The Terran Federal Republic needs to establish communication with the alien Q'Tez Hegemony. Unfortunately, a decades old feud, caused by a mistake made by both sides, stands in their way. Both sides want the communication, but only one man knows the way forward.Hate Music is a 1 thousand word science fiction story with a humorous tone.

The 4th volume of new technologies for the game Fire On The Suns.

A compendium of technologies useful for the ground pounders - the poor benighted souls whose unenviable task it is to invade an alien world in the Fire On The Suns Universe. It's an ugly task, a bloody task, but the only way to hold ground - and it all falls to the Ground Pounders.

It's a contest of wills, with potentially deadly consequences. Can Jim hold off his six challengers, and does it mean he'll have to kill a kid in the process?

A military reconnaissance to determine why colonies are dropping off the map encounters a force it hadn't bargained for.

What defines "sportsmanship" when an alien species decides to rig the game?The Jareen,qwar want the planet Cabal, held by the Terran Federal Republic. Their allies, the Dwa'kim, have been enlisted to help them win it. They'll take any risk to do so short of open war.

Quentin Dallas, PI, has developed an allergy to nighttime. But when he's called out late in the evening to the scene of violent murder onboard a small boat he has little choice but cooperate.

Quentin Dallas, PI, attracts the weirdest cases in the city. But in a case where a PI needs the money and a client's property has gone missing, beggars can't really be choosers, even when your client may be far more powerful than he seems.

Quentin Dallas, PI, is used to fighting vampires, even werewolves and the occasional ghoul or banshee. But when he's faced with a pissed off extradimensional entity clawing its way into our universe it may be more than he can handle.

The grass, the undergrowth, the jungle in your backyard holds life as alien to us as anything science fiction ever imagined. But there are secrets there too and things still to be discovered - and feared.

A desperate chase through the woods at night by things out of a nightmare. For a lone Fish & Game warden there is only one choice - survival - if she can live long enough.Hunted is an 1800 word story of unrelenting horror and desperation.

How far is love willing to go in the face of catastrophe?Infection is a 5600 word science fiction/horror story.