Stories

The kids of the Global Explorer and schools throughout the world show that they can make a difference. Armed with science leavened with a touch of magic*, they help bring the Enlightenment to the most closed societies of Earth.
[*It’s magic only until you understand it.]

Justin, a freshman in high school, walks in one day to have one of his idol's groupies corner Justin to meet him that night. I wonder what he wants?

Taz Langley is just an ordinary American—until Tepin Blankht shows up at his door. Now everything he's known as truth turns out wrong as his world turns upside down.

Sometimes, life just sucks. Jared Warren knows this better than anyone. His 'loving' marriage has had thirteen long, long years to explain it to him. In detail. But when the choice between an experimental life-saving procedure and dying comes up, he doesn't hesitate. After all, he has to protect his kids!

Three Earth Analogues come together in "0300 Book 2." Here are beginnings of two of them.

A gay couple just out of grad school moves to a new town, new ranch, new jobs, and become surrogate parents to an abused gay teen.

This is the conclusion of Matt and Mike Broman's story of their lives and how they worked it out.

On the Global Explorer, science, espionage, and environmental activism meet Sea Cadets enrolled in a United Nations science program. The goal of the Explorer’s crew? To save the world from global warming, widespread hunger, pollution, post-Soviet Russian thuggery, and a myriad things adults created but that their children must solve.

A powerful, evil sorcerer threatens the Kingdom of Tarolia and Kieren, a young half-elf, finds himself thrust into the heart of the struggle. How is he involved and what part will he play?

Shawn is disillusioned with life and harbors a deep hatred for everyone around him, including his mother. He even hates himself. Furthermore, he has Anthony, a "personal tormentor" of the past few years. He isn't sure why Anthony seemingly singles him out, but he doesn't care. It just makes it easier to hate him. A chance encounter, however, will show them that they have more in common than they realize.