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Dorian’s Task – Excerpt

Indira was all business as soon as Dorian was ejected from the dome. She quickly unwound her blood soaked bandages, watched them trail to the ground. “It’s growing.” She murmured. She wiped away at red slicked skin with her bare palm, uncovering and array of metallic scaling that snaked around from her upper arms and ... Read more...

Dorian’s Task – Now Available

I’m thrilled to announce the publication of my LGBT space opera DORIAN’S TASK in ebook and print formats. Book One of the Nyacene Record, this story serves as a fleeting prelude to an interstellar war that spans the known worlds of the Nyacene universe. The Nyacene Record explores a variety of relationship types and their ... Read more...

Starchaser #8: Give You Courage

How long she laid there in a stupor, Laila had no idea. By the time the pain finally subsided, the strange water had seeped back down into the earth. The rest of the eggs that had washed up were scattered about already dying, wrinkly and glistening in the declining sunlight. That’s right. Night was about ... Read more...

Starchaser #7: The Wild

The heavy air of Bentokal sliced into Laila’s lungs like razors. The rickety suspension bridge swayed under her feet as she ran. Way down below, frothy rapids threaded through the lush valley between the two mountains. The shrill cries of one alarm after another nipped at her heels. She kept running full tilt across the ... Read more...

Starchaser #6: The Weird

The domicile was a massive habitat built into the right incline of the cleft between two massive hills. Rooms had been carved into the stone. Knotted rope ladders led to the plateau above. The Bentokal Principality’s headquarters sprawled out from center of the plateau just shy of the edges overhanging the domicile. Laila dragged her ... Read more...

Starchaser #5: Laila

“You see? That thing got scared and crawled out of your head.” Laila’s eyes sought out the source of those cryptic words. She was in a cold, cavernous place far removed from the warmth of the room in which she’d been about to bed down to sleep. A strange metallic scent clung to the air. ... Read more...

Starchaser #4: Runaway

Was it her or Sumida who screamed? Bex couldn’t tell. A massive beak with teeth clamped on to her arm and sent them crashing to the wall. She tried to shield Sumida, who crumpled to the ground. Bex froze at the sight of the metal-head who’d followed them into the corridor. It was a Collector, ... Read more...

Starchaser #3: Fray

When Bex and Sumida crossed into the territory of the Borja, they were given a pair of personal fliers. They were ancient models and low on fuel. They wouