In this short story, space is a harsh, unforgiving place - especially if you're holding a fish.*Contains adult themes and language. Not for the faint of heart or the narrow of mind.*This story is a companion piece to 'The Elf and The Ogre, which by the way is also completely free.Forever Ends is one of many self-contained tales of an aberrant future. Find more in 'Breaking Benjamin', available in print or e-book.

A young girl, who is about to discover her destiny, turns sixteen years old right after the death of her parents. Depressed and alone, she unveils her fate, which she may not want any part of. This comes when her Guardian reveals that her blood is not human, but of an ancient race. She is a Pureblood Oceain, a protector of the oceans, the last of her kind, and her name is Holidee.A young girl, who is about to discover her destiny, turns sixteen years old right after the death of her parents. She is taken in by her unknown godmother, who is awkwardly dating her science teacher. Depressed and alone, she unveils her fate, which she may not want any part of. Holidee is told that she is of an ancient race of people from the ocean, who have special skills to help and protect the ocean from humans and natural disasters. When Crix, her godmother’s boyfriend, reveals his true identity as her Guardian and father’s best friend, she begins to doubt everything she had known in her life. Friendless and still grieving her parents’ death, Holidee sets out for the beach with her Guardian. She finds that she was oblivious to her parents' lives, her abilities, and most of her world. She discovers new friends in odd places and unravels the mysteries around her birth. This comes when her Guardian reveals that her blood is not human, but of an ancient race. She is a Pureblood Oceain, a protector of the oceans and all their inhabitants, and the last of her kind. Will she be able to endure the burdens of being an outcast? Can she strengthen her race and bring them out of the depths of solitude? Will she succeed in her destiny? Can a girl lead her people and become the Pureblood she was born to be?

“I didn’t discover the plot to murder me until it was too late. I never saw it coming.” –Regina Roth“I didn’t discover the plot to murder me until it was too late. I never saw it coming.” –Regina RothSince she was a child, fifteen year old Regina Roth has been the victim of disturbing reoccurring nightmares of a house, and a murder. In the summer of her sixteenth birthday Regina leaves her posh life in New York for her mother’s hometown in Texas to bury her mysterious grandmother. Life takes a tumultuous turn for Regina the moment she arrives in Lee. Regina discovers the small town of Lee is literally the scene of her nightmares. Haunted by a vengeful ghost and the lies told by her parents, Regina has no choice but to accept her new life in Lee. After a shocking incident leaves her shaken with fright, Regina is forced to discover the secret behind her dreams. With the help of Linguistics professor, Dr. William Greer, Regina uncovers the horrifying answer.Regina is a terrifying tale of the horrors that lie inside our loved ones and the lengths they go to hide their secrets. And a plan created long ago by an evil family is finally set into motion.

Six short stories of terror, including a cursed camera, a vengeful witch, and more.The continuing story of people needing space - a lot of space. Welcome to Neptune- where the air and sunlight are borrowed, the surface is unstable, and the people are - inventive. In this second collection, we learn more about an ongoing murder investigation, Philo gets a body, some strange things are happening to the planet's surface, and there are some complicated relationships that can make even a new planet feel like a small town.This is Radio Neptune reminding you, each new day is a chance to go out and do something worth putting on the radio.

In the year 2494, time the last frontier had just been conquered, and the two most powerful megalomaniacs in the galaxy each want control of it.An out of work twenty first century researcher battles against a time storm, the jungle, a tribe of Troglodytes, an alien invader, and finally a space pirate, to stop them.In the year 2494, time the last frontier had just been conquered, and the two most powerful megalomaniacs in the galaxy each want control of it.An out of work twenty first century researcher is caught up in a time storm, where he first battles against the universe itself to survive. Finally released from its clutches he must do battle against the jungle, a tribe of Troglodytes, an army of androids and finally an old evil, the Heliots. All the answers for our hero are to be found in the aftermath of the time storm upon the lonely planet of Orion.

After the death of her parents, little Ann has lived under the guardianship of Aunt Margaret, constantly moving from place to place. For many, high school is a time of nostalgia, but for Ann it holds a secret so terrible that she has buried it under years of false memories. With the help of an unknown guide, they delve into her past to uncover a long hidden secret. The results will surprise you.Under the guardianship of Aunt Margaret; after the death of her parents at age five, Little Ann had suffered through a constantly changing environment before they finally settled in a small town outside Durango. For a time life was happy until she started high school. For many, looking back on high school is a time of nostalgia, but for Ann it held a secret so terrible that she had buried it under years of false memories. But with the help of a seemingly unknown guide, they delve into her past to uncover a long hidden secret that has plagued her since childhood. What will happen when her unknown guide forces her to face a conflict that has caused such heart break? Who will be her savior, as a voice from her past reaches out to guide and save her. And why is the voice so strangely silent as she faces the truth buried in her past? The results will not be what you expect.

