A gang of street kids, an anonymous radio announcer, a detective from the future, a presidential assassination attempt and a frequently mistaken narrator all play a part in this jumble of... More > introductions to an open-source novel inspired by the works of Macedonio Fernandez. Cover painting by Delma Soult.< Less
Pearson Holmes disappeared a long time ago, leaving behind a potentially valuable safety deposit box. Freddy the Freegan is the first to stumble across the mystery, but soon a whole cast of... More > characters are out to find the key and claim the treasure before time runs out and the contents are forfeit to the state. Who will solve the riddle of the Squatter with a Lexus?< Less
On a dare, Gian Carlo Spallanzini set out to discover the deepest darkest secret of a person picked at random. He had no idea what he was getting into. Even a fat, bearded know-it-all ought to know... More > better than to leap before you look. Add a crystal ball, a foul-mouthed parrot, and a cranky atheist talk show host and you’ll never guess the outrageous mystery behind the orange car with stripes.< Less
Sharad LeMaster ran away from his own cult, and tried to hide from his followers by taking a desk job in a motel in the middle of nowhere, but when a certain lazy ghost from his past reappears,... More > Sharad is lured into a haunted house and becomes the proud possession of the witch Eugenia, and gets caught between rival black market magic potion dealers in their fight over a girl who just happens to possess the most perfect skull ever destined to become a shrunken head.< Less
Four people are selected, seemingly at random, by an invisible being who communicates to them through wild animals. They are told they must go somewhere, find something, take it somewhere and do... More > something with it. This is all they know. The thing, whatever it is, could be anything, and it could be anywhere. As for the chosen ones, they have other problems. Two are bitter rivals in an endless and seemingly pointless game, another is a novice, newly torn from her everyday life, while the fourth has been an old man for much too long, for all of them are immortal, exiled with nothing into an infinite forest by a world that cannot tolerate their existence. As they struggle to work together to achieve a goal that none can even imagine, failure might just be their only option.< Less
Four people are selected, seemingly at random, by an invisible being who communicates to them through wild animals. They are told they must go somewhere, find something, take it somewhere and do... More > something with it. This is all they know. The thing, whatever it is, could be anything, and it could be anywhere. As for the chosen ones, they have other problems. Two are bitter rivals in an endless and seemingly pointless game, another is a novice, newly torn from her everyday life, while the fourth has been an old man for much too long, for all of them are immortal, exiled with nothing into an infinite forest by a world that cannot tolerate their existence. As they struggle to work together to achieve a goal that none can even imagine, failure might just be their only option.< Less
A collection of short fictions, including the complete Sexy Teenage Vampires trilogy, The Futile Epikles and other characters, and several previously unpublished stories.
From their humble beginnings as inventors of a handheld device with basic mind control capabilities, the tech-folk behind World Weary Avengers, Incorporated moved on to develop such gadgets as one... More > capable of recording an individual's very personality and replaying it back into another person. Devices with even more sinister potential are in the pipeline. Only a small band of software quality assurance engineers stands between these audacious inventors and your very soul. Would you trust such as these with the future of mankind? I didn't think so.
In 'World Weary Avengers', the beginning of the end, old friends Tom and Chris decide to change the world by a radically simple means. In 'Ledman Pickup', one of Tom's rare new devices is let loose in the wild, as the gadget seeks to make its own way in the world on its own terms. 'In Constant Contact' continues the saga of inventions gone wrong, when always-online 'professional friends' lead to nothing but trouble.< Less
They weren't exactly the crew the President had in mind when he announced his plan to build a permanent base on the moon so the Chinese wouldn't do it first, but there they were, a boring collection... More > of peaceful, happy settlers who couldn't even get a decent reality TV show rating. Life was perfectly dull until the new guy arrived. Now if they could only find out who he was and where he'd come from< Less
Argus Kirkham, age 39, finds himself dragged unwillingly into an inexplicable situation when an old friend, international correspondent Sapphire Karadjian, is assigned to cover a strange mystery, a... More > volcanic sinkhole which has swallowed an entire football stadium, and from which a weird and nameless young girl has emerged, hair and clothes on fire, with a message for Argus. Book Three of the Dragon City Trilogy, following Snapdragon Alley and Freak City.< Less
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