After hundreds of years traversing the vastness of interstellar space, the ship's artificial intelligence begins gestating frozen embryos. It will raise and educate the men and women who will colonize a new world. Unfortunately, the gestation chamber fails after only two children are birthed. With questions to homeworld requiring years for an answer, the AI is uncertain how to continue the mission... [click here for more]
They call him the Black Widow.
Diea is a Gemini soldier, a special ops marine trained to work more closely with one partner than any other. Through the nanotech in their veins, a Gemini pair can communicate over any distance, see and hear what the other experiences, and it's been said when one partner is killed, the other will fall dead on the spot.
But the Black Widow has outlived... [click here for more]
They're stranded on an icy moon with only one tent between them.
They can't stand each other.
And they're getting married in two days. Team Hendrix: close-knit like family, the rising stars, work hard, play harder.
Hendrix is a fighter pilot for the spaceship Artio with a hand-picked team of underdogs, and this year they're making a run for the championship. But he knows politics and fashion... [click here for more]
Ott and Ren are almost to Denver when yet another shortcut slows them down in the form of 'Crevice', a settlement build around an old ski lodge. The leaders won't let them pass through without paying or completing several tasks for them. With no time to lose, they get to work, not knowing that they will be expected to offer their services in more ways than one before the day is over.
#2 of the Ott... [click here for more]
Ott and Ren finally make it to the Kingdom of Denver for the death race and find out they were almost too late. Focus on strategy to win the race is quickly replaced with trying to survive long enough to reach the starting line when they discover the kingdom's inhabitants aren't as easy going as they first appeared.
#3 of the Ott & Ren series
1. Bay of Wolves
2. Crevice
4. Q the Madman ... [click here for more]
Ott and Ren visit the Brute Squad headquarters for work, lacking gold to even eat after losing the death race. They are easily accepted and are given their first assignment: find Q the Madman and evidence of who is pushing poisoned X-Juice in the Kingdom of Denver.
#4 of the Ott & Ren series
1. Bay of Wolves
2. Crevice
3. Kingdom of Denver ... [click here for more]
Aiden stepped into the teleport with his family, but never reached mars. At least, this version of him didn't.
While his original is enjoying a holiday, he—the illegal duplicate—is paralysed from the neck down and told to steal sensitive data from the interplanetary security corporation he works for. If he doesn't, his family and his original self will be killed.
What he doesn't know is that... [click here for more]
It should have just been a quick, albeit deceptive, dig for an alien AI braincore on the planet of Shake Hands, a frontier world eschewing high tech and outsiders... Then someone tried to kill Pree and her crew.
"Screaming Metal" is a Twitter novella (31,000 words) written in microfiction format (25 words or less per "paragraph") partially posted on Twitter in 2015 and Vocal in 2017-2018.
Inspired... [click here for more]