I drank until I was full, then I drank more for those waiting for us back home.There are Elders, and then there are Drinkers.As a Drinker on his frozen home planet, our hero travels long, painful miles--more each year--across the frozen tundra. Through fields of sharp black rocks and over endless, featureless blue ice.His mission: gather water from the shrinking oceans, and carry it back to his waiting people. In his belly.If he su...

The ship and the planet were his… for now.As a man with a past he'd rather forget, Jaret Lazarus cares little for history.But at the present, he must lead his ten-creature crew of alien conscripts onto a dying planet to clear the place of any "remainders" still living there.On the mission, Jaret finds that he can't run from his past in this hard-edged, prize-winning science fiction story.

Some kids are just born with it…1974 turned out to be a helluva year for Augie Shepherd. A rollercoaster of highs and lows.He almost lost his best friend, Ozzy. He also lost his lucky aluminum penny—one of just a few created that year. His lucky charm.On the first day of the new year, 1975, Augie pays his old buddy Ozzy a visit. And he meets Ozzy's newborn son for the first time. Augie's godson.Their first interaction is nearly... magical. ...

Sometimes you have to spin up a little trouble...On remote Ocracoke Island, Melissa can feel her dream of owning her own pottery shop slipping away from her. Just like her mother did earlier that year.At the same time, Rob visits the island on a mission to help someone he loves. What he didn't plan for are all the ghosts he keeps encountering, every time he turns around.Melissa and Rob circle around each other, getting closer and closer, until they...

She was taken, and only Bim and Hank can find her...The unlikely duo of a big white dude, Bim Mayer, and Hank "Hanky J" Johnson, a small, super-athletic black man, are on the hunt for a missing teenage girl.Nobody within a hundred miles of where she went missing has a clue of where she is, but Bim and Hanky J hold a few tricks up their sleeves. Hanky J never misses a detail, while Bim has April Mae's charm bracelet. Using his strange, unexplainable power, ...

A hunt for ginseng takes a dark and dangerous turn...Ozzy immediately regrets taking his hapless brother Harry on his hunt for ginseng in the woods. But he forgets all about his brother when he finds the mother lode of 'sang plants.Unfortunately, his brother finds something even more sinister and problematic in the same woods. Decisions must be made, and both brothers must what the right thing to do is when there's nobody watching...A prequel story to the F...

An early misadventure of Augie and Ozzy!On a chilly day in late March of 1974, Ozzy Mayer decides to take back Mayer Mountain with the help of his buddy Augie Shepherd.These two lifelong buddies, now in their early twenties, find themselves facing the harsh reality of growing up. A girlfriend with some surprising news, a set of uncaring parents, and a lack of funds on weekly, if not daily basis.As usual, Ozzy has a plan for making things better. And--as usu...

Those who whisper are lost. For now…They claim they want to save the world. They came to town looking for recruits. And they managed to split up Hank Johnson and Bim Mayer from the Finder Team.With help from a trio of friends, old and new, the three remaining members of the team begin a frantic hunt for their missing friends.A hunt that might require the use of something—or someone—more… supernatural. Someone named Tommy Roling, a young man from Io...

Sometimes those who can't be found just might not be lost…In the remote mountain town of Boone, North Carolina, Hank "Hanky J" Johnson and Bim Mayer find people that nobody else can. All thanks to Hanky J's brains and Bim's ability to psychically connect to other people.Their skills get put to the test when a group of elderly people go missing. All of whom used to teach at nearby Appalachian State University.And each missing person shares a connection to a ...

They're not gonna grow up without a fight…1974. Ozzy's going to be a father. Augie's got a huge house to build. Just a few years out of high school, neither of them want to work this hard. They'd rather live outside the law and stick it to the Man, man.Over the course of this turbulent year, lifelong friends Ozzy and Augie have no choice but to face adulthood.It might take more than a little "hoodoo voodoo", a surly pregnant wife, a few ghosts, str...

With Augie Shepherd, no good deed ever goes unpunished...When an old man tries to cut down an ancient chestnut nearly ten feet wide, odds are the tree is going to win that battle. In this case, mountain man Augie Shepherd nearly cuts his leg off in the process. Only to be saved by a big man wearing too many layers of clothes for the summer, and big black boots.The accident sets off a series of events in the remote town of Boone, North Carolina. And Bim Mayer and Hanky J Joh...

The prodigal son returns home... and picks up a new chore.William Koopman could never get off the family farm, while his younger brother John Koopman had no other place to go.As adults, the two brothers find themselves living together again, to their dismay.John must not only straighten up his life, but provide for the one hundred and eighty baby chickens his father just bought home for John to raise on their farm.A story featuring one of the main c...