"Two Stories: Supernatural and Psychological Mysteries" comprises (obviously) two stories (approximately 9,700 words) that have elements of the psychological/supernatural mystery/thriller with an admixture of horror."A Helping Hand" . . .When you're a fast-failing organic farmer in New Hampshire, with a known termagant for a wife, an event like this – digging up a human hand in your potato patch – can be devastating to your small profits when the news gets out, especially s...

When first appearances turn out to be wrong . . .What happens when a far-flung mining expedition with an element of space exploration becomes a harrowing tale of survival and escape? Find out in the first brief novel in the series The Odyssey Affair, deftly blending science fiction, fantasy, and suspenseful thriller.Metallurgist and Mine Engineer, Second Class, Franklin Collier gets a lot more than he bargains for when he signs up for a surlenium mining job with Stellar Met...

What would you do if you discovered that your long-held dream was a cheat? If it turned out that the goal you had been pursuing almost all your life with everything you had was only a hollow deception after all?Michael Anders has to face this when he finally lays his hand on the brass ring.Like all of us, Michael Anders had a dream. Ever since he was a kid in junior rodeo, he dreamed of becoming a world-champion rodeo cowboy – riding bulls and bareback horses, scoring high,...

A Cautionary Tale about the Near Dystopian FutureJust a few years down the road, the new health-care plan is firmly entrenched. A new bill, Ethical Assessment of End-of Life Care, has also been enacted into law. And the authorities are ruthlessly implementing it throughout the land – no more medical resources wasted on the defective and dying, equitable distribution of quality medical care, no more lingering half-lives sustained by expensive machinery. The "thanatos solution" has a...

They give you just enough to keep you comfortable and quiet . . . if you're willing to put up with all the burdensome regulations and intrusions into your private life.And most people do. But is it worth it?At long last, William Oudeis didn't think so. But then it cost him everything.Or maybe he gained the only thing really worth having . . ."SlumberJoy, a global matress-manufacturing company, had its largest US plant in Doulosville, Oklahoma, where William ...

A look at what lies ahead in the era of pandemics and distrust . . .Are you being played? Maybe, maybe not. Just make sure that what you want for health and safety can't come back to bite you . . . as it did for this woman. She thought she was protecting her children. But the end result was a parent's worst nightmare.Be prepared. Download "For the Good of Society" – a short story of approximately 3,000 words.Prescient, prophetic, or just deranged? I'm not sure yet, ...

"Two Tales of Horror and the Paranormal" is a two-story bundle of approximately 9,600 words. In it you'll see that things aren't always as they seem – that there's a lot more to some humdrum, everyday lives than the people living them ever dared to imagine. And the implications are, well, sometimes frightening . . ."A Helping Hand""It's not every day you find a human hand while digging potatoes. But that's exactly what happened to Leonard Johnson on a Saturday morning not lo...

"It was that most loathsome of all things: an uncanny, routine-disrupting inconvenience and anomaly."That's what, as the result of an unforeseen event, unexpectedly invades and upsets Elmore Wiggins' safely ordered life. For Elmore had never reckoned on the paranormal or the preternatural. But now that he's had his accident, he is "seeing" certain events in the near future – including his own (although he doesn't know it yet).Despite all his efforts to live a routine, plann...

"It's not every day you find a human hand while digging potatoes. But that's exactly what happened to Leonard Johnson on a Saturday morning not long ago." That's how this quirky little story begins.When you're a fast-failing organic farmer in New Hampshire, with a known termagant for a wife, an event like this can be devastating to your small profits when the news gets out – especially since that ancient hand has peculiar "qualities."This discovery sets off a chain of inexo...

A new bride and party girl who marries merely to escape her former life. A naïve, solicitous husband who sees no harm in an ordered life. A honeymoon hike on a mountain trail. And a tragic outcome.Murder, manslaughter, a misunderstanding gone horribly wrong, or sheer accident? Perception is everything, isn't it? In any case, justice has a strange way of working itself out."Over the Edge" is a short story – a psychological thriller and a tale of horror – of approximately 3,7...

"Two Weird Tales of the Dystopian Present and Future" is a two-story bundle of approximately 6,600 words – two prescient short stories that treat of what is and what may be. Both scenarios will likely come to pass, and neither will be very pleasant. So be warned . . . be prepared . . . and watch."Eve's Refusal"Eve is a dirty, mentally challenged homeless woman who stands on a street corner in her rags and "prophesies." But she knows exactly what she possesses – what most of ...

Just a few years down the road, the new health-care plan is firmly entrenched. A new bill, Ethical Assessment of End-of Life Care, has also been enacted into law. And the authorities are ruthlessly implementing it throughout the land – no more medical resources wasted on the defective and dying, equitable distribution of quality medical care, no more lingering half-lives sustained by expensive machinery. The "thanatos solution" has arrived.But there are, as always, unexpected ramif...