A ghostly train, a mysterious extra room, co-workers who aren't what they seem. Stories and poetry rating a ten on the goose bump scale. Not for the faint of heart.Cheryl Rainesford takes a ghostly train ride in the middle of the night. Amy discovers extra storage space where there was none before. If you could get away with murder, would you actually commit the crime? How well do you really know the people you work with?Creepy tales and poems that will have you leaving on the light at night. Caution: don't read it alone!

Pirates, Bots and Ghost ships, oh my! Captain Anker and his lovable band of misfits have found a legendary Star liner that was lost hundreds of years ago during the golden era of space exploration. Only one thing stands between them and riches, well make that two things and maybe an insane Artificial Intelligence thrown into the mix. Now with more pop culture and a corgi thrown in!The defiance, a small fast cargo ship in which Captain Anker runs his galactic salvage business. Anker and the crew are on their way back from some time off when they discover an abandoned lost space liner from the golden age of space exploration. The Golden sun is huge and beautiful an example of the opulence of early space exploration.This will not be an easy job though, something is just not right on board the golden sun.

Stan is recruited by the CIA for its ultra top secret Tarizon Repopulation project. His first assignment is to defend a woman accused of murdering her children and alien husband. The alien husband, however, is not from Mexico but Tarizon, a planet in another solar system.Stan is recruited by the CIA for its ultra top secret Tarizon Repopulation project. His first assignment is to defend a woman accused of murdering her children and alien husband. The alien husband, however, is not from Mexico but Tarizon, a planet in another solar system. Stan must not only prove his client innocent but also make sure nobody finds out the government is allowing aliens to live and propagate on Earth. While Stan is busy with his CIA project, Paula is asked to defend the accused in the arson-murder of a prominent scientist and his family. While a bitter feud between neighbors over a barking dog and a chain link fence appears to be the motive for the crime, Paula discovers several others who have benefitted from Chester Brown's death.In the midst of the two murder investigations Stan is lured into a dangerous relationship with an alien woman assigned to keep an eye on him. He soon learns the women of Tarizon are much more dangerous than those on Earth.

Karina's world is turned upside down when she meets the sexy and mysterious Xavier. Something powerful and sensual is unlocked from inside.With Xavier's help, Karina discovers she is a Tuatha De Danann, but his insistence on making her believe troubles Karina. Can she be saved before it is too late?Karina's world is turned upside down when she meets the sexy and mysterious Xavier. Something powerful and sensual is unlocked from inside her that she cannot explain and seems to have little control over.With Xavier's help, Karina discovers she is a Tuatha De Danann, celtic faeries long thought to have been eradicated. Xavier's insistence on making her believe troubles Karina, what dangerous secret is he keeping from her? Can her ex partner Ian save her before it's too late?This novella contains violence, and sexual situations which may not be recommended for readers under fifteen.

Five billion years ago The Beyonder became the first starship to reach the planet Doldoria. Meanwhile on that planet a primitive being named Alldegallo dreams about gods from the stars who are coming. He becomes a prophet who predicts that the gods shall soon change their simple steam-powered animal-pulled world for all time. Other aliens of this galactic empire will also never be the same.Almost five billion years ago there arose the galactic empire of Nephapricus that encompassed the galaxy from one side to the other connected by advanced wormhole technologies. The book Voyage of the Beyonder begins the story of this culture where they first began the age of hyper-acceleration to over half the speed of light. These incredible speeds caused changes to their DNA that mutated them from the terrestrial aliens that were evolving on different planets into galactic beings who lived exponentially longer lives. Voyage of the Beyonder is a full-length novel where each chapter has had an illustration by artist Davol White included as part of the writing process. The title of this latest book by DD White, ‘Voyage of the Beyonder,’ is about Nephapricus, which is an alien word for a galactic culture that rose and fell billions of years before the planet Earth was even conceived. Nephapricus began as a cluster of 15 tightly packed stars where three separate intelligent species of aliens evolved on separate planets that were orbiting the stars named Ea, Poa, and Dol. This book chronicles the journey of a member of the Nephrican alien species who was the first to travel from the star Ea to the star Dol. He was a three-legged one-eyed squid-like alien, and his name was Captain Mynervood. In this story he is the first to travel to the planet Doldoria where the intelligent life there still lived in primitive superstitious societies. Doldorians were beings with exoskeleton anatomies that could see and speak with the dead, and they practiced a plurality of religions and mystical forms of magic. The third species of aliens in this story were the Pripicans who were 4-legged furry beings that looked like mythical centaurs. Pripicans were the victors in the Great War between planets against the Nephricans. Pripicans were also the inventors of the quantum-bit technologies, which were starting to inundate this galactic culture at the time of the story. The quantum-bit technology in this story was also used to make artificially intelligent forms of microscopic beings that were more intelligent than any organic life form, they were immortal, and their microscopic size made them virtually invisible. Nephapricus goes back to the beginning of this alien culture, and begins to chronicle the history of this legendary galactic civilization that rose and fell in the 2nd Age of Magphoreus, long before this present galactic dark age where we exist in ignorance of our rich galactic history, and the true nature of our existence possibly remains blind under the mysterious shadow of these highly evolved ancient aliens.

