Stories Starting with R

A writing prompt that I decided to build out into a story. I was thinking of the old twist at the end pulp stories in terms of the genre with a bit of a supra-normal element. A Reddit subreddit called r/red63tennis has some strange coincidences until one of its users seeks some help. It's a short piece but I had fun writing it.

Clara is a classical pianist, with 'special abilities,' some of which she knows and some of which she has yet to learn. She was trained by Mossad. Wait... Mossad? She finds herself in an unusual situation: searching for her fiancé, trying to get help from MI6, tracking down some terrorists, who are somewhere, doing something unnice. And what's the story with her father?

A The Catalyst Story
Alex has a mission to find as many new followers as he can in the limited time he has left as he comes to grip with the knowledge his abilities will likely kill him. Before that happens, he hits the road with his sister and Gail. Along the way, they learn much more about him, his followers and about leading a mission when one doesn't know the way. He needs enough followers to build a new branch on the evolutionary tree, but has a limited time and needs to stay below the radar as he does it.

The plans for the Ziegler heat ray have been stolen and are presently in the Arvanian embassy, where they are officially off-limits to the Americans. The American Secretary of War expects them to be smuggled out of the country at any moment. Arvania will then develop the weapon and, despite its postage-stamp size, become the most powerful nation on earth. The next logical step will be for it to declare war on the United States, which will lead to its downfall inside of three months!

The exciting first novel in the "Radio Man" series of stories starring Myles Cabot. Read about his advent on the planet Venus, his encounter with the Ant-Men and the Cupians (human-like beings).

When Myles Cabot, inventor of radio transmission of matter, found himself alone on an unknown continent of the planet Venus, he realized that getting back to his old headquarters and his loved ones presented some impossible problems. He'd have to settle a war between primitive natives and an unholy alliance of monsters, dinosaurs and giant insects. He'd have to build an electronic device from raw rocks and untapped resources. And if he succeeded in all that, he'd still have to find his way home

Unfortunate castaway! Marooned far from home--with nothing to share his loneliness but humans!

Armed with splinters of steel, two ant-sized men dare the formidable mysteries of a termitary.

Alone and unaided, Pilot Travers copes with the invisible foes who have struck down America's great engine of war.

Childlike, the great astronomer Phobar stands before the metallic invaders of the ravished solar system.