In the latter half of the nineteenth century, Cain is a gunfighter known as a leading cause of ghost towns. His desire for a peaceful life is impossible given his sordid past and his inability to remember the bad things he believes he did. Now, his friends from a Palouse tribe have begged him to right a wrong brought about by the US Cavalry. Indebted to the tribes, Cain rides to confront the Cavalry. And the demons of his past ride beside him.

Seran is a scout fighting on a distant planet in the ongoing war between robots and humans. When a battleship falls, an errant process compels her to fight through the human forces and rescue a survivor. Although she sustains heavy damage, she is drawn to the dying robot. Her attraction leads her away from the protocols of machine society, and to the horizon of evolution.

Sometime ago I embarked on a cross country adventure with my dad to hunt pheasant in North Dakota. Starring grumpy old men, wet dogs, whiskey, and unexpected circumstances.This is a short travelogue of about 4,500 words.

Life is short and brutal in the apocalyptic wasteland. Skag Murdet culls herds for slaughter to help sustain the population on razor-thin margins of available sustenance. Everyone has a duty to perform. Everyone has a quota to fill.Parental Warning: This story contains imagery which may be disturbing to young readers.

"Rich in its epic proportions, it transcends the usual science fiction tropes for a refreshing imaginative world." IndieReader.Two centuries from now humanity is facing perilous dangers from Earth to the Mars colony and Earth's survival lies in the balance. A young Bolivian discovers a shard of alien technology that guides him into the center of the action. He searches for answers as he is caught up in political intrigue, mining company greed, and cartel violence. With help from th...

In an apocalyptic afterlife, where scripture is perverted by the morally corrupt, a young woman becomes the eighth wife to the prophet of a celestial family. Following the marriage ceremony, she gains entry to the family's homestead where its high stone walls and wards protect them from the waste. But, by taking her to be his wife, the prophet invites someone unexpected into his loving embrace. Celebrate the Everlasting, for there the righteous find tranquility and love. And to those undes...

Derry Brown looks through an otherworldly lens. In Derry's warped sense of reality, a mundane architectural review takes place in a bleak future ruled by high-tech racing. With the executive assistant protesting the race sponsors in the hallway, and a spectacular crash taking place between a marker and an eraser on his whiteboard, Derry has to try to maintain his sanity long enough to ask the most important question: Is spending money on this code change worth saving twelve cents?S...

To what lengths would a person go to heal a dying Earth? Nora graduates from school and is predisposed to an unexpected and unsustainable type of work. Angry at not being able to pursue her dreams, she reaches out to her peers in search of other options and possible meaning. Will she do what is necessary to save the planet?This is a short story of approximately 5,700 words.

The disappearance of Emperor Micah One in a rift in space-time, witnessed by billions, spawned a powerful religion. Now, two hundred years later, the Micahnian Acolytes have taken over the Empire and ushered in a dark age. Rebels in the asteroids are ready to strike back. But a Novice Acolyte and a shard of alien technology complicate the plans. "Through the Rift," a stand-alone science fiction adventure, continues the story of Micah Quispe and the strange shards that he discovered. Approx...

Vincent Wagner is a soldier for the Panthera Corporation. His mind has been chemically and behaviorally altered to make him a more effective soldier. Soldiers for the Panthera Corporation have no memories of what transpired during their duty. For Vincent, his duty leaves him with the impression that he is a lion in a vast meadow, moving and fighting with perfect ferocity and no long-term memory. But then he wakes up.

Jideon de Rosa is a combat cyber-medic with the Spanish Legion. After his ex-wife takes their daughter, he tracks them to North America. He finds his wife missing and his daughter suffering from a drug. Any neuro chip may activate a computer virus infecting her body, transforming the pharmaceutical into something terrible. Jideon has less than a day to find the cure, and will ignore rules of engagement to save his daughter.

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