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Negative Space: A Collection of Short Stories
""Bugged"" Patrick has a bug problem. - ""Smith"" Peter has a special set of skills. Too bad they're someone else's. - ""Digits"" Amethyst couldn't care less about the Crystal Numbers. She just wants to go home. - ""Heading Home"" Inzhu was banished from her village, for being a teenager. - ""Stranger"" When you talk to strangers in grocery store parking lots, you never know what you're in for. - ""Life's Work"" The world-simulation servers keep shutting down because they're too introspective. - ""And a Star to Guide Her By"" Captain Salucci can't steer her ship, because somebody didn't fill out the right forms. - ""Masquerade"" T.W. Masterson throws the best parties. Everyone's going, living or dead. - ""Kill Switch"" Dr. Vanderveldt would really like it if her robots would stop trying to kill everyone.
First Lines
""Crabtree Confidential"" - Your typical noir whodunnit set in an artificial reality * ""Control Issues"" - Universal remotes ain't what they used to be * ""Dead To Rights"" - The zombies are back, and they brought their lawyers * ""Bearing Gifts"" - Someone or something has given humanity everything they could want... almost * ""First Lines"" - Temporal Auditing's on the trail of a multi-timeline serial killer * ""TimeLand"" - Kill Hitler, get a t-shirt in the gift shop on the way out * ""To Be Continued"" - Barry Lawrence has a habit of completely failing to die * ""Children of Earth"" - A Curator Ship finds an artifact floating in deep space * ""The Long Game"" - Clara has always had a robot to take care of everything * ""Ghosts of PGC357B"" - When you're on a rock in the middle of nowhere, the last thing you expect to run into is ghosts * ""The Gauntlet"" - Jayita is a technician on a giant robot lunar sports team *
A Matter of Scale
Welcome to Willow Falls, where dimension-tripping werewolves, angels popping through walls, and a teleporting cat are all part of an average day. Not that Cass buys into any of that nonsense. But, when dragons, actual dragons, sneak into her back yard at night to make a mess of her trash bins, she finds it impossible to ignore. Not knowing what to do, Cass turns to her eccentric new neighbor Charlie for help. Together the two, along with a ragtag group of oddballs, strive to discover more about these creatures. Where did they come from? How did they end up in the woods behind her house? And how does the teleporting cat fit into all of this? Cass must wrap her mind around a new reality of superscience, parallel worlds and time travel in order to keep her scaly new friends safe from the shadowy corporation bent on exploiting them and possibly all of Willow Falls.
Paths Less Traveled - A Collection of Short Stories
""Hack and Slash"" The robot uprising happened over a fortnight. - ""Dead Sexy"" Two rules about vampire lap dances: 1: No hands. 2: No teeth. - ""Gaia"" The Champlain investigates a hostile planet. A really hostile planet. - ""Adrift"" Hannah has a habit of drifting sideways through time. - ""Paths Less Traveled"" Harper's standing at the crossroads of life, afraid to take another step. - ""Admissions"" Celia was dead, to begin with. - ""Disconnect"" A wizened figure appeared before Carleton. Ugh. Another stupid, pushy popup ad. - ""AinÕt That A Kick In The Head"" Something had just fallen through Lloyd. How rude! - ""Drive"" Drive, she said. - ""Star Struck"" Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket.
Dandelion Seeds
Dandelion Seeds: Karen Durning finds herself captain of a spaceship containing the last remnants of humanity: 500 nerds and one insane A.I. * Flesh and Blood: A super-intelligent A.I. refuses to do anything useful until it gets a precise definition of "harm". * Temp Work: Retrieving artifacts from the past is tough work, but the hours are good. * Scaled Down: Dragons suddenly show up out of nowhere, and that'd be great, if they'd stop knocking over the trash bins. * Loaner: Rich dead people run the economy, and like to take the living out for joyrides. * Indistinguishable From Magic: If you inherited a potentially dangerous artifact, who's the first person you'd call? * The Butler Did It: Robots are everywhere. Everyone's got one. One small problem: Their A.I. is based on the brain scans of a serial killer. * Death Takes a Lunch Break: Encountering a skeletal figure in a hooded robe pretty much guarantees you're not having a good day. * ...and 10 more stories I scribbled down in my spare time.
Scatter Plot
"A Hole in the Sky" - Things are looking up... with telescopes. * "Book Keepers" - Librarians rule! No, seriously, they rule. * "Batterie de Cuisine" - Aliens would like to have humans for dinner. * "Cat Flap" - The problems involved in living with a hyperdimensional cat. * "Invasive Species" - Alien brain parasites have invaded. No one's above suspicion. * "Feedback Loop" - The robots killed us all off, then felt a bit bad about it. * "Contact Paper" - Flying saucer? How cliche! * "Magic Markers" - You can do magic? Expect a visit from the Feds. * "Relation Ship" - A mining operation quickly turns into something else entirely. * "Character Study" - Are we living in a simulation? Flip a coin.
Rogue
A quirky, twisty scifi/adventure/romcom set in space. Canterbury is one of thousands of ships wandering interstellar space. Life on board is quiet, stable, regimented, stagnant. Siblings Kendal and Rowan are bright, imaginative and adventurous. Kendal routinely takes “shortcuts” by leaping out of airlocks. Rowan snoops through Canterbury’s restricted Archives, looking for ancient conspiracies. In short, they’re “troublemakers”. When one of Rowan’s wild conspiracy theories turns out to be true, the two (naturally) dive head-first into a cascade of events involving a rogue planet, an unexpected visitor, a malevolent A.I., and the very reason behind Canterbury’s existence. And they have to do all this while dealing with familial obligations, politics, romantic entanglements, not to mention Rowan's coming of age and subsequent gender assignment counseling sessions.
The Chime
Alfred Lee was a recluse. When Benny Jackson arrives at his door, mysterious forces began attacking.
A Matter of Scale
Welcome to Willow Falls, where dimension-tripping werewolves, angels popping through walls, and a teleporting cat are all part of an average day. Not that Cass buys into any of that nonsense. But, when dragons, actual dragons, sneak into her back yard at night to make a mess of her trash bins, she finds it impossible to ignore. Not knowing what to do, Cass turns to her eccentric new neighbor Charlie for help. Together the two, along with a ragtag group of oddballs, strive to discover more about these creatures. Where did they come from? How did they end up in the woods behind her house? And how does the teleporting cat fit into all of this? Cass must wrap her mind around a new reality of superscience, parallel worlds and time travel in order to keep her scaly new friends safe from the shadowy corporation bent on exploiting them and possibly all of Willow Falls.
