In the near future, over thirty black alien ships carrying a race called the Wannoshay crash-land across midwestern America and southern Canada. At first, humans and aliens attempt integration, but it's a hard future plagued with terrorism, violence, suicide cults, and designer drugs. When mysterious explosions at factories employing the aliens are blamed on the Wannoshay, they are forcibly transferred to internment camps. Soon the aliens begin to succumb to a strange disease called "soul curdling" and the sickness seems to be spreading...to humans An unlikely group of humans, with even more...

Magic: more contagious than the common cold...

One wintry morning in Dubuque, Iowa, Kelley Strickland gets "triggered" by magic after reading from a strange book she shoplifts. And her twin brother Jeroan meets an old man who infects him with magic as well. Soon there's an outbreak of contagious magic in Dubuque, Iowa.

Wild magic: the side effects are painful, if not fatal...

When they find themselves hunted by an ancient, power-hungry Sorcerer and his over-sized operatives, Jeroan and Kelley must act, before this wild epidemic of magic turns deadly for...

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. A young woman struggling with drug addiction catches aliens on her digital camera. A man with elemental powers struggles with morality and carrying out the orders of his bosses. The dead leave their graves and take up... surfing? Gunning for the Buddha collects fifteen stories that range from near-future science fiction to historical dark fantasy and contemporary horror, touching on a range of genres in the process. These wide-ranging stories were previously published in magazines such as Asimov's, Strange Horizons, The...

Sometimes those who can't be found just might not be lost...
As the co-founders of Finders, Inc., Hank Johnson and Bim Mayer spent the past two decades successfully solving mysteries and-almost miraculously, in many instances-finding missing people in the remote mountain town of Boone, North Carolina.
Until now.
Their most recent case deals with an outbreak of missing elderly people, all of whom used to teach at nearby Appalachian State University. With the help of teammates Juan and Marly Hernandez, along with Shelby Jamiston, a sharp new private investigator Hank...

Magic: It can show up in the strangest places...
An old man sleeping in a cardboard box in snowy Chicago holds the secret of sorcery in his head. Thanks to the damage done to him by using magic decades ago, he doesn't realize it. Most days he can't even remember his own name.
But when two teens try to jump him in an alley, the magic Words come back to him at last, and he "infects" the kids with magic. And soon Chicago has a wild epidemic of magic on its hands...
An earlier, but still self-contained version of the novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic, but with a slightly...

First contact between a priest and an alien...
Less than a dozen years from now, over thirty black ships containing the aliens the world will come to know as the Wannoshay arrive on the frozen earth of the Great Plains of America and Canada.
When communications break down between the military personnel of the humans and the leaders of the Wannoshay, Father Joshua McDowell gets a chance to make first contact with the aliens.
And just as he thinks he has come to understand the aliens and his new friend known as Johndo, Father Joshua realizes he has a lot more to learn. And...

Bartolamus the Sorcerer is dying. His days of adventuring and forging new words of magic are firmly behind him. Or so it seems. As his trembling apprentice approaches his bedside with a silver whistle in his right hand and a tarnished bell in his left, the ancient wizard shares his history. He also reveals his plans for one last quest: an attempt to re-open the doors to the barred and mysterious City of All-Worlds, far away and spoken of only in whispers. For the locked City of All-Worlds is rumored to hold a portal at its center that could link other worlds to this one. A portal of immense...

Retirement: it's not just for the elderly.
Thirty-six-year-old JB lives to inspire the old folks at Whispering Pines Rest Home. He listens to their stories, encourages them to get some fresh air, and makes sure they aren't just sitting around waiting for the end to come.
But he's not a doctor, not a therapist. He's a resident of Whispering Pines, too.
When the finances for Whispering Pines hit the skids, the Home starts to earn the wrong kind of attention. And JB is left to confront the harsh reality of his past, and the reason he dropped out of life to retire three decades...

An unlikely team of misfit players, and the coach fighting to hold them all together...
In his first season as head coach of the All Nations team, former slave George Grunion contends with racist crowds, low team morale, and... the ghost of the previous head coach.
And if George can't hold the All Nations together, he loses more than his job and his team. He'll miss his chance to fulfill the prophecy made by his prescient centerfielder Mack - that George will be reunited with his estranged family before the 1918 season ends.
If George doesn't score this final run, he loses...

Some family curses really should be passed on...
Tommy Roling does everything humanly possible to raise his infant daughter Corinne the right way. But a half year out of high school, Tommy finds himself a single parent as well as flat broke.
And, with every full moon, he can't fight the urge to strip off his clothes and run wild through the pastures outside town.
So when a stranger shows up, slashed to death, the day after Tommy's most recent full-moon run, Tommy must resolve this murder or he could lose what little he has left. That includes his innocent baby girl Corinne,...