The wolf pups had smelled the fresh blood, and in the heritage of their ancestors raised their noses and began to howl. And as their cry reached the wind and mixed with the screams of the wounded, all those in the valley knew the avenging angel of death had begun its march. Again the head appeared. The Klaskov fired--Red watched as the head rolled out into the clearing and a short fat body slowly fell behind it. As he aimed the Klaskov at the remaining pile he heard someone from behind it ...

He paused for a moment to look up at the shadowed suns and then went on saying, "But I think now, this cold will keep their scouts from being too active. Their bodies need the warmth. They are very demanding and unrelenting creatures. I once lost twenty slaves to them, my entire cargo ... It was my first run to the south. Perhaps with the increased cold they will not be so hungry and their demands less severe." He yanked on the lead leashes saying, "Come now, we must be on our way. We have...

Ruben Silverstein is a heroin addict. Ruben is a dying man who discovers a faith he has never known and strength he never possessed. Love is lost but gained for the runner who saves his life, only to lose her own integrity. Not realizing he has become a prophet Ruben carries a message of impending disaster. He tries, but fails for no one will hear and in the end many die, their deaths the result of valueless society, manipulative corporations, and self-serving political systems. The Cold W...

They had begun that segment of their journey in the early morning's light just before the rise of the first sun and with Billy riding Silack at an easy trot had continued their trek across the plains, stopping only for a brief rest at mid-day. The rocx alternated their pace between a walk and a trot until finally on the second day, in the late afternoon, they reached a clearly marked footpath winding its way around a series of rock-edged, table top mounds and through shallow rugged canyons...

There was an abundance of life on the planets when the flickering of the star first signaled the beginning of its death. Many looked upward in despondence and desperately prayed for deliverance from the unfeeling cruelty of the darkening star as shadows begin to dance across its face. They called their sun Tannex and while it slowly wound its way across the many horizons it seemed to twist in a crippled path as though it were a great wounded beast struggling against their skies. The fear g...

There are many modern day sports involving horses: running, jumping, dressage, the Paso Fino of Puerto Rico, the sled pulling of New England, jousting tournaments in the castles of Wales, endurance runs across the Rocky Mountains, and many others, including the fascinating sport of horse archery in which a rider, at full gallop with bow and arrow, engages a series of targets. Magdalene and her Icelandic pony Baldur are champions of the sport. A true warrior, she has trained from early age ...

For twelve years, the virtual world of Yggdrasil has served as the playground and battlefield for the skeletal lord Momonga and his guild of fellow monsters, Ainz Ooal Gown. But the guild's glory days are over, and the game is shutting down permanently. When Momonga logs in one last time just to be there when the servers go dark, something happens-and suddenly, fantasy is reality. A rogues' gallery of fanatically devoted NPCs is ready to obey his every order, but the world Momonga...

When Sora's swallowship is taken out by a swarm during the war she is rescued by Merlin, a legendary man who has allegedly discovered a super-weapon built by the Way creators; a gun so powerful it I said to have stopped the previous war. Sora is sceptical, though, for Merlin has been missing for ten thousand years, yet he has not aged a day. As the current war between aliens and humans intensifies, the need to find this weapon becomes unquestionably urgent. They must find the gun before th...

Hain, a sentient plant creature, defies instinct and genetic imperative by holding herself separate from the planet-encompassing vegetative super-intelligence known as the Mother. Hain wants to explore the stars but when she finally encounters aliens, her destiny is forever changed.This novelette was previously published in the anthology: The Alien Chronicles. It is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella.

Garesh is just your average everyday alien/human hybrid agent living and working on earth. It's his job to protect humanity from the reptilian race known as the Vorma Zaxer Brood. The Brood broke all intergalactic protocol corrupting earth from the benevolent Alnorn race that Garesh is descended from, of course his father was a poor abductee but that's besides the point. Who wants the agents dead?

Each man has a measure of luck given by destiny, but not a drop more. Has the luck of an unusual guide responsible for the passage of visitors into the deep buried bellies of alien ships just run out? His newest client, a young woman named Janita, proves to be a member of the resistance carrying in her body an alien civilization’s gift to humanity. Will either of them become the devil’s martyr? One story gives life to another, waiting all along…At the Publisher's request, this titl...

Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents to any of the four worlds becuase of unique microscopic symbionts that make it impossible for visitors to leave the Diamond.Seeking a unique solution, each of the four worlds making up the Diamond is sent a person whose mind has been stripped of everything and who is now controlled by an agent of the Confederacy.Lilith is the first planet to be visited...