An unexpected phone call from an old colleague prompts Dustin Cofield, Elfsterminator, to investigate a local business that may be a key player in the world-wide Elfin conspiracy against Christmas and...

Sylvie, a spirit-touched empath who operates on the shadier side of the law, joins an old associate on a revenge job against a scummy financier.  A fun job, promising a good payoff. She had no idea the...

Lucien Bandemyr, Crown Prince of the Qorathi Empite, looked forward to adventure, excitement, and glory from his first campaign outside of the Empire's star systems. Instead he found frustration, and...

As an operative for the Qoarthi Empire's Internal Security Service, Manolo Garces investigates and brings to justice all manner of plots against the Empire's integrity.No villain ever escapes his grasp.Until...

Jake wants nothing more than to live where his parents and grandparents lived and died, to make a life and build on their legacy in the world they terraformed into existence.If only his brother would...

Jeff had to get away, to hike in the woods after a fight with his brother. He never expected to stumble onto Miss Melody's Cafe there, in the middle of nowhere. Or that the cafe would hold answers to...

Gregory recently took his vows in the monastery. Agnes recently became a nun.When they meet at a Christmas midnight mass, each face a choice—be true to their vows or be together.But maybe they can do...

A death in a nightclub. Completely random, with no link to any person, or any motive.Or was it?Drops In The Storm is a short crime story.

As payment for his sins, in particular against Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones must ride his faithful steed Daredevil through the woods around his former home of Tarry Town every night, for eternity.No forgiveness....

Hank loves his bar, and it's done well for him over the years. He made it into his own little paradise and never wanted anything more.Until some unexpected—and shocking—visitors came knocking one Thursday...

Two thieves seek a valuable prize from within the kingdom's Museum of History.But what they find there is more than they bargained for.Revelator is a short fantasy story.

A man imprisoned on a sailing vessel finds the ship sinking around him. How to escape, and even if he does, how to survive the aftermath of a shipwreck?Sea Legs is a short adventure story at sea.

A fortune in gold in a subterranean vault that no one can access.No one except Jordan and his crew.It's the perfect job, one that will set him up for life. As long as nothing goes wrong.Drilling For Gold...

Few things in life give Lilly more pleasure than playing her clarinet and making beautiful music.  She never dreamed music might have a magic of its own, or that her band recital might become a battleground...

A record of a Zombie's rant about the trials and tribulations of his life as a dis-respected member of the Undead. A Chat Before Dinner is a darkly humorous, 2,600 word short story.

On the run from their past, swordsmen Raedrick Baletier and Julian Hinderbrook search for a place of refuge where they can start over.That search sends them through a remote mountain valley called Glimmer...

When Jacob wakes to find himself bound to a chair in an unfamiliar room, he fears the worst.What he discovers in that room will put his worst fears to shame.The Memory Of Justice is a 3,000 word science...

Piter's honeymoon was off to a splendid start. He and his bride had a fancy bridal suite on a luxury spaceliner, and had their own private view of the most beautiful aurora in the known galaxy.Then it...

A single sock missing from the wash – the source of universal frustration and untold family bickering. Justine never gave thought to what happened to those missing socks, and where they went. Until the...

An abandoned bag, filled with money and with what appears to be a bloody handprint on the side, upends Harry's relaxing day at the beach.Beach Bags is a 5,000 word short mystery.

Larian's comrade-in-arms and friend, Jiles, received a family heirloom in the mail: a pendant from his deceased grandfather. Then he lost it during a night of liberty in Mirasol, a town near their Company's...

Jared Tolburt twice almost cost Raedrick Baletier and Julian Hinderbrook their lives: once when he turned on them while they were fleeing the Army, and again when he unwittingly led a group of bandits...

An assassin and his partner embark on the biggest job of their careers. The payment if they succeed is enough to set them up for life, potentially allowing the assassin to get out of the business and...

Eighty-two light years away on Alcor Five, great flying beasts called Reptus Volans, which closely resemble the dragons of European legend, sit at the top of the food chain. They are so dangerous and...

Intelligence told the High Command that the Mar Tabban, arch enemies of the Citizens' Army, had moved into the territory garrisoned by Larian's Regiment. In response, the Regimental Commander sent the...

During an alien invasion, a lone Naval Special Warfare Operator behind enemy lines has to rescue a group of civilians.Final Extraction is a 6,100 word military science fiction short story.

Someone replaced a little girl with an android made to be an exact duplicate of her.Detectives Ben Mulkahie and Devin Abrams have to find out who did it, and why, before other kids suffer the same fate.

While on a run through a park with his best buddy John, Harry the dog makes a grim discovery in the woods.Give A Dog A Bone is a 3,200 word doggy mystery.

It sucks being the god of malinvestment, the force behind economic downturns.Tom has been trying to use his position to shape the world for the better for as long as he can remember.  Trying, and failing....

Welcome to a grand adventure: a quest to create fifty-two stories in a year, one for each week, and collect them into five collections. This is the first collection in that quest, filled with ten stories...