All people, all children, have adventures in fantastic, magical worlds of talking animals, living legends, and myth. But all children, eventually, grow up and forget. Anthony remembered. This tale follows “Alabaster Emissaries” and marks Anthony’s return to NeverEarth where an old foe awaits and a dark curse bubbles just beneath the pristine surface.This story continues the adventures of Anthony Delleroe in the strange, otherworldly land of NeverEarth. All people, all children, have adventures in fantastic, magical worlds of talking animals, living legends, and myth. But all children, eventually, grow up and forget. Anthony remembered. This tale follows “Alabaster Emissaries” and marks Anthony’s return to NeverEarth where an old foe awaits and a dark curse bubbles just beneath the pristine surface. The world-setting (containing NeverEarth, Kellen, Talismere, the Alabaster Palace, and other landmarks within this story’s context), and the specific contextual characters of Anthony Delleroe, Karl, Queen Allasande, Duchess Malgrave, Wiste, and others, are owned by myself.The story began in "Christmas in NeverEarth" and continued with free, downloadable publications (in eBook and PDF formats) on Smashwords. I'll be uploading this to Smashwords in the next few weeks, again, for free. Until then, you can read it, here.Cover art is by Louis Frank. Views: 659
If you enjoy the old west with a twist, cowboy lawmen with guns blazing and outlaws, always on the take and of course dope, zombies and the strange flying machines of the elders….this one might be for you?Scratches starts as the Sacramento lawman—Dan Bardwell—falls from his saddle in front of the mission gates at Arroyo de la Cantua. After safely getting his man—or men rather—and riding away into the night, the lawman is awakened by a terrible buzzing which can’t be explained. With a blood moon rising across the range, he is confronted by the undead as he stands next to a little fire with a blued Navy Colt in each hand. The zombies continue to pile through the long nighttime hours until the bullets are no more. As he lies prostrate under an unforgiving desert sun, sand blows around his form and he has a series of delirious visions, where he meets Ahote—an old Indian friend—and Father John who may or may not really be there?Scratches is the first of a planned series of short stories written in support of the novel, Ain’t No Law in California—from Solstice Publishing, in which the Sacramento lawman, Dan Bardwell, rides through hell and high water on the trail of some outlaw or another. The short collects various bits from the rewrite of a follow-up novel which I hope to submit soon.If you enjoy the old west with a twist, cowboy lawmen with guns blazing and outlaws, always on the take and of course dope, zombies and the strange flying machines of the elders….this one might be for you? Views: 656
All people, all children, have adventures in fantastic, magical worlds of talking animals, living legends, and myth. But all children, eventually, grow up and forget. Anthony forgot. But when his adventures began again as an adult, he found his life getting more complicated. Queen Allasande of Kellen has come to see her Champion's world, but after a riot Anthony must find and save her.The next fantasy adventure story in the chronicles of Anthony Delleroe and the magical world of NeverEarth, "Alabaster Emissaries" again follows Anthony's life, and that of his boyfriend, Kyle. But, curious about her Champion's life and homeworld, his childhood friend and current Queen of Kellen, Allasande has come with a small retinue to experience Earth.All people, all children, have adventures in fantastic, magical worlds of talking animals, living legends, and myth. But all children, eventually, grow up and forget.Anthony remembered. Anthony remembered and restored his contact with his childhood refuge. His tales of home caught the imagination of many thus leading to Allasande coming to visit. But after a riot breaks out at one of the largest shopping malls in the world, Allasande has gone missing. Separated from the others by the chaos caused by a gang conflict, her limited retinue of Wiste and Castori, (a troll, her bodyguard, and Lord of the Royal Hunt), the monarch of distant NeverEarth is missing. Anthony must find her before things fall apart and two worlds go to war.He must save the Queen of NeverEarth.Cover art by Louis Frank. Views: 632
Occupy Movement Singapore are 3 fictional stories collected and inspired by ordinary Singaporeans who seek revenge against the 1% rich.Occupy Movement Singapore: Three Complete Novels1) Philippore LandIn the middle of the Great Depression in Singapore in 2020, Occupy Wall Street Terrorist (OWS) Kwek Chee Meng and Tham Shin Yi meet when Chee Meng tries to steal Shin Yi's mother's car. Shin Yi, who is bored by her job as a jobless university graduate is intrigued with Kwek Chee Meng, and decides to take up with him and become his partner in crime. They do some holdups, but their amateur efforts, while exciting, are not very lucrative.Chee Meng and Shin Yi turn from pulling small-time heists to robbing rich foreigners. Their exploits also become more violent until it reaches the point of Chee Meng murdering and robbing the rich to help the poor.2) The Mortgage Arrears Forgiveness Project Murder: From Dark Journey to Deep GraceOn Nov 5 2013, one man left an indelible stamp on the Singaporean psyche. His goal was simple: to blow up and murder and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Lieutenant Marcus Tang, a militia movement sympathizer, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Mortgage Arrears Forgiveness Plan, which ended in the scrapping of the project in Singapore Parliament. Marcus hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. His execution will take place on Dec 4, 2015, at the Changi Correctional Complex in Singapore but with one wish – he wants to be baptised.3) The Tan Cheng Juan Story: From Systems Analyst to Security GuardTan Cheng Juan is a loner. He’s a vigilante. He’s fed up with his unemployment. He was retrenched as a systems analyst and seeks a security guard to pay his bills.And he carries a three-gun arsenal:. 44 Magnum, .38 Smith & Wesson and a little palm piece, a.25 Colt. He spends his nights working the shifts as a security guard. He meets someone with a similar fate as him and desperately wants to save him while redeeming himself. Someone strange is a hero. How many wrongs to make it right? Views: 624
