Free Fiction Monday: “Glass Walls”
Beth pays for crimes she committed as a child while under alien influence. Languishing in indentured servitude, her employers use her to satisfy the needs of their alien guests. To cope, she withdraws....
View ArticleFree Fiction Monday: The Museum of Modern Warfare
When the Ambassador to the Dylft System—a veteran of the Dylft Wars—receives orders to lead a diplomatic mission to Craznaust, she wonders at the wisdom of accepting the assignment. Still, when she...
View ArticleFree Fiction Monday: Becalmed, Part One
Mae, chief linguist on the Ivoire, heads a diplomatic mission to Ukhanda. Her handling of relations with the Quurzod lead to a battle that causes the Ivoire’s anacapa drive to malfunction, stranding...
View ArticleFree Fiction Monday: The Museum of Modern Warfare
This was so popular last year on Memorial Day that I decided to repeat it this year. Thinking of all who are no longer with us. When the Ambassador to the Dylft System—a veteran of the Dylft...
View ArticleFree Fiction Monday: Dix
This week’s Free Fiction Monday is a little different. It’s a way to sample my new Diving novel, Searching for the Fleet, before its publication day on Tuesday, Sept. 18. The novella “Dix,” which was...
View ArticleFree Fiction Monday: Dancers Like Children
Dr. Justin Schafer travels to the Bountiful colony to investigate a series of brutal murders. The colonists blame the Dancers, an alien species the colony relies on for its livelihood. But the more...
View ArticleFree Fiction Monday: Spaceships in the Desert
Laurel helps many people who return from the desert shaken by what they’ve seen—or think they’ve seen. But Mark seems different. He listens to her, and he makes her obsession with finding the strange...
View ArticleFree Fiction Monday: The One That Got Away
The regulars at Spirit Winds’ Thursday night blackjack tournament never call attention to themselves. Some are retired, some are a little shady, some have seen too much. But none of them believed in...
View ArticleFree Fiction Monday: Sing
Dirk wants to learn how to sing like the natives, but they have no word for singing nor a concept of it. Until Dirk tries to show a young child her people’s beautiful music. Intrigued, she offers to...
View ArticleFree Fiction Monday: What Fluffy Knew
Fluffy leads the perfect life. Her cat bed, her kibble, a human to wait on her. Until they come. And they will change everything—unless she finds a way to stop them. One of award-winning writer...
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