A young girl happens across a jazz bar one night and starts fixating on the piano player. She wants to get to know him better, despite his attempts to persuade her otherwise...

This is a 6 story collection of short stories from across my writing career: PRICES WE PAY (1999) This is a dark fantasy/horror story about a man who falls for the wrong type of girl at a bar... This was the first story I ever completed. Many times I'd started writing epic fantasy, but I got lost in the whole attempt and gave up. this one marked a turning point, because I actually saw the story through from beginning to end. A FATHER'S DUTY (2002) This was one of the first stories I ever wrote. It's a short story about a father taking revenge upon a noble for the man's mistreatment of his...

A hermit named Gale lives in the far north of a world in the early stages of an ice age. He lives alone with no human contact, but he has a bear-like companion called a Murthan. One day they rescue a woman seemingly left to die in the elements. Her memories are sparse, and she has no recollection of who she is, or why she was in the vast snowfields. Gale and his Murthan companion nurse 'Autumn, ' as they name her, back to health. After she recovers and learns what it is to live the life he has chosen for himself, Gale and the nameless woman head south to retrace her steps. She learns that she...

Stiles is a survivor, and he'll need every bit of his survival skills when he's thrown into a strange new universe with hundreds of worlds linked with hidden portals. His only guide is a strange device attached to his arm, and he has no idea who put it there or why. After a little traveling though, he finds a couple more humans, and takes up the trail with them. He travels from world to world with his companions to find a lot of answers, and to hand out a few beat-downs. The universe is a lot more complex than he initially thought though, and he spends most of his time trying to get answers...

A lonely young woman finds a letter mistakenly dropped on the street near her home. When she reads it, she's moved by the emotions expressed by the man who wrote it, and she begins to fixate on the sender. When she sends him a letter of her own after sending the letter on its way to its intended recipient, he's less than pleased about his letter being read by other than its intended, which is a woman who he intends to marry. Things get more complicated when the writer apologizes, and they begin a correspondence, which her best friend, and the writer's intended wife learn of and don't agree...

Marcus Schatten, a man with a shadow that has a mind of its own, literally, is betrayed and sent to work off a prison sentence on the border. There, he must guard the last kingdom of mankind from an evil that has consumed millions of lives. The Light Walkers wait just across a wide band of rain-drenched lands, wanting to pillage the last settlements man has built, but the technologies in this land are great enough to hold them at bay. Still, there are those that guard the border against any invaders, and Marcus must find a way to survive his two year sentence in those dangerous lands...

About Pancake & Hen: Follow two adventurous youths as they explore, finding magic and wonder in every corner of the world Flights of Fantasy: The Nature of Names Pancake and Puppy Brown Bread and Wool The Mud Hole Trap The Ghost in the Garden Blanket Thieves Grandma Rooster and Hen War in the Willows Diamonds and Gold The Season Tree

About Pancake & Hen: Follow two adventurous youths as they explore, finding magic and wonder in every corner of the world Visions of Childhood: The Nature of Names The Castle in the Willows Contrary King of the Ants Of the Elderly and Kissing Touching the Sky Caverns and Toadstools Mother Versus Father A Visit to the Pond Goes Awry Tanglemouse and Mr. Samson The Forest Dragon The Egg of Dreams The Shade Tree and Old Man Weather

THE JUDAS EFFECT: Earth, and the other inhabited planets within our solar system are beginning to search beyond our star for new homes on distant worlds. Judas is one of the test pilots sent out among the stars, utilizing Underspace, which is like a parallel form of reality where the speed limitations the laws of physics in our universe impose on us can be bent if not broken entirely. Judas crash lands on a remote planet after accidental contact with the material that comprises Underspace. The planet is inhabited with two native races, both of which are significantly less technologically...

About Pancake & Hen: Follow two adventurous youths as they explore, finding magic and wonder in every corner of the world The Complete Collection: The Nature of Names The Castle in the Willows Contrary King of the Ants Of the Elderly and Kissing Touching the Sky Caverns and Toadstools Mother Versus Father A Visit to the Pond Goes Awry Tanglemouse and Mr. Samson The Forest Dragon The Egg of Dreams The Shade Tree and Old Man Weather Pancake and Puppy Brown Bread and Wool The Mud Hole Trap The Ghost in the Garden Blanket Thieves Grandma Rooster and Hen War in the Willows Diamonds and Gold The...