Stories

After a very long journey, a samurai named, Tatsuro Myoki has stumbled across a community of innocents that simply want to live in peace and harmony with the world at large. However, when the 'blood gods' come to collect local citizens as tribute...this lone samurai must choose between leaving a life of death and murder behind, or using his unmatched skill to protect those he has come to care about!

Lots of ordinary things pass us by while we're busy doing other stuff. However, sometimes the veil gets thin and glimpses peek through of something brighter.

Harry and his buddies go downtown for a day of hanging out. They're seventeen-year-old guys with a lot on their minds, although by their take-life-as-it-comes attitudes you'd never know it.

She walked into his office and changed his world but who is this dame, really? Seth Graham didn't know what hit him when Dorothy James showed up in his life but now someone is dead and he's afraid she's guilty.

Confronted by some bizarre happenings in his home town, a young engineering student ends up needing to unearth the truth behind the mysterious murder from almost a 1000 years ago, whilst having to try to come to terms with his own unrelenting past, and a budding romance with a mysterious new arrival in college. He has to put together all the pieces of the puzzle in time, or end up being the helpless victim

Fourteen-year-old Simon is getting a haircut. He has choices: a crew cut or a mullet; to continue his isolation, or to murmur a personal 'open sesame.' Later, with a little help from his friends, he finds out he is not nearly as alone as he imagined. And he suddenly can face the prospects of a long summer and entering high school in the fall with hope.

These are fragments, short stories and maybe even actual short stories.
Each chapter is its own.
They contain ghosts, giants, magic books, dead people, murder, drugs, suicide...

While attending a Memorial Day 18th birthday party, Seth is asked by a friend's brother about being interviewed for his high school newspaper. The interview brings back vivid memories of serving as a Congressional intern and being trapped inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The ghost of a murdered young male prostitute seeks help in bringing his murderer to justice before he strikes again. Unfortunately, there are obstacles in the way...of the darkest kind!

Card Tales was written to a challenge to help me get over my writer's block. It is a series of interwoven tales with a single main character, Cardanniel, who gets into a bunch of trouble. At the top of each tale will be a list of required elements. These were part of the challenge. Please note there are continuity errors, and I am aware of them.

Marc is a man with a dangerous problem. When his brother won't give up trying to help him will he accept that help?