Chosen to be the Advocates of the mystical and incorporeal Guardians of Peace, twins Tymos and Kryslie must first learn to control and use the power rising in them - or it will destroy them.On Tymorea, only the ruling Triumvirate Governors are powerful enough to guide the strong-willed alien-bred twins until they have mastered their power.The Tymorean Trust - When peace rules Tymorea - Peace reigns in the universe.Chosen to be the Advocates of the mystical and incorporeal Guardians of Peace, twins Tymos and Kryslie must first learn to control and use the power rising in them - or it will destroy them.On Tymorea, only the ruling Triumvirate Governors are powerful enough to guide the strong-willed alien-bred twins until they have mastered their power.But even as Tymos and Kryslie are pushed ever harder to learn skills and wisdom, alien infiltrators are secretly finalising plans to undermine and destroy the ruling Royal elite, enslave the common people, and reform the planetary terrain to suit their own needs.To achieve this, the alien Warlords have already corrupted susceptible Royals, and learnt that Tymos and Kryslie are two of three who are destined to protect the Tymorean Trust and thus thwart their plans.However, Tymos and Kryslie must leave the protected Royal Estate to begin to learn of their other gifts and to come to understand their destiny, even though this will place them in deadly peril.

The Interdimensional Dilemmas of IAN and Betty is an episodic SFF story that reads like a cross between Doctor Who and Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series. Betty Mortimer is a theoretical researcher who one day meets the man she'd thought only existed in thesis. He takes her on an adventure through dimensions and what's waiting for them on the other side will be the challenge of Betty's life.Betty Mortimer has spent her career researching Dimension theory, only to be stonewalled by her colleagues when she suggests that other dimensions bleed into ours. Not only that, but if her theories are correct, there is an intelligent agency that moves through the bleeds. On the edge of abandoning her work, one day Betty receives a strange letter, purporting to be from the very same intelligence of which she had written – and he's inviting her to experience a bleed firsthand.Enter IAN, who takes Betty on an interdimensional adventure where everything she had ever held to be true will be questioned. Journey with them to a place where truth is stranger than fiction and myths are reality. Meet Madame Gabriella Papillon, a lady with questionable motives and a strange thirst; her loyal servant, Schreck, whose quiet menace is palpable; her mysterious friend, locked away for crimes of infamy; the things that reside underneath her estate. Find the secret of the Ancients and experience the perilous expeditions of IAN and Betty.

What looks like a cathedral suddenly begins to emerge from the sands of the Mojave Desert. Scientist believe it is a natural phenomenon but a local religious leader insists it is a sign from the Lord of the second coming of Christ.Due to a freak auto accident, Jack Carpenter discovers a strange geological formation in the Mojave Desert near Bat Mountain, California. He thinks little about it until he returns out of curiosity and discovers the formation is growing, and doing so at a staggering rate. Fascinated by this, he calls in his friend George Parker, a local geology professor, and together they begin to study the Bat Mountain Formation in earnest.Professor Parker has never seen or heard of a geological formation that is growing nearly six inches a day, so he contacts a friend at the U.S. Park Service to get him to take a look. Eventually word of the bizarre discovery gets out and people flock to see this miracle in the desert, which is beginning to look like a cathedral. Seeing an opportunity to save his failing Church of the Living Desert, Reverend John Little proclaims that the Bat Mountain Formation is, indeed, a cathedral and it is being built by God to herald the second coming of Christ.But before Reverend Little and his flock can get their movement off the ground, the U.S. Army steps in and declares the formation a potential public hazard and possible threat to national security. A series of mysterious deaths and the inability of scientist to explain the phenomenon gives credence to the Army's concern.

A young woman defies her domineering mother and goes to Wallace, Idaho in search of her grandfather’s history. Instead, she is involved in murder and learns that the bordellos and mines of the past reach into the present, entwining her in a history very much alive. She must face not only private failures and ghosts of old memories, but also betrayal and loss.Cody Marsh's domineering, embittered mother is the only family she has ever known until her grandfather arrives on her doorstep. He brings with him the acceptance and kindness previously missing in Cody's life, and his death a short time after they meet leaves her empty and yearning. Defying her mother for the first time in her life, Cody sets out for the boyhood home of her grandfather -- Wallace, Idaho -- to find connections to him, to find her place in her family, to find peace within herself.Instead, her search lands her at the scene of a double homicide and Cody's discoveries of her grandfather's past become entwined in a history very much alive. The bordellos, politics, and silver mines of the past reach into the present, driving at least one of her new acquaintances to acts of desperation. Cody must find the strength to face not only private failures and the ghosts of old memories, but betrayal that will strike at her newfound courage.