A collection of eight short stories themed on love, death and the boundaries between. Previously published and new unpublished stories exploring aspects of human dying from the murdered to the beautiful. The stories cover tragedy, horror, humor and poetry.A collection of eight short stories themed on love, death and the boundaries between. Previously published and new unpublished stories exploring aspects of human dying from the murdered to the beautiful. The stories cover tragedy, horror, humor and poetry. Some extracts: 'Art is not about harsh reality; it's about embellishment, hiding the truth. And eternity. Once painted a flower remains forever in bloom, a cornfield forever in sun. A woman's face forever beautiful.' 'He wasn't lying right. As he fell his right arm had twisted behind and caught underneath making him lop-sided. Sliding my surgical gloves on my hands I pulled his arms out so they spread in the usual position. Like Jesus on the cross the Standard had described a previous body, but it wasn't. These guys got nowhere near a cross. They were meat on the slab.''The boy stands and Jani's finger tightens on the trigger ready for the kill. But once upright he doesn't move, standing stock-still, arms by his sides. Jani once again trains the cross hairs on the face. The eyes are filled with defiance now, chin up. The boy slides his feet together then, slowly, lifts his arms out from his side, holds them wide and open, palms forward. A smile breaks on his face and he lifts closed eyes to the black sky. ''Daily I have visualized Cameron in front of me, tasted the saliva building in my mouth as my finger pulls the trigger. I watch him hit the ground, limbs splaying at odd angles, the plastic smile on his face, gone forever. They grab me, those around him, wrench the gun from my hand and wrestle me to the ground. I stay calm among the panic. My task done.''My name is Finn McIntyre. Finn, short for Finnegan. My eyes are different, the left one green, the right, a soft speckled brown, the color of walnut cake. From the age of twelve I read poetry and science journals and held a recorded IQ of 141 - the same as Benito Mussolini. Smart but weird, that's what kids at school used to say of me. Smart, but too goddamn weird. They only knew the half. ''When his world changed, Archie Middleman was sitting quietly on a garden bench thinking about petunias. The sun bathed his face, a breeze cooled his skin, a bird-feeder in the tree above swung gently under the force of a departing sparrow. A brief heaven for a weary gardener. As he looked up at the flight of the bird the summer sky exploded filling the air with bright vanilla light and a soft familiar two-word greeting fell like an axe through his skull.' Views: 606
There are three sides to every story... It's GCSE results day. Frankie's best friend, Jojo, is missing. A baby has been stolen. And more than one person has been lying. Frankie's determined to find out the truth and her ex-boyfriend Ram is the only person who can help her. But they're both in for a shock... EVERYTHING is about to change. Views: 604
A storm was coming.Antonia, who was all-too-often alone, could feel it in the air. She could feel it in her blood, in her bones, and in the words of her unusual, diminutive friend: the mouse whose warnings rang in her ears.This is the story of how she lost her home ... and found another.The Skylands are floating continents, islands in the sky, of a fantasy realm known as Talvali. It is a patchwork world into which pieces of other lands are taken. But where do its inhabitants come from? Who are the men, women, and children who make up this diverse, strange world?Antonia was just a child when The Storm came. Powerful and foreboding, she nonetheless has one person at her side: a very special friend ... a human-shaped mouse who could speak. But on the playground, as the winds rise, she is torn between what she knows she must do and the words her diminutive companion tells her of the dragons to come.Cover art by Louis Frank. Views: 600
Despite being born 700 years apart, Alice and Bethania have a lot in common. For one thing, they both believe that the same little boy is their son.Despite being born 700 years apart, Alice and Bethania have a lot in common. For one thing, the both believe that the same little boy is their son.The second novellette in the "Season of the Witch" series, Bethania's Broomsticks is a twisted fable retelling of the La Befana story. Views: 577
David and Phil, friends since college, have recently had rough patches in their marriages, including an affair. Though they’ve never been the type to discuss intimate personal problems, David feels the need to unburden himself to Phil. As they play pool and have a few beers, David recounts recent events in his life while wondering how much, if anything, he should tell his friend.“Thoughts Left Unsaid” is a mainstream story about two middle-aged men, David and Phil, friends since college, who have recently had rough patches in their marriages, including an affair. Though they’ve never been the type to discuss intimate personal problems, David feels the need to unburden himself to Phil. As they play pool and have a few beers, David recounts recent events in his life while wondering how much, if anything, he should tell his friend. If you enjoy the quality of this story and are interested in erotic fiction with similar quality writing and storylines, check out Alex Exley’s collection of short stories, “Tales of Love & Lust.” Select erotic stories also sold individually. Views: 570
