What begins as a lovely day at the fair in the village of Pepperdine leads to danger and intrigue in war-torn Albion as Deirdre and her friends race to unravel a plot that might end in disaster or worse. There are things more dangerous than battles and campaigns to be found the fair fields and lovely skies of this ancient land. How is a simple Surrey farm girl to sort it all out?…
|| WATTYS 2022 WINNER ||Don't ever take anything from me. Don't ever wrong me. I try hard to be a tolerant and a forgiving person, but I am unrelenting in my vengeance and my desires. Thirty years ago, a man wronged me, stole from me the most precious thing in the world, and I've been wreaking my vengeance on him ever since. I don't give up, I don't stop, and I don't ever just go away. I'm a drinker of blood, and I live the life I choose.…
The sequel to the Watty Award Winning Story, "The Drinker of Blood," is here at last! Don't mistake me. The destruction of my enemy Whitefarrow was a source of great joy for me. But true happiness wasn't something that simply landed in a person's lap. No, happiness was a thing for which a person needed to fight. It was a goal that needed to be seized. A year after moving into the New York City home that I shared with my sweet friend Fallon, there still were things that needed my attention ... things that needed adjusting. But some things never changed. Don't ever try to take what is mine. Don't ever wrong me. I remain a drinker of blood, and I will live the life I choose.…
Alec Larkin lived a life filled with blessings, until one day life grew dark. He awakens in a foreign land, a place seemingly very much like his home. But it dawns on him that something is different. He and those who arrived with him must ask hard questions and take terrible risks to find out. Where are they?…
Superhumans live among us. It is the greatest secret of the 21st Century.Tommy Haas likes it that way. He wants nothing more than to be left alone, to live a quiet life with his beloved Rhonda. But the universe and the federal government won't let that happen. Tommy is stronger and more talented than any human being has any right to be. It doesn't matter that he's a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen. To be different in that way is to be in danger if the authorities find you out.And now his friend Amy Lascar is missing. No one knows where she is or what has become of her, and the police scarcely even bothered to mount a search. It's that way with a lot of people like Tommy, exceptional people who simply have disappeared. Along with his valiant friend Sam Babington, Tommy intends to find Amy.God help whoever gets in his way.…
|| WATTYS 2021 SHORTLIST || Some people just want to be left alone. Even the best plans have blow-back, consequences no one ever saw coming. A year after the events of 'Murray Hill' finds Sam Babington, Tommy Haas, and Camille Thomas struggling to manage the unexpected consequences of taking a stand against the government. Resistance never is easy.…
"I've been the villain of a thousand stories, and I'll be the villain of a thousand more. Don't ever lose track of that fact just because I'm the hero of this one." The adventures continue, as Tommy, Sam, Camille, and their friends struggle to maintain order in their ever turbulent world. Is it too much to ask just to be let alone? Starting in April, 2020!!!…
What happens when you experience something that brings into question all you know about the world in which you live? Something that eats away at the already-frayed notions many of us have about what is true and what is not true? About what is possible and what is impossible? For Alice Caitlyn (Kate Johnson what was), the past year already had delivered a healthy dose of body blows. One would have thought a chance encounter with a handsome schoolmate from years gone by would have augured well for things to come. But when was Fate ever so easy or so generous?This is a story about the world in which we live and how we come to know it and to understand it. It's a story about chance and circumstance, one that might even be a little funny. (But let's not get too carried away on that note.)Most important, it's a story about friendship and love, those two states the absence of which make life and its vagaries scarce worth pondering.…
Tormented, robbed, and murdered by their Gheet neighbors, the Surrey folk of the County of Blenheim are a battered and cowed people in their own land. It's what happens when you lose a war.Deirdre is just a Surrey farm-girl, but when the Gheet murder those she holds most dear, she refuses to sit around and wait for her own slaughter. She wants justice, she wants vengeance, she wants blood, and she's willing to do anything to get it, even if that means selling her soul to the fiend, a dark and malevolent creature that lurks in the far-off barrow in the blackest woods of the forest.One way or the other, she'll have her vengeance.The Revised and Edited version of "Wergild" is now just a click away on Amazon, for a paltry three ducats! Your patronage is very welcome!http://amazon.com/author/borislslocumTrigger Warning: If anything upsets you, anything at all, don't read this story.…
|| Sometimes in Space Things Disappear ||Nadja Bikram traveled to the distant and alien world of Skiathos to work one problem, a puzzle that had vexed her for seven years. But on reaching the savage desert world, she found the planetary survey team she was to join in disarray and its leader missing. It was up to her to take command and to sort things out, but she swiftly discovered the harsh and brutal planet held a hidden danger, one so lethal and dreadful that it threatened them all.Nadja would need to use her every wit and to risk her life and the lives of those around her to find out what it was. But would she find the answer before it was too late?2018 Wattys Shortlist || Magic Awards 1st Place in Science Fiction…
This is a story about the future, fear, flight, and facing the inevitable.…
This is a short story about fear, felony, and the future.…
Sometimes people don't want to look in the mirror. A short story (a very short story) about future intelligence and what makes us uneasy.…