This is a chapter that was edited out of the final manuscript for The Wielder: Sworn Vengeance. An obvious warning: if you haven’t read Sworn Vengeance, this won’t make a lick of sense to you.But if you have, it does address a few questions. It also shows that Arthur wasn’t the only with vengeance on the agenda.This is a chapter that was edited out of the final manuscript for The Wielder: Sworn Vengeance. An obvious warning: if you haven’t read Sworn Vengeance, this won’t make a lick of sense to you.But if you have, it does address a few questions. It also shows that Arthur wasn’t the only with vengeance on the agenda.This short is provided as a “happy” for our readers. Well, maybe happy isn’t exactly the word to use about this short bonus chapter. You’ll see.

The story of a man who is cloned so perfectly that no one can tell which is which ... including the clone and the original donor.Navy Commander Rob Tyler is a former SEAL who is close to retirement. He is looking forward to spending some quality time with his family when his friend Captain Benny Walsh asks him to be the test subject in a genetic experiment, something Tyler has strong moral convictions against. He balks at first, but in the end, out of loyalty to his friend, he agrees. In the midst of this, a hostile foreign government has infiltrated the cloning facility located beneath an Air Force base in central Georgia. Using new technologies, a team of scientists creates a clone of Tyler that is identical in every respect. The clone even believes that it is the real Rob Tyler. When both Tyler and the clone suffer a traumatic psychological event that leaves one in a coma and the other with a nine-year lapse in his memory, the scientists attempt to move them to a better-equipped medical facility. But on the way to this facility, a vehicle accident combined with an attempt by the hostile agents to steal the cloning technology sets an incredible stage. Among the tangled confusion of the wreck, no one is certain which is Rob Tyler and which is the clone. Henceforth, the two will be forced to travel down very different paths.

It is the summer of 1969—the year mankind first set foot on the moon. "The Red Fox Bible" chronicles twelve year old Bobbie's journey into the baptismal waters of a Southern Baptist Church as he struggles with his own beliefs about evolution."The Red Fox Bible" explores the internal conflict within a boy as he comes to grips with his conservative Southern Baptist upbringing and his growing awareness of science and evolution.Raised in an all female household by his mother, aunt, and older sister, Bobby deeply yearns for direction and companionship from a father figure, but is forced to make life-changing decisions on his own at an early age.This endearing story follows Bobby's challenge to satisfy his mother's religious beliefs while remaining true to himself.

The legendary White Buffalo Calf Woman said that when the last buffalo dies, the world will end. The zookeeper caring for the only remaining American Bison is about to see that prophecy fulfilled.Dr. John Hollow Horn is a zoo veterinarian entrusted with the world’s last American Bison. Hollow Horn is dying of lung cancer, and the world around him is dying, too, suffocated and starved by pollution and decay.He shares with his colleagues the Lakota legends he learned as a boy, saying “Guess now that I’m getting near the end, I’m getting closer to my beginnings.”~ ~ ~ ~This dystopian science fiction short story is based on the legend of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, who prophesied that when the last buffalo dies, the world will end.

Just a quick preface The narrator is a character in and of its self. It will assume you have information you couldn’t possibly have about the story’s universe. But don’t fret, all information will be provided! Just read and let me know if you like it on Twitter @AgrobeaverDiamond earrings from Tiffany’s, her own personal nanny, a generous godmother, jaunts to New York, a chrome and hand carved wooden swing set, riding in her father’s 1950 M.G. touring car, or her uncle’s Rolls-Royce to a yacht club or a polo match . . . these are every day people and things in the life of a girl named Emmy. Emmy's father, Mr. Agostini, is a Don Quixote obsessed aristocrat, and her mother, Mrs. Agostini, is a spoiled Southern belle. Emmy is a girl given to fancy, making her life even more colorful. Nevertheless, there is trouble in paradise.Early in the story, Emmy is told by her father that she has her own, personal, guardian angel.The story paints clear and searing portraits of wickedness, cruelty, unconditional love, sacrifice, chivalry, wealth, arrogance, humility, and those ephemeral characteristics of hope and optimism in the face of insurmountable predicaments.The screenplay adaptation (unproduced) of this book has already won a Gold Award at the WorldFest International Film Festival. A Gone With the Wind kind of story set in the era of Madmen (late 1950's). Emmy, the daughter of an eccentric aristocrat and her beloved nanny suffer the whims of an evil socialite. Ages 9 and up.