Guys, this month, we set up the challenge of taking on the smoky, deceptively clear-cut subgenre of DieselPunk! And may we say, this guy packs a mighty punch! Check out original shorts, reviews, interviews, contests and more--all right here for your reading pleasure!
(Fantasy Adventure) The Kobold are coming. As the tide of Gathering Dark threatens not only the elves, but the dwarves, and shattered remnants of the human populace, only a few stand in their way: only they can restore the lost City of Ai. And then there's the dragon... Sorcery, ancient magic, sword play, and high fa...
The Mayans were right.....almost. On the 23rd of December 2012, the Earth witnessed beautiful harmless meteor showers all round the planet. Beginning on the 25th of December, the world did end for the humans. The earth did not implode, the stars did not come crashing down, no giant tsunamis hit the coastlines nor did...
A steampunk short set in an alternative London. The Tower: a rock around which swirls a broken Empire, where Cloud Pirates rules the skies in their cloudships and power is all. Lead by Tower Commander Denalta, can Trooper Seth and his fellow Guards survive, and will the weapons supplied by the enigmatic Raven give the...
Derek may or may not deserve to be stalked by an unhinged ex-marine - he's not sure. He did kill the man's entire family in a car accident, and he may have been drinking, though thanks to the resulting coma he can't remember much about that day. And that's okay, because Derek is learning all about it from the district...
A novel-length adventure with the officers of Space Command! When a guild of courtesans is threatened, Space Command must dispatch a mismatched team of officers who survive bizarre misadventures while en route to protect the concubines form the reptilian Slin-tokine. This preview includes Chapters 1 and 2! Get the...
The Magnetron Chronicles, Volume 1 Phineas Magnetron is an eccentric Nineteenth Century inventor blessed with a strange gift he doesn't completely understand. As a former soldier and current member of the Hogalum Society, an inscrutable secret organization of crime fighting adventurers, Phineas is no stranger to peril...
Science Fiction / Alternative History - His life's work complete, Dr Marvin Ledbetter leaves the known universe and journeys backwards through time. But where would you go, what would you want to see? Dinosaurs? Elvis? Who killed JFK? What would happen if your time machine went wrong and started doing things that you...
A voice from beyond opens an old wound for a idealistic doctor trying to help a young inmate who is bent on killing himself. A story full of hope and redemption rising from horror and tragedy.
Crime, whiskey and a **** load of mayhem. Detective Nick Shelley's career is about to get a lot more exciting...
A sci-fi romantic comedy steampunk story about a young boy named Kinetta who has no knowledge of his real family. He was found off of the streets and adopted to the money hungry, power hungry Malzaheimer family. He is fascinated by steampunk and would want to study more about it and earn a masters in manufacturing st...
A steampunk short. The age old battle between the Sky Pirates and the Troglodytes comes to a head. Can Talen and Marn finally end the war or will steamtanks, titanic squid and wheeled warriors merely prolong the battle? A steampunk novel based on four photos for ForbiddenPlanet's SciFi Short Story Smackdown. Round 2...
After an attack on a space freighter, the only two survivors find themselves marooned in an emergency shuttle. When an unknown ship approaches them, the men think they are saved. But everything changes, when they fall into the hands of pirates. Follow Luke, an ordinary adolescent from the prosperous Federation, as he...
World War II. We think we know the men and women who fought and died for us, and what motivated them. Opposing sides, opposing views and motivations... Perhaps so.. perhaps not...
"... the last days are not unfolding exactly as written, but make no mistake - Heaven and Hell have fallen to Earth." When an earthquake plunges the world into darkness, Alexandra Contreras struggles for survival and seeks answers. Guided by a mysterious, scarred man, she braves the wasteland in search of humanity's...
A deformed circus performer leaves home in order to seek the paradise city of Eden
My second novel, A Life of Death, was published through Books of the Dead Press in a serialized and complete version late in 2013. It is a paranormal coming-of-age story about one boy's struggle to gain control over his murderous visions. The sequel was also published through Books of the Dead Press in 2014. Homicide...
Reilly and Carrie, two best childhood friend, carry dangerous information about the XT-537 Program. They flee from planet to planet to reach a communication planet, ran by a friend who can broadcast the whole information over all systems. Meanwhile, they get followed by an undercover agent group called the UHASA. Will...
With two brand new stories by Grady Richards. In this dark collection you will find otherworldly spiders, zombie debt collectors, malevolent pets, and prophecy gone awry. You will see into the heart of a child-killer and into the heart of a man mourning the loss of his daughter. You will find terrors locally in a ma...
Madcap adventure? Travel, humor, sex and desire? The fate of the cosmos? Finders Keepers is the critically acclaimed backpacking buddy story of two dudes making their way through Europe and New Zealand, searching for their place in the world ... while trying not to wreck the Milky Galaxy in the process.
When Hakan Kramer opens a tea café in a tourist town, his uncanny ability to match patrons with their favorite teas quickly gains him a loyal customer base, including the renowned rock star Avery Fawns. But as Avery’s interest in Hakan grows, she begins to pull him into her world, one comprised of rock music, the thri...
Jacob Trask and Will Defoe are the last of a dying breed; the noble gunslingers. A nomadic people who are often as ambiguous in their motives as they are in their actions. They are both good men and evil men, and are trapped between wanting to be saints and remembering they are sinners. When they kil...
Alister Kunkle is cursed because death is in love with him. A simple smile from friend or stranger is all it takes to encourage death to kill. With his family deceased and a path of destruction behind him, Alister sits inside a mental institution, sworn to silence and separated from the rest of the world, haunted by...
What is a man's breaking point? When does he snap, consumed by rage? As ordinary man Richard Whitfield's life falls apart around him, he struggles to remain in control through a personal journey that will test his friendships, his marriage, and his sanity.
Anna Groban has managed to live despite her tragic past. She has found the right guy, the right job and a better life. Everything is going great until a ghost from the past has come back to life to haunt her and will put her life in jeopardy. An Archangel fell down from the heavens to save the world from the greatest...
Nick Blane is a paranormal investagatory journalist for a semi-popular tabloid magazine called Beyond Belief. After returning home from an investigation, his brother Steve -who also happens to be his lawyer- informs Nick of a surprising inheritance left to him by their unacquainted late grandfather, Dr. Alexander Holt...
In the secret world of Angels and Demons, freelance fighters called demon hunters sprang up out of the need to hold back the rising horde of evil forces. Out of all the "class D hunters", one stands out from the rest. He is called V, and he might be the only thing standing between us and a hell on earth.
