why is he the only one who seems to notice the torrential rainstorm he's driving in? And what does that car accident he keep...

The road home can be lonely but once Mindy McKinley pulled into town; her heart felt like it was right where she belonged. With a baby in her belly and a whole lotta 'I've done and grown up' attitude, the last thing this starlet needs is a cowboy in her life to muck it up a bit.Once star struck, now love struck, Mindy keeps on telling herself that the next kiss will be the last. How can one handsome cowboy be so perfect at such a time that it would be best not to have a man in her l...

Computer consultant Sarah Hughes is desperately unhappy. Trapped between the demands of her prominent Baltimore family and a cruel boss, Sarah knows that something has got to give. After a crisis at work that sends her to the hospital -- again -- Sarah searches for an escape hatch. A vacation in rural Nevada strikes her fancy, partially because her mother was from a small town in Nevada, and partially because Sarah is hooked on old Western movies. Everything about the West is fascinating t...

Cedric couldn't be blamed for enjoying his personal success and he also couldn't be blamed for taking his eye off reality in the indulgence of this success.