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...

The grand adventure continues!  This collection of ten short stories completes the second step in Michael Kingswood's quest to create fifty-two new works of fiction in the year 2023.  With stories ranging...

The midwatch patrol in a surveillance and reconnaissance skiff supporting a combat vessel of the Icaran Confederation Navy tends to be uneventful, an exercise in tedium. Until it isn't. For Joyride 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...

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....

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

A young woman's quick trip to the liquor store turns unexpectedly exciting, and even more dangerous.Abe's Liquors is a 3,000 word crime story.

A sword-for-hire quests to defeat an evil Necromancer.A young girl discovers that music has a magic of its own.An FBI interrogator discovers a chilling conspiracy.A shipwreck unleashes a supernatural...

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...

From a place beyond reality, it comes to consume the world.For Barry, getting a transfer to a new position as an electrician aboard the Ketcham Space Station summed up his professional life perfectly:...

A mysterious stranger upsets life in a quiet bookstore.A police negotiator finds more than he bargained for on his latest case.A quick trip to the liquor store becomes exciting.  And dangerous.Private...

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...

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...

A stunning robbery threatens to bring Lydelton's economy to its knees, and constables Raedrick Baletier and Julian Hinderbrook must find the culprits.A team of Royal Marshalls is in town to help.  But...

A fateful meeting in deep space. A journey to a distant world to hunt the ultimate game: Dragons. Two young soldiers search for a lost family heirloom. Honeymoon bliss turns into a fight for survival...

The people live on the island, and the gods protect it.  The Beast waits on the beach, eager to ensnare the unwary.When outsiders come and disrupt that balance, Yili must find a way to protect his family,...

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...

New customers come through Popper's bookstore all the time.  But one of them, an average man in every way, has David very concerned that he intends more than just buying books.Popper's is a 4,100 word...

Doctor Luisa Melendez works as an interrogator, using a revolutionary, highly effective, and controversial technique.She never dreamed the technique might be used for nefarious ends.  Facilitated Interrogation...

It's three hours until the wedding of Raedrick Baletier to Lani Millens, and Melanie Klemins doesn't have a present for them.  Or rather, she did.  But she lost it.Now it's up to Julian Hinderbrook to...

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...