Short Stories
Below are a number of short stories. They are available on Kindle and other formats, and some will be available in print as well. Some have won awards, others I wrote just for fun. Enjoy!
New Short Story!
Battle of Salga
One of history’s most unexpected cavalry charges!
historical fiction
Available in Ebook and Paperback
The Grove
A grove of trees is a peaceful place… at least, it should be.
Ebook $.99
Paperback $4.99
CLOUD CLIMBERS
Every storm is a goldmine, if you can get there before it rains.
Ebook $.99 on Kindle
Paperback $4.99
Behind the Iron Door: Steampunk Short Stories
5 Tales of Steam and Fantasy, plus a bonus Flash Fiction
Paperback Only - stories are sold individually as ebooks
$9.99 Order Online or from your favorite bookstore!
A Clockwork heart: A steampunk short story
Obadiah has the most broken heart in all the land. After months of tracking his sorrows, and weeks hard at work in his workshop, he devises a solution - a clockwork heart. Lilly, his assistant comes, every day to care, feed, and clean up after the town’s inventor. Today is a special day, the day he fixes his heart.
An award-winning short story.
$.99 on Kindle
Touch the Stars
Hobson Manning spent the last few summers helping Professor Teague build a rocketship with Mac and her ferret, Sprocket. Inspired by his favorite novel, and having watched the stars his whole life, Hobson is ready to depart. However, a few people fear this endeavor and will do anything to sabotage this journey.
$.99 on Kindle
Doomed flight of the majestic
Opportunity and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. The only question, which one lands face up. Rex Fielder wants to be a movie director. So, he sold everything he had to get on the maiden voyage of the world’s largest and first luxury airliner, The Majestic. Among the rich and famous passengers, he hopes to find something exciting to film, and prove to a studio he can make a movie. Now he only needs something worthy to film. When the chips are down, sometimes bad luck can be the best luck of all.
"The greatest aviation disaster movie ever made.” – Rex Fielder, director
$.99 on Kindle
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack
Lucy’s perfect evening is under attack, by the vile creature, Spring-Heeled Jack.
A horror/steampunk short stories inspired by a real legend.
$.99 on Kindle
The Dragon Slayer
By edict of the King the noble knight Sir Alric, newly returned from war, is sent into the mountains to rescue his lady-love from the clutches of a foul demon… but the vile dragon refuses to cooperate.
$.99 on Kindle
The Secret of Knotbridge Hill
Hidden for generations, a secret bound between two families.
Autumn has moved back to her hometown of Westridge, to the house on the outskirts of town that her family has owned for generations. An old homestead at the foot of haunted Knotbridge Hill. Everyone has heard the strange noises coming from the mysterious hill. During Dare Season, local high school kids try and spend the night, but Autumn keeps seeing the same young man, Drake, emerge from the forests surrounding the mound.
Autumn’s abusive mother is an extreme disciplinarian, but it feels like there’s another reason – repression of the power within and snuffing out who Autumn is supposed to become. When Autumn meets Drake, her world expands to the horizon as she learns the secret of Knotbridge Hill.
$.99 on Kindle
Europa: a short story
Today is the day! After years of working the numbers and triple checking everything, the Sol Exploration Consortium is prepared to melt through the icy surface of Europa. Now the entire solar system will be watching as EuropaPod, operated from the Mars facility, descends into the dark watery abyss. As an exo-oceanographer uses the remote probe to explore under the ice, what will they find, and will the company even let the discoveries see the light of day?
$.99 on Kindle
Battle of Salga
One of history’s most unexpected cavalry charges occurred in the War of Portuguese Succession
In 1581, the forces of King Philip I attacked the island of Terceira in the Azores archipelago. They rained cannon shot down on the parishes in a campaign to force allegiance to the Spanish king. The island resisted and the militia swelled. However, they couldn’t defend every bay at once and when conditions were right, the Castilian forces landed in Salga far from the militia. The enemy might have seized the island, but they didn’t expect every inhabitant to fight.
One of those stories of history that must be told.
$.99 ebook on Kindle
$4.99 paperback
Cloud Climbers - a short story
In a steampunk-inspired world of airships and angels, the cloud climbers make a living by harvesting the storms.
Every storm is a goldmine, if you can get there before it rains.
$.99 on Kindle
$4.99 paperback
Night Run - a short story
Her interview was 40 years ago but today’s her first day of work.
Kat steps out one evening in her new running shoes and passes by an abandoned tennis court along the beltway in Washington D.C. Transported to the 1980s, Kat races to find her way back home, and stumbles into a destiny she could never expect.
Reading of my flash fiction, Man at the Crossroads