Cities are breeding grounds for possibilities… Almost anything and everyone has a chance to be good, bad, heroic, evil, mundane, and magical. And most things, and people, are hybrids. Consider the countless opportunities for people to develop unique, innovative solutions to their problems; consider the challenge of surviving in the chaos of a teeming city where survival is a challenge; consider the opportunities for complete failure; and consider the options available. The urban environment is not forgiving and you should count on survivors using whatever tools they have at hand. You even need to expect magic. Always expect magic, even if there might be a cruder, more expedient, more obvious way of doing things, because witches are people.

Everyone has a theory about luck, wanting to attract good luck and keep bad away. When you make your living riding wild horses or, even worse, crazed bulls in a rodeo, you know that good luck isn’t just important — it is essential. If you could ever get a handle on it, maybe you’d figure out how to play things so you came out ahead, at least for a while. A story of loss and recovery and learning to take things as they come.

Stories are timeless and some travel too well for comfort A writer traveling in Asia settles down in a remote guesthouse in the off season. He needs a cheap and quiet place to write a crime story based on one he heard while working in a boatyard in the Caribbean. He’s got an idea of how to weave together the tale of a murderer who escaped prison and how he rebuilt a boat in Trinidad and started stealing. When a bar girl takes an interest in his work, even making suggestions about how he can make the story more interesting to people, things around him get intriguing. When he spins out the story, just because the bar girl wants to hear it, fiction and reality blur together in a curious combination. And the outcome changes everything.

How would you know when the last of anything is gone? Everything has an expiration date, a point that it simply is no more. Most of the time we aren’t even aware we’ve reached that time until we look around and see that our era has ended, our favorite ice cream flavor is no longer made, we can’t get a telephone that doesn’t connect to the internet, or the last duck is gone. This is a story about two people, quite like us, living in another time, a difficult time, possibly in another place, but one that looks a lot like this one might become not far down the road of time.

Living on the run is a hard grind. Even when you decide to hide in a tropical paradise it wears you down. Getting off that treadmill is tricky and sometimes you need outside help. Sherry Proper is willing to do a lot to change her fugitive status, but she needs to have something to offer. A meeting in a beach bar with a man who wants to bring down one of her enemies might give her that chance. If she can give him what he wants, or make him think she can. A short story. A transition.

Some things are so small… Yet some of the most important things, the really big things can seem too small to notice. Billions of events play out under our noses. Small but significant. And some are small enough to alter the world. A speculative story where the unseen and seen meet.

He stands out from the crowd. A gunfighter can't just pass through a town like normal people do. He'll find his reputation precedes him. When a saloon girl expresses a need for a paid killer—well, life in a small town can get complicated for a fella quick. Especially when the bullets start to fly. A western short story. This story was first published in Frontier Tales in July 2002. If you like Westerns, check them out and see lots of good stories.

He thought he was through with special ops... But Martin's brother is in jail in Venezuela--charged with murder. Proving his innocence means dealing with the police, a mysterious and gorgeous woman lawyer, a vicious gringo, a seemingly affable drug lord, and a guy named Raul. And every one of them would much rather Martin just turned around and went home. It's a good thing Ugly Bill is on his way. Follow Martin's fast-paced adventures in the Caribbean. Get a copy now!

Imagine a future world that pushes magic into the fringes of respectability. Using logic and reason, avoiding superstition is the only way humanity can make progress — morally and ethically. Imagine a future world that pushes science into the fringes of respectability. The ability to sense, to intereact with unseen forces has become the only way humanity can make progress — morally and ethically. There is a balance between those forces, magic and science, but it is unstable and unsteady. Attitudes change. A compelling short story of a fantastic future world dancing in the light of the polarization of those two forces. It’s a world Harlan Ellison or Rod Serling might find normal, even comfortable in how out of joint it is.

How did that work out? The world isn’t happy with what technology has provided to the world. A backlash, a relapse into darker days is seen as a good thing. That won’t stop people from trying to rediscover what’s been lost and moving ahead. A history of the not-too-distant future of the former first world.