The Yellow Road Not Taken is NOT your momma's Wonderful Wizard of Oz. If you're looking for the heartwarming, sugary simplicity of the original L.Frank Baum story, run. Run now. Run far away. If you're ready for a happily acerbic, satirical sendup in which the Cowardly Lion suffers from crippling anxiety, the Tin Woodsman is a psychopath, and the Scarecrow is gloriously, undeniably brainless, then you're in the right place. If you want a story about how three hopeless mis...

Food.Shelter.Digitized life after death.Companionship.Identity.Love without monsters getting in the mix.We all have needs. We all know that, too, we just don't know what it means to say so. Generally speaking. Day in, day out, we mine a lot of gold about what it means to be who we've decided we think we are. And that's what this collection is about. What do we need? How do we find it? What would we do to keep it? It's strange, it's w...

In a country in which teachers are demonized as incompetent, where everyone wants quality schools but no one wants to pay for them, what becomes of those who stand for principle, who know what to do to teach young minds, but are prevented from doing so by their own supposed leaders? Guardians at the Gate is a satirical examination of the plight of public education. It is a no-holds-barred gut shot to the myths and underhanded purposes that threaten this uniquely American instituti...

In the mid-twenty-first century, the United States goes through a fundamental change. White people are now only the largest minority in America. Will they surrender power to the coalition to follow, or fight "to keep what's theirs"? So begins a terrible, violent game of chess played for the heart and soul of a nation.Welcome to the world of Steve Tallman, the driven producer of a celebrated news program watched by avid millions over TV, the Net, and cellular. He comes across a docu...

NIGHTWATCH, Book 6Clayton Hostetter, US Marshal, makes his living rousting out range agitators, fence cutters, them that mutilate the cattle and make the circles in the crops, and general uncivilized folk. Just now, he's ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt himself to bring in Ehnrich Boehm, aka The Dark Man, the most ornery outlaw you ever did know. Wanted for murder, mayhem, terrorism, and conspiracy to destroy the eighteen contiguous universes (also blasphemy and vandalism), ...

NIGHTWATCH, Book 7FIONA STREET is back as the US government's most dangerous black ops agent! She's saved a nation from political gangsters. She's helped save a foreign universe from destruction. Now the government's most super of super-spies builds a special ops team to grapple with menaces no one can imagine. But those enemies aren't sleeping. A terrible entity from beyond our universe sows doubt through Fiona's spy network, leading it to distrust and hunt her. Fiona's own people...

Christmas is good cheer, snowmen, nog, and family get-togethers. Often, those reunions are strained. How much more tense might the holiday dinner become if you add space travel, time dilation, and alien influences into the mix? Charlese Tilbrenner and Bernie Oldman, heroes of Stephan Michael Loy's upcoming novel Galactic Geographic, are about to find out how twisted reunions can get as Charlese takes her man to meet the family, and Dad. A heartwarming comedy on the true meaning of Christma...

NIGHTWATCH, Book 4When Sally Reiser joined the mysterious network, she did so to protect her handicapped child. But the network that kept them safe has been infiltrated, its communications disrupted, trust compromised, and people replaced with invisible agents. The organization has taken up a sinister new purpose, to murder Sally, the seer of God, and also her eight-year-old autistic son. How far and fast will this mother run to escape a fate fueled by fanaticism and decreed a thou...

In Conroy, that strange small town at the fringe of reason, Christmas can't be as simple as presents, nog, and a roaring fire. It's loneliness, fugitive girls, and the ghastly plans of a shadowy corporate monster. Chris Snow, local philosopher and counter boy at a seedy hardware store, joins forces with Frank Keith, now a patrolman for the Conroy Police, to prevent an abomination against human rights grown in their own back forty. Along with perennial screw-up Clarence Mumfry, the two find...

NIGHTWATCH, Book 3Fiona Street is a black ops operative for the National Security Agency, or at least she was until they temporarily transfered her to a new investigative arm of the Special Prosecutor's office. There, Fiona is a confused fish-out-of-water, a mission-oriented soldier thrust into the quagmire of politics. Then the other shoe drops. The special prosecutor wants her to undergo a surgical procedure that would meld her mind to that of an alley cat. Fiona's skills combine...

Death is abroad in ancient Egypt. The god Set has murdered his brother Osiris, incurring the wrath and vengeance of Isis, the dead god's wife. With Set's vile act, the pantheon of Egyptian myth is split into opposing forces, those who maintain the status quo and those who seek to upend the traditional roles of immortals. As part of this new revolution, mortal men have been sent on quests to find the corporeal flesh of Orisis, which Set scattered to the corners of the Earth. They seek out t...

Walter Cheatham is a detective of sorts, a finder of lost things. Today, Christmas, he's busy finding a kidnapped ten-year-old girl. Time is a factor, for this child is invited to her captors' Christmas dinner – as the entrée. In a strange and marvelous dystopian world where death and horror are the everyday backsplash of a dull, gray existence, Walter must learn what truly matters when not even life has value. Walter Cheatham's Cannibal Christmas is an engaging holiday story for science f...