For the first time all FOUR books in the TALES OF BUFFALO COMMONS series are collected together. During a near future ecological collapse the Great Plains of America were left to nature, but when wealth returns to civilization so too does the desire for a New Frontier. But those looking to get back to the land soon come into conflict with the squatters that never left. And enemies of the state choose this time to start a proxy war in the middle of North America that threatens to bloom into...

BEFORE THE BEGINNING… On his 15th birthday, BILL MAGELLAN is getting his first voyage into space when his family moves to Space Colony Lagrange 5 for the summer. But no sooner has he arrived when he’s teamed up with the strangest little kid he’s ever met. A brilliant twelve-year-old who doesn’t know how to talk to anyone his own age because he grew up on a space station with adults. And just as they’re bonding, a stranger enters the picture who may kill everyone. So what happens when the o...

We don’t have to ask whether Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have a top secret manual for controlling parliament because that scandal broke years ago, unfortunately they've never released it (or anything else for that matter). Thankfully we’ve been able to reverse engineer the various ‘White Papers’ they're using to ruin things from what they’ve said, done, bragged about, and lorded over us. And to help you become the Ultimate Insider we’ve included earlier drafts and footnotes giving even ...

From updated versions of classic fairy tales all the way to original stories full of raw hate and vitrol, GARY DAVIDSON takes the children's story back to its cruel, bitter, heartless and vulgar roots. Lessons in today's life, unheeded warnings, political satire, and immorality tales abound in this collection of bedtime stories no child should know until they've already had their innocence ripped from them like a trout plucked from the river for dinner. From a tale about a century old maje...

When Anna and her best friend, Susie, finally get horses of their own, they enter a new world of horse shows, fox hunting, eventing, responsibility and boys. In this sometimes scary but always exciting environment, Anna learns what true horsemanship is, and makes two new best friends forever: a boy named Jim, and a horse named Johnny.

Matilda May had a pet goat named Tappy. Tappy followed Matilda everywhere. One evening when Matilda was on an errand for her mother, something startled Tappy, and she started running. Matilda chased her, trying to catch up to her. Before Matilda realized it, she was chasing Tappy through the forest. They were running farther away from home. She did not remember which road she had taken. The roads leading from the forest looked the same. She would have to choose the right road back to her h...

The unimaginable happens when a pair of high school teens let loose their prized class project. A fashionable humanoid robot worthy of the highest levels of admiration. Taking on a mind of its own, their machines sets off on a course of its own that will eventually lead to internationally renowned incidents of immense proportions!

Excerpt:I looked past Gramps and saw my grandmother with her arms firmly crossed. She wasn't your typical grandma. You know, the kind with fresh baked pies sitting on the windowsill. My grandmother was... Well, she was more like a warden.I slowly approached her."Hello, Eliana." She awkwardly gave me a half-pat-on-the-back kind of hug."Hi, Grandma; thanks for taking us in." I tried to chisel through the ice."You're welcome," she replied stiffly.

Musicians have multi-person jam session with a range of instruments; I had a solo jam session with a range of writing prompts. While in a homeschool writing course, I had to write a story a week for 36 weeks, and that was pretty cool. The result was a 36 story anthology. Take the survey at the end of the book to vote on which short story should be expanded into a book. Also look at the link to the writing course to see which short stories were the prompts to the stories I wrote. Let yourse...

A short story from the world of Department 19.In 1891, Abraham Van Helsing and a group of friends faced Dracula, the world’s first vampire – and won. The survivors of that battle founded Department 19, and have been secretly saving the world ever since. A highly classified archive exists recording every act of bravery in that time.That archive is now open. These are the Department 19 files.Secret Department 19 headquarters, present day.Larissa Kinley is a fu...

The Midwestern United States often brings to mind images of corn, tractors, and cows. But what if those ideas were wrong? What if the Midwest had a majestic tale that set it apart in history? What if there was a cat who could talk, a boy who dreamed of more than a fishing pole, and a Cyborg from Chicago who never wanted anything more than a friend? This is the story of The Feline Inheritance, which is inspired by the fairy tale, The Master Cat / The Puss in Boots, by Charles Perrault.

Penny Black hasn’t had it easy. Just about everything you’d expect to happen to a harassed foster-kid turned junkie has happened to Penny. Add in the mysterious power to rewind time, conducting events around her, and it’s a wonder she held up on the streets for so many years. Now, at seventeen, the New Society has found her. Finally, Penny is where she belongs. But that doesn’t stop the visions, or the need to protect the victims shown to her.