Stories

Ice, the best barrier one could hope for.

various stories, and other pieces

Taking advantage of the power vacuum created by the collapse of the Soviet Union, underworld figures made a grab for legitimate businesses. However, the emerging Russian Mafia was not satisfied with those enterprises and extended their tendrils to embrace other ventures. Drugs, kiddie porn, prostitution, and slavery operations flourished until they tangled with the wrong beings.

Two boys, both closeted, discover their true selves in each other.

Tucked away in the southeast corner of Tennessee is a small town called Minor Springs.

Tristan is a bullied teen who spends his days (and nights) plotting his escape.

Finn has it all - popularity, money and the perfect girlfriend - but feels the town is closing in around him.

As Minor Springs threatens to destroy them both, they will find refuge in an abandoned clubhouse in the woods separating their two worlds.

Edwin is a young shop owner living a quiet life in the kingdom of Wisian, but that peace is shattered when his best friend vanishes without a trace. Desperate for help, he meets a mysterious man offering his assistance - a seductive demon named Lothar.

As attraction between the two men grows stronger every day, Edwin finds himself getting entangled in a conflict between demons and angels. Will Lothar be able to find Edwin’s friend in time, and what will be the price of his help?

I wish I could turn back the clock and go with you. How many times had Morgan St. John said these words, tortured himself. But there was no going-back, only going forward and live.

Wanted criminal Hong Shen finally meets his end after being stabbed in the back by a comrade. As he makes his final resting place under a dead plum tree, he submits to death.

Instead, he receives two choices: die, or be given a second chance.

To take the second chance means he must complete a trial in the past in order to return to the present. But what he doesn't know is that the trial isn't only difficult for him, but even more difficult for the person he must be to fulfill it.

After troubling days, Owen and Alex finally find some peace to cherish their fresh relationship. But as it is in stories like this, peace is not about to last long.

"Tragic Genius" is the fourth and penultimate book in "The Trial", a series beginning with "Shadow Honor". In this book, we follow the early days of the Demon War, and focus on the stories of Neredos and Veil predominantly, but with many other familiar faces as well. What does it take to make a leader, and how do the horrors of war twist a person's mind? How do we fight for good, life, and peace in a world full of evil, death, and pain? This is the heart of what The Trial means.