Twenty-three years ago, the 'bulls' appeared in orbit and destroyed Earth's infrastructure in less than ten seconds. These days, the alien invaders aren't as much of a problem as the surviving humans are.Evan Greggs learns that things aren't always as bad as they seem, but sometimes the choices to be made are as murky as they are difficult when it comes to living on The Farm, a community of survivors near the Cascade Mountains in central Oregon.When a detachment of the old ...

Eighteen-year-old Connor Dunsmore was about to begin his professional hockey career as the top NHL draft pick when an on-ice accident shattered his life's dream. Eight years and over five hundred stitches later, he's become a fan favorite as an enforcer for the Boise Bombers of the United Professional Hockey League.Off the ice, Connor also moonlights as an enforcer for Costache Ojacarcu, the Bomber's owner, and head of a discrete Romanian organized crime operation in the Treasure V...

Career criminal Billy Jensen and his pals have plotted for more than a year to take down Gennady Konovalov's jewelry store. When the plan doesn't work out exactly as planned, the survivors go into hiding.Not only are the Dolgoprudninskaya, the second largest Russian organized crime syndicate in the world, searching for Billy and his crew, but the Dolgo's biggest rivals, the Solntsevskaya, have joined forces with them in an attempt to recover the seven million dollars' worth of stol...

Stephen Brewer is never sure when he wakes up if he's been asleep, or if he has died and has been transferred to a new clone body. As an agent for the National Defense Directorate, he and his fellow Transfer Agents are the perfect undercover operatives.After chasing two of the world's most wanted criminals across four continents and multiple transfers, the NDD finally has a chance to end their reign of terror and bring them to justice by disrupting their plans to hold an entire sta...

The Minotaur is a collection of novellas and short stories in the Horror and Science Fiction genres:"The Minotaur" - 12-year-old Billy Jacobs battles the devil for his soul in a game of pinball."Members Only" - How much would you pay to experience your darkest desire?"Symbiosis" - 'I know how you feel' is no longer an empty platitude thanks to the latest STRIKE therapy for soldiers returning home from comba...

Today is my 40th birthday. It's also my last day on Earth.I get to do anything I want today, within reason, as long as I make it to the portal before my time is up.What I want is to spend the day with Cara and my two young children.I don't know what awaits on the other side of the portal, I only know that certain death awaits me here if I refuse to go.Some light adult content14,600 word short story/novella

The sequel to "It's Better This Way" finally arrives after a five year wait!What seems at first to be a simple mission to destroy Base Charlie quickly becomes a test of inner strength and morality. Evan Greggs' resolve to end the potential threat Base Charlie and the remains of the United States Army poses to The Farm is further hampered by the army's modern amenities and Colonel Rebecca Collins.Evan questions his place at both The Farm and Base Charlie, but the re...

Evan Greggs continues the twenty-three year search for his sister, Sandra, in this fourth and final installment of the "This Way" series. Armed with only his weapon, the two pictures of Sandra drawn by Luna Payne, and the information given to him by an older man who was present during the destruction of Corvallis soon after the Bulls invaded Earth, Evan prepares to journey to Helmet's stronghold near Snoqualmie. Torn between his obsession with finding his sister and remaining with his trav...

"Countdown" is a companion story to "Departure."Andreada is only 20 and looking forward to the second half of her life before she has to step through the portal into the unknown. She's young, in love with Navine, and leads the typical care-free life of those who reside in the city. After a terrible mistake, she is left with only two choices: step into the Justice portal reserved for criminals and misfits, or flee to The Bower district, a lawless u...

Salvatore Antonelli, a disgraced ex-bishop, and Benito Castillo, a young tech-priest fresh out of Seminary, are tasked by the Vatican to confront DAMON-1, a nuclear capable AI that claims to be Satan incarnate, returned to the physical world to bring about Armageddon.The two clergy must battle to restore DAMON and purge Satan from the enslaved AI's core. The bishop is forced to play a deadly game with billions of lives in the balance, while the young priest must confront Satan's di...

Launch Sequence I - One week ago, Dennis Shaw was a typical twelve year old boy growing up on Daedalus-IV. Now, with an unstoppable Kai invasion fleet only hours away, Dennis is exposed to the challenges, the decisions, and the horrors of adulthood when his family is forced to flee aboard a strange starship hidden inside a secret mountain base.As Dennis attempts to come to terms the terrifying conclusion of the Kai's promise to exterminate humanity, he is ...

Evan Greggs returns to The Farm after a disastrous fight with the Bulls at Base Charlie near Crater Lake. With so much loss eating away at his conscience, it's time to tie up any loose ends and once again resume the search for Sandra, his older sister who has been missing since the day of the invasion twenty-three years earlier.Evan, Tony, and Dru must navigate the harsh post-invasion world of Eugene's gangs, Corvallis' utter destruction, and the erasure of humanity's cities thanks...