It is 1805, and Dr. Stephen Byrne leads the rather simple life of a country gentleman and a physician. However, on a voyage to Jamaica, where he has been summoned to try to save the ailing Governor, he encounters Miss Rosalind Marlowe, the beautiful daughter of the indomitable Vice-Admiral Marlowe, and his life turns...
It has been three years since Aaron Harrington's wife left him. Unable to move on, battling alcoholism, and facing problems at work, he struggles to maintain the will to live. For Jack Graeme, it has been three years since he met the married Anne Harrington. Now that she is his wife, he is forced to come to terms with...
"Why do you hide me from the other officers? Its not seldom that they take one of us as a mistress..." Matylda said. Walter stiffened. "You're not my mistress." "What am I, then?"
Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer...
The year is 1789, and Henry Kent is captain of a ship bound to the High Arctic on an explorative expedition. On the way he meets John Manning, a charming boy of twelve with dreams of adventure. The secret he discovers about John is only the beginning of a long, harrowing chain of events that lead him on the path to ho...
It's them against the world- even if they don't know it yet. Danny’s mute. He’s anorexic, he’s rich, he wears all black, he loves his music. He's a closet gay. He’s extremely self-conscious and hides from reality. Olivier’s deaf. He’s dirt-poor, he’s constantly hungry, he wears his clothes from the Salvation Army. He...
In the realm of Altaar, an elf by the name of Sen has been exiled from her lands and into the vast desert full of emptiness and despair. She's left wandering aimlessly as an outcast and a forgotten soldier whose name once burned legendary. Until she stumbled upon a spoken myth; the forest of Gardavia, the land of the...
A dark, modern day retelling of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Explores lust and obsession in the wake of maturing sexuality. Short story originally published in Midwest Literary Magazine, November, 2010. Also appeared in the print anthology, Bearing North.
The Immortal Detective Westward Q. Priest is hot on the trail of a killer who is just as supernatural as he is. A short story to start an ongoing series of short stories told from first person perspective 'casefiles' our hero has lived a long life and has many tricks up his sleeve when battling against the creatures...
Sara Saxton is an average 16 year old girl. Until she is diagnosed with cancer. All she wants is to get healthy and live a normal life, so when an opportunity seemingly offers her the chance, she takes it. Unfortunately she doesn't get either and her life changes in a way she could have never imagined. Now she must fi...
Anne seems to have it all - at only twenty-five, she's a freelance theatre critic and married to Aaron Harrington, a wealthy businessman one year her junior. But after two years of marriage, the couple realizes something - they can't have children. What ensues is a visit to Dr. Graeme, the doctor at the country's most...
