Oh, damn what was I drinking last night.Without thinking I said aloud, "Valkyrie, how's tricks?""Joshua, what happened to you? You look younger. Are you still jumping?""Yes Val, still jumping from one hot spot to another."

This is a collection of short stories. All are fiction. Enjoy them as they are. Try not to think to deeply about what thoughts they may conjure up. Just enjoy!

The Call starts a chain of events that could get Bob killed. An old friend has people after him that will kill him, and anyone he is near."Got to, if I want to keep alive. I need a ride to Austin to attend a funeral Saturday."Jim started explaining how to identify the mob that was following us. ... Right out in plain sight. No one would notice unless they looked at their hands, ... A brass colored ring on their trigger finger ...The guy with three cats hanging off him...

Most 1st contact stories either lead to peace or war. The side annihilated depends upon the author.My three stories have some twist that I hope you didn't anticipate. Enjoy!

As John came of age he thought he had the world by the tail. His sisters weren't interested in the part of the inheritance he wanted. Others had their own plans for him. Step by step he learned the lessons that life has to teach. Experience had its own idea of what he would learn along with the scars that time supplies.

These stories are purely the work of what Holly would refer to as my Muse. My Muse must have lost its mind because of the different topics it guided me to in writing. Some will leave you wondering what's next, others will make you think I've also lost my mind. 'Ha Ha Ho Ho He He, they're coming to get me, Ha Ha!' If that is the case this may be my last published work. Enjoy it!Maybe I'll write a short short short story here:The sun went down. The sun came up the next morning....

Bill has survived his reviving. He now owns a major corporation, because his descendants kept his profits used his money for their own greedy purposes. However, can he survive the future. A painful death awaits him if he makes a mistake. Love if he is lucky. With enemies coming from all directions, is his only hope a smart spacecraft?

You may have noticed I'm using a plain green cover. I lost my cover designer. However, I think that the story is more important than the flashy cover.The short stories are about four families that prepare for the worse. Some deliberately, some just fell into preparing. Enjoy!

A female soldier is almost killed by an IED. She is on deaths door, but finally begins a partial recovery, and comes to grips with her injuries. When she is kidnapped from the hospital, she is thrust into a situation that is out of this world.The kidnapper, not aware of her physical condition, gives her an ultimatum. Failure to comply with the ultimatum would result in another situation she considers worse than slavery.When she finally gets him to realize her physical conditi...

Running from Indians is not my favorite past time. Watching my few cows disappear into ravine that turns into a cave didn't make my day. Riding off a cliff into a river really ruined it. The valley was immense, and not a sign of people anywhere. Even the sky looked wrong at night.After a year I heard a scream. By time I got to the river they were leaving. With nothing to do, I hung around. Little did I know what fate had in store for me when Kat and the girl came back out of the cav...

For those that instantly transition from sleep to being awake, you have my condolences. I wake up slowly and transition that time in a state of awareness that puzzles me. Sometimes I see parts of my plans for that day. Other times I am aware of thoughts or situations that I've been in. Very occasionally I'm aware of situations and thoughts that I know haven't happened, or cannot happen in this politically correct orderly world.Occasionally short stories jump into what you are workin...

Man has dreamed of faster than light drive so they can visit the any star in a decent time frame, one lifetime or with only a few years travel. Well Einstein's general theory of relativity says it's impossible. He and other physicist claim that gravity is the base that the universe is built on. That leaves all possibilities of manipulating gravity at travel slower that light speed, or maybe exceeding light speed by manipulating gravity in a way that we haven't turned from theory into a pra...