Shane, Evelyn, Connor, and Valerie. Non-siblings bound together since conception by a connection only they have. They also share an invisible friend.But not all invisible friends are necessarily imaginary.Consider Anotrothe. Friend and gentle guardian with powerful psychic abilities, he is invisible to everyone except them until they are twelve, when he appears and becomes a teacher at their school.One day, he tells them that the connection they share gives them the...

Cady and Sam don't like excitement. So, they have good reason to love their lifestyle in the small town of Matthews, N.C. They've got a cute kid, good jobs, great neighbors, and their home beats the wheels off their last address. Unfortunately, interruption rears its head when it's least expected, leading to that unwanted unrest they've been avoiding. What's a couple of homebody werewolves to do?

These Five stories predate the Boucher's World trilogy of "Emergent","Transformations", and "Encounters":SEED (A novella)In an event that that initiates the Boucher's World saga, a young spaceexplorer, a member of a psychic race called Elwists, is stranded on analien planet and has to learn to survive among primitives.*SWALLOW AND DOVE: A TALE FROM THE TURMOILS(A novella)Dove is an unusual Elwist, one that is spoiled and used ...

Charlotte, North Carolina, is an area where earthquakes are uncommon, but one bright morning it is struck by one so vigorous that it forms deep crevasses in the ground, knocks out communications, and leaves the city in disarray.Can a bodyguard and the bodyguard's two clients who were about to board a private plane along with a tag-a-long passenger, get to the bottom of why their trip to Columbia, South Carolina has been so disastrously interrupted?They don't know, but havin...

The dead body and illicit drugs in Paul Hampton's bedroom have him making a rapid retreat from his rented duplex. There's also something else in there, and it has his brain wobbling.It's the middle of the night, and when you're in a crunch and need a place to stay but have worn out your welcome everywhere else, family is supposed to help you out, right?That might depend on what happened the last time they saw you, and whether or not you tell them the truth about it now.

It is the year 2047 and twenty-five-years-old Tennessee Murray has realized his ambition to teach and his dream of publishing a book. He is preparing to marry the love of his life and things couldn't be better.Then one morning he steps out into foggy weather and finds the world has taken a turn for the extremely bad.In a matter of minutes, half the population of Earth dies in a horrible fashion. It's not an ultimate war or biological disaster, and no oversized meteorite hit...

He awakens with a task to perform. A lilac-hued woman dances in his forest clearing.She is human. He is not.It is… a beginning.

Red has planted her very first vegetable garden. She is tending it when she makes a surprising discovery: fish aregrowing on her tomatoes.With the help of friends that are… let's just say they are as unusual as Red, she sets out to learn why this has happened -and why flocks of birds are trying to steal the fish.(Set in the universe of Cady and Sam, a short story series about werewolves and other paranormals.)

The teenage years can be a stressful time. However, for Lyssa Brunner, life is pretty smooth. She is an only child and has parents that cherish her and sees to it that she has the best of everything.She is sixteen years old, a little shy, a little nerdy, and a lot naïve. She enjoys school, where she is a model student making good grades. She looks forward to attending book and chess club meetings, playing online video games, going to the occasional sci-fi or fantasy movie, and hangi...

Jack Warslow is a small-time thief. What happens the night he breaks into a big house in an affluent neighborhood has him desperately wishing he'd never seen the house or picked up the small cat that belongs to the homeowner. He thought he was ready for anything but he learns just how wrong he is and that there is no such thing as something for nothing. There is always a price to pay.

Shaniqua Jones smokes like the proverbial smokestack, and was asked by a friend when and why she began smoking. This is her explanation.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth...A short story of time travel and faith...