Stories List

The shock troups shock troups feared!

How can you make life and death decisions when you can't even agree on a version of reality?

Imagine a community so paranoid the notion of a driveway three-point-turn is alien.

In an apartment with all the trappings of poverty, a demon pushes for the ultimate decision

The tale of the hunted in a fallen society so scary monsters seem calming.

Not all angels have wings.  Some have whiskers.

A glitch in the matrix, or just seeing things?

What are we to do about all those nuisense people?

Within a unique setting there is a unique person in a very strange place.

A temple that cares for those so disabled that they cannot look after themselves.

Join the twin Witches, Yeta and Yater, as they venture out to find a demon to seed their perfect child.

Story contains mature subject matter.

Subsistance farmers tended the lands of their lord for generations, paying the tithe for its use and for protection from bandits.  However, when there is a tithe increase due to threats of war with another landlord, life gets harder for Nara and her husband, Koltin.  Pressure compounded by crop failure and the arrival of Renti, their first child.  Follow their struggles as Nara is forced to pay the ultimate price.

Iris is a computer programmer working for a megacorp, living a grey life in a grey world, set not too far distant in time from this one and readers will recognize it immediately - AI rules, alternative realities are available at the flick of a switch. Cash has disappeared. Food is tasteless pap which needs AR to be palatable; and Iris hates it all even as she lives with it. And then, one day, a song comes into her life and things begin to change. Hard on the heels of the song comes Reggie, and with him - unbelievably - love. One by one the bastions fall to the power of music and love. Iris rides the crest of the wave, sometimes directing it, sometimes all but swamped by it. Quantum Songstress by Shannon Frances Smith will take you into Iris's world so seamlessly that you will feel all her highs and lows with her. Part thriller, part dystopian warning and all love story, this is a rollercoaster ride you won't want to get off.

When Lyn’s pilgrimage to the High Temple ends in disaster, she prays for her death. In a surprise twist of fate, however, she is tasked to escort the enigmatic youth Kora home and back. On their journey, Lyn questions whether she will do as her mother expects and become a nun or whether she’ll follow her deepest desires and choose a path of adventure. Along the way, the duo travels through fantastical vistas, from the land of nature to the land of the dead, fighting mythical beasts, learning the true value of friendship and loyalty, and maybe even falling in love. An action-packed story, Champion of Seasons examines what is expected versus what the heart craves.

Coming December 25th

All Helen wanted to do was tend her lord's garden.  So when inquisitors destroy her small village life looking for 'witches' she meets the enigmatic Mel.

Through a burning forest and throguh the deadlands they make their way to the Temple of the Highgod.  Join by a diverse cast of fellow travellers they trek to plea for sanity and mercy.

Eirajdine. Volrodrais of Sinikas. The only male of the Vauli, and a bull of a man. The King of the Dead Desert. Prideful and vain with his own ambitions for expanding into the rest of Anataya.

Illiana. Daughter of Lord of Nutcher. Wife of Lord Grenadine, an old man only wedded to her for the promise of an heir. A promise leading to frustration as, after so much rutting, Illiana remains without child. A frustration pushing the Lord to divorce his young bride, leaving Illiana to be sent to a nunnery, deemed barren.

When the Lord Grenadine dissuades King Anataya from granting audience to Eirajdine, insulting him and his people, it brings out the vindictive side of the racial stud of the desert people. While capable of brutal violence, the Volrodrais decides using his masculine wiles to seduce Lady Grenadine, aka Illiana, would be sweeter revenge. An experienced lover more than able to place fruit within a womb.

When Abigale inherits her uncle's curiosity shop she is thrust into the world of the occult. Where strange rituals are performed and cursed antiquities change hands. In this, she finds an entity of untold power. A primeval being of aeons past shouting to be freed. An old tome acting as a latched door opened a crack, outlining a rite requiring exotic ingredients and acts of questionable morals. He promises an answer to her family's dark secret in exchange for her help.

At the same time, his curious nature gives him want for what little he can fit through the crack in planes to explore Abigale's body and allow her to slip into worlds swallowed by his immensity.

Follow her on her journey to determine what she should do about the madness she stumbled into.