All people, all children, have adventures in fantastic, magical worlds of talking animals, living legends, and myth. But all children, eventually, grow up and forget.Anthony remembered. But woken in the night by a cloaked figure and the smell of roses, he must now return to the land of his youth in pursuit of a very strange thief.He must return to NeverEarth.Cover art by Louis Frank.The next fantasy adventure story in the chronicles of Anthony Delleroe and the magical world of NeverEarth, "The Rose Petal Thief" again finds the memory-awakened man at college. But this time, what comes through his closet door isn't an old friend or even someone he knows. Rather, it is a small, cloaked figure apparently intent on nothing more than petty thievery.All people, all children, have adventures in fantastic, magical worlds of talking animals, living legends, and myth. But all children, eventually, grow up and forget.Anthony remembered. Anthony remembered and returned. But now saddled with someone who's never experienced another world, apparently not even as a child, he must face a different sort of challenge as he quests to retrieve the mundane item that was stolen.He must return to NeverEarth.Cover art by Louis Frank. Views: 563
A zealous government tries to use one lover against another for information. But when that fails, the government proves they still have the upper hand.Conan Burke’s childhood is curious. He is born in Bootle in 1920 to a couple who marry in haste. His Belgian mother suffers from long cyclical depressions and Conan spends half of his childhood in the care of his maternal grandmother in Brussels. He proves to be an unusual, single-minded child who is obsessed with language. He develops a special talent for recognising accents and learns to pinpoint a speaker's birthplace by the sound of their voice. When his mother dies prematurely, he finds himself free to roam the north of England on his bike, all the while honing his linguistic skills. He is earnest and undeviating in his obsession and there are hints of how his compulsive behaviour will make his grown-up life difficult, singular and sometimes absurd. Nowadays he might well be diagnosed as suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome. By the 1960s Conan has become a radio personality and university lecturer in Romance Linguistics attached to a Department of Spanish somewhere in the North of England. When his marriage fails because his wife can no longer stand his unreasonable and often ludicrous obsessive behaviour he decides he will try to change in order to win her back. He wishes he could become more romantic and imaginative instead of being so cold and factual. So, during the summer vacation he embarks upon a journey to Galicia in north-west Spain, hoping that a pilgrimage to this rural cradle of magical realism might wondrously transform his notoriously concrete thinking. The tale is narrated by his daughter Jennifer, who accompanies him on the journey. She grounds him, rescues him and protects him, jealously guarding him from the predatory attentions of an academic girlfriend who takes advantage of his lack of worldliness and attempts to rob him of his chance discovery of a literary and anthropological find. Views: 560
G is your average screw-up. When he's involved in a bus accident with a quasi-dangerous stranger and wakes up in 1996, he’s sure he’s gone bonkers. But then he decides ... maybe not. And if not, then why shouldn’t he try to change his crappy future? The only way G knows to do that is by preventing a horrible tragedy he witnessed as a teenager.Three stones, identical in size, shape, and quality.One white. One red. One black.G, a 30-something slacker, is convinced he has nothing to lose, except his aging father: an old man with anger issues and lots of secrets. G has never heard of the these mysterious stones, even though they are his legacy. If he were ever unlucky enough to come across them, they’d mean nothing to him.But Daemon, the guardian of the sacred Threestones, knows what they can do. He's used them. He knows how powerful, how valuable they are. He’s also convinced that killing the man who stole them from him is the only way to protect the secret of their existence. Views: 555
Second Installment of the popular Threestone Trilogy. Packed with more action and excitement than the first!Who is Daemon?Why did he target G and his family?Join G in this second part of his journey as he searches for answers, learns more about the strange legacy his father left him, and the seemingly limitless power of the Threestone. In this next installment of the Threestone Trilogy, G travels to new and unknown worlds where he finds the most exciting and unexpectedly dangerous adventures yet. Views: 555
Between this world and elsewhen lies the Barrow Lands; the place where things that were once magic go when the magic fades. This is a collection of two of the Barrow Bard tales -- the ones most frequently performed at science fiction conventions by Mel. WhiteBetween this world and elsewhen lies the Barrow Lands; the place where things that were once magic go when the magic fades. This is a collection of two of Mel. White's Barrow Bard tales -- the most recent ones that were previewed at Soonercon science fiction convention. Views: 554
