Civilizations must make sense somehow. But was this one the gaudy, impossible exception?

These are the adventures of a rag-tag mercenary company called Poltergeist's Marauders. These battles take place in the Aurigen Reach of the Periphery of the Inner Sphere in the year 3025 after centuries of war.
Added Chapter 7

A cowboy looking to retire out in the country stumbles across an alien crash site filled with sexy aliens... one thing leads to another and... well read and find out! Not your typical spaghetti western, but there is spaghetti!
Added Chapter 7

A Star Guardian Story (2)
Brian continues his travels among the stars.
Added Chapter 43

Explore a Venus that never was. This is Venus as science fiction imagined it, as it might have been. Explore the hot, humid, muddy planet and meet the aliens that populate it.

A five-year-old boy can communicate with his dog via think-talk. The little boy finds another friend, a panda, to make their trio dependent only on themselves, not to include his parents. His mother goes nuts, thinking they can read her mind, his father isn't so sure at first. How independent the little boy, dog, and panda become is the shocking and creepy ending you won't forget.

This is a parody of corporate management in a world where unions own the means of production and the managers are treated like factory workers.Faced with a corporate system that is breaking down - workers want immediate dividends rather than investments in developing new products - management goes on strike to readjust the power between management and unions.

A man with a past, not tied to anyone makes a startling discovery that changes his life and his perceptions of it.
Added Chapter 70

Hi, It seems that as I was writing down the combat log of Poltergeist's Marauders, I made a mistake of not keeping to the correct pronouns for Medusa. He was not happy. It's all been fixed now. I hope. Thanks.

Chapter 42 is out. It should be available soon. Book 2 has been going for about 7 months now. If you spot any glaring errors, please let me know so I can fix them. Duncan

A successful hero flees his home world after subjugating the Dragon Queen and her hosts to start anew on a young, fresh world only to encounter politics. Again...
Added Chapters 6,7

A scientist is hunted for what he has created.
Added Chapter 23 (final)

A very, very old man learns how wonderful sex can be.
Added Chapter 3 (final)

A cowboy looking to retire out in the country stumbles across an alien crash site filled with sexy aliens... one thing leads to another and... well read and find out! Not your typical spaghetti western, but there is spaghetti!

A very, very old man learns how wonderful sex can be.

Refined, revised, revamped, re-iterated, and many new chapters and scenes added. Please comment and vote! Trying to learn the craft. I value criticism. The story is time travel in it's infancy. Model T, Wright Bros.Biplane, hollowed log canoe levels early technology of time travel.

I am working on edits to the next two chapters. I am trying to incorporate suggestions from some readers. Lots to do. I'm always learning and hopefully I will improve with experience. I hope you all enjoyed the labour day weekend. I took time off to spend time with my grandkids.

Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered aside the rising tide of narcotics-mania, the gambling fever, the insatiable lust for the irrational. Jeff had his own all-consuming obsession--Paul Conroe must die!After a five-year frenzied chase, Jeff had his victim cornered; he'd driven him into the last hideaway of the world's most desperate men--the sealed vaults of the human-vivisectionists...

For generations they ran from the Hunters, but the Hunters had found them again. All prepared to flee except...

Zeckler was a con-man, a human con-man. But he had no idea what he was up against when he decided to try to outwit the Altairians, an alien race that believes telling the truth is a weakness. Really he never had a chance.

A successful hero flees his home world after subjugating the Dragon Queen and her hosts to start anew on a young, fresh world only to encounter politics. Again...

It's not so much the decisions a man does make that mark him as a Man--but the ones he refrains from making. Like the decision "I've had enough!"

He was the most powerful man in the world. He could make anybody do anything--and yet he was the slave of a mad criminal's mind!

Rootless and footloose, a man in space can't help but dream of coming home. But something nobody should do is bet on the validity of a homesick dream!

There were but three days in which to decipher the most cryptic message ever delivered to earth.

An Earth colony battles for freedom.

Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but the fury of a biochemist scorned is just as great --and much more fiendish.

Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star...and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant revolutionary. a rogue who had a date with destiny. Although he lusted after a rich baron's daughter, Rodvard was ordered to seduce the saucy witch-maiden...

From_ where _had these attacking Indians come? Out of a long forgotten and dim past? Had their medicine man seen the one supreme vision?

With one suitcase as his domain, Arthur was desperately in need of armed henchmen. for his keys to a kingdom were typewriter keys!

This guard smelled trouble and it could be counted on to come--for a nose for trouble was one of the many talents bred here!

Sure, Larry Connaught saved my life--but it was how he did it that forced me to murder him!

apocalyptic, and post-apocalyptic. military, time travel of a sort, cyborgs, parallel universes, cast of thous...several characters, over a dozen.

A man is taken then returned. He's not the same or is he? Now with a lot of questions he leaves earth to search for the only other one like himself, so far.
Added Chapter 19

The rock in space was not quite a sphere, being far too tiny a bit of cosmic debris to have sufficient gravity to round off its ragged corners. One side was rough -- like a ragged mountain top that was broken off at the peak and hurled into space by an all-powerful hand. Slowly the Scout Ship edged closer, braking with forward jets. Was this it, at last -- the missing asteroid?

Harry Scott is being pursued by some things. They're not human. They're not-men. A door bangs. Footsteps tread heavy. A phone ringing. Can Doctor Webber help poor, delusional Harry?

As some of you know I've been having a major issue with the Gestapo since mid 2015, the extreme limitations on my movements and the stress of the delays they cause resulted in me becoming very depress ... more

Well I have just uploaded the edited chapters into the queue and they should be available soon. Just some spelling mistakes I made that I didn't catch on the first, second or third read through.

Took a while to wrestle it to the ground, but Phantom of the Louvre has been posted. All the other tales in the collection flow (some directly, some not so much) from this story. This is longish for a ... more

Chapter 40 is in the queue. I do about 3,000 words per chapter, so that is about 120,000 words. According to writer's digest, a word count > 110K qualifies as an epic fantasy, or saga. I only sta ... more

From the Phantom of the Louvre collection
In the final months of the nineteenth century, Paris revels in being the City of Light. Yet it is hard, and often dirty, work to maintain its place as the pinnacle of civilization. Someone must deal with mysterious sightings, thieves falling from the sky and breaches in State security. Someone like M. Vautrin, confidential investigator... ~9,000 words. [Advisory: aeroships and orange cats play significant roles in this story]

These are the adventures of a rag-tag mercenary company called Poltergeist's Marauders. These battles take place in the Aurigen Reach of the Periphery of the Inner Sphere in the year 3025 after centuries of war.

Chapter 39 is in the queue. Brian comes up with a solution to their problem. But how long can they survive without coffee? All this will be revealed and more, same bat-time, same bat-channel...

Doctor Coffin, in collaboration with other doctors, discovers a cure, but it has a surprisingly strong side effect.

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
The Sisters of Battle, get some literary attention.

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
A young couple out shopping. What could possibly go wrong...

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
An attempt at a darker side of 40K. Some day I wouldn't mind going back to this and adding more chapters.

Just a word to let you know, I've had a death in the family. Haven't felt much like writing, I hope I can again soon. I try to a little each day though it is difficult. Pars001

I took a few more days to get chapter 34 out. Lots of family commitments going on. I tried a dream scene, which is new for me. I am also using some new grammar checking software to help with the editing. Any feedback, errors or ideas are welcome.

What a rush! Over the last six weeks, [CORRECTION: SWMBO says it's a good thing I wasn't an accountant - "last ten weeks"] I've posted nine shorts - NOT written, just final edits and posting. For at ... more