Dawn: A True Story of Courage and Survival. Non-fiction, short story. What would you do if you suddenly found yourself lost in the woods? In the winter time? At ten years of age? Here is a remarkable story about a young girl who faced down this dilemma - and lived to tell about it. Dawn, who has been challenged since birth, was walking home from school one day when she became the target of bullies. She ran into the woods to escape her tormentors, only to find herself in a trap of a differe...

Do you ever wonder if there is a similitude that exists in the lives spent on this earth? What is this thing we call "life" - are there hidden connections between seemingly disparate entities, metaphysical threads that bind the multitude of difference animating the flesh and spirit of this world? Is there some kind of pattern in the chaos, some secret, shared destiny played out over and over through the clockworks of time? These are questions Old Pete never once asked in his long life. But...

In the near future, the world of entertainment has reached new heights in the art of diversion for the elite of humanity. Adam Kimball has signed on for a high-tech adventure vacation reserved only for the select few. When something goes wrong in the process, Kimball gets much more than he bargained for - and finds himself plummeting through a digital nightmare and into a shocking reconstruction of reality.

Short story, Science-fiction. In the near future, humanity has lost the race to save its home world. The Earth has become too toxic to support life. In a last, desperate attempt to perpetuate the species, humans have created a vast, sealed city with which they hope to colonize a new world, some distant day. For one man inside this city, the spirit of freedom overrides everything else - perhaps even his own survival.

Fiction. Short Story. Science Fiction, horror. Black Glass tells the story of a worker in the not-too-distant future by the name of Henry Jones. Henry receives a mysterious letter in the mail one day, a letter with ominous overtones. The message from Head Office: clear out your desk, you are no longer relevant. What follows next is an anxiety-dripping slide into a world where to become obsolete is to perish. Thwarted at every turn, Henry tries desperately to cling to a life that once seeme...

In this short story, we follow a young drifter as he wanders across the great northern tundra lands with his dog, picking up odd jobs when he can. When he finds himself in the small, wind-swept mining town of Fort Nichols, population 180, he befriends the locals and has the time of his life. Slowly though, the truth of this little village is revealed. What unfolds next is the most outlandish series of events in his life, culminating in in a struggle of good versus evil! .

This short story peers into a world not often seen. It is a snapshot of a life in the tree-felling business. 'Lightride' follows a three man work-crew, Murphy, Steve and Mike, into the woods for a standard day at the office. The close-knit team have been cutting trees for a long time together. It's just another shift in the woods, when the unthinkable happens.

Short story, Science Fiction. It is the year 2034. The world is seething with the folly of humanity; overcrowded, toxic, and on the brink of apocalyptic war - our species is set to plummet into extinction. Mankind has lost all hope, and now stands at the threshold of annihilation and oblivion. Nothing short of a miracle can save the doomed species. And a miracle is exactly what is about to happen.

Science fiction. Short story. Deep in space, there are gardens. The humanity of tomorrow have found a use for the tumbling asteroids of the Kuiper Belt - deep space farms. On the surface of these asteroids are cultivated a crop essential to the survival of the species. Much of the operation is done by robotics and automated machinery, all controlled by a supercomputer on the moon Titan. Though a marvel of technological efficiency, a human caretaker is still a necessity. On one regular insp...

At a quiet restaurant in an unnamed city a man and a woman sit across from each other. She is distraught. He is quickly drunk. Neither can stop thinking of what they've just seen - a deed so brutal, so terrible as to leave the woman in tears. Was it a moment of meaningless urban violence or was it something more?From the author of the dark short story Hide and Seek and the bestselling novella The Sickroom comes a tale about the things we do for love and the devili...

This true story about chasing a burglary suspect through a housing project has an unusual ending for the police officers and the suspect. First in the Nine Lives Series of short stories.

the book Love Opens the Valley of Emptiness is in six books. book one dan is introducing free to the public, in four parts. here is part two, part one was released last week and is about 5 pagers below part two. dan will be releasing a book about every 10 days. each part of book one, here, consist of eleven poems each. 44 poems in all contained in book one.books 2-6 each will contain over 3500 words of poetry all by dan ferguson as well. dan has been writing sense his early teens. h...