Randall Dark is just looking for a job. But there are forces at work in the world that want control, and they have other plans for Randall and his new associates. “Axis Mind – Initiation” brings you part two in the Axis Mind Encounters series. A storm is on the horizon, and change is coming with it.

“Axis Mind” is a short story about a singular encounter with the anomalous. A moment that brings with it a disturbing memory of events. In this first story within a broader series, Randall Dark remembers a night on a lone Japanese shoreline, and from there, everything changes.“Axis Mind” is the introductory short story in an ongoing series of adventures about ex-special forces operator Randall Dark. In 2005, nothing is going right for Randall, and then he looks up.

Beyond the boundaries of our reality, ancient factions of living machines patrol the skies—and Captain Del Montgomery is about to join them.Del is no longer on his home Earth but instead finds himself stranded as a "ghost" in a sprawling, alternate realm where humans and nearly immortal alien visitors share a lively, secret commerce.Del must navigate a delicate balance among alien factions, witnessing everything from battleship-sized orb-ships resting in the rafters of impo...

"Live in fame or go down in flames."Del is a pilot trapped in a bizarre, alternate-reality aircraft graveyard, surrounded by the wreckage of aviation history.Aided by inhumanly strong, faceless android mechanics and a sentient flight helmet that acts as his tactical guide, Del is thrust into a desperate fight for survivalTaking to the skies in a sluggish, barely functioning World War I Sopwith Camel, Del's courage is tested to its limits.But this is more tha...

Injured and alone, Del's only companion is the strange voice inside his flight helmet—a synthesis of human and alien technology that has merged with his mind to evaluate his worth for the Singularity program.As if the hostile environment wasn't enough, the graveyard is patrolled by blinding, telepathic orbs and haunted by phantoms of the past, including a World War II Mitsubishi Zero flown by an enemy pilot undergoing his own deadly test.Waiting for him at the end of the li...

Steve stands at a crossroads: remain in a stolen, domestic lie. Or vanish into time and find a version of himself worth saving.

"On the day of the Great Departure, there were no missiles left. Only the agonizing choice between extinction and the stars."Humanity and synthetic life have fought themselves to a standstill. Earth is a burning ruin where a billion combat drones have been reduced to dust, and ten million hearts will never beat again. But out of the ashes of this terrible war, an unlikely savior has returned to secure emancipation.To lead a race of ascendant androids to salvation, ...

Crossing the sacred boundary etched into the salted, infertile earth of the Taiga kurgan, Rodion knows the risks. Here, the green steppe razor grass cuts through blackened patches of snow that refuse to melt, and the fading grip of winter reaches through his bear-skin coat like a hand looking for one last life to take. This is a place where the air smells of fresh moss and wet campfire rocks, and where the ancient deer stones stand as silent sentinels—or warnings.

Every world has a blind spot. We just never realized ours was staring right back at us.We believed we were the apex predators of Earth, completely unaware that our digital addictions were a carefully designed trap—a cosmic lureThe vast technological networks we built became the very spiderweb we blindly walked into, and a quiet, methodical harvest beganBrent and his shattered band of friends are reduced to huddling in dirt holes.Stripped of the technology an...

Five acolytes are cast into the unforgiving vacuum of deep space with nothing but stripped-down exosuits and minimal thrusters. Their harrowing mission: survive a deadly freefall into the "nursery," a massive, swirling matrix where colossal, living "god-ships" are continuously forged. To live, they must physically and mentally bond with a newly coalesced warship in a permanent union known as integration.

In the remote, windswept village of Frenthold, the people live on a knife's edge between the outlawed old ways of blood and magic and the new laws of a distant king's faith.A gripping tale of folk horror, dark fantasy, and cosmic dread, Salazar's Wheel is a descent into madness you won't be able to put down.

Some debts are paid in gold. His will be paid in blood.In a world of shadowy gambling dens and quiet alleys where fate is a pulled silver thread, easily snapped. Here, every wager is a risk, every loss brings you closer to the knife's edge, and every debt is an oath that will be honored—one way or another. For a tired soldier running from his ghosts, the final bill is coming due.Corius is a veteran of forgotten wars, haunted by the voices of battle that only cheap drink and...