Amaryllis Belladonna

Entry in Fantasmical contest.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: First Impressions

I have never read or seen anything to do with Harry Potter. My co-workers are forcing me to read the books. I am going to run a commentary on what I think as I go through it.

GHOSTS CAN DANCE

Near home, at a turn off on the Black Woods Road dwells the spirit of a maiden killed by the logging truck she tried to flag down after a sorry incident with a boyfriend. Many have seen that ghost with some giving her a ride to her former domicile down the hill, they said. A professor at the local branch of the state...

HUMILIATION of a SAMURAI

cover: @JELyrica / One week after Margaret pulls the plug on her relationship with Vincent, a decade-old video of their performance as a musical duo called Citizen Samurai goes viral, and they're hired as an opening act for an aging British boy band's reunion tour. Their romantic collaboration is kaput, but Vincent a...

The Rise of Havel

THIRD BOOK IN THE TIDES OF SORROW SERIES. Still reeling from the events in Chicago, Nick and Craig are beset with deep sorrow after witnessing Becky perish in the battle at the nightclub. Cain is nowhere to be found; they suspect he is grieving too over her loss. Unexpectedly, they end up playing host to C...

Negative Energy

Resurrection doesn't come cheap. To pay off his body debt to a future society, Matt Harmon must help a sentient power company track down a saboteur. As he scours the energy mesh for signs of foul play, he finds troubling links to his past and omens of a future without humanity. The entire book is now available on Amaz...

This is a Test

Randall Cashe, a mechanical and electrical engineer, joins a team of scientists in a Mars-mission habitat hoping to rake in a massive payday. Their goal: to produce their own air, water, and food while testing the building with simulated disasters. When the outside world succumbs to a lethal airborne pandemic, the her...

Telling The Bees

In Celtic myth, honeybees were regarded as having great wisdom and acted as messengers between worlds, able to travel to the Otherworld, bringing back messages from the gods. "Telling the bees" may be a throwback to the idea of keeping the gods informed of human affairs. "You must treat them as you would a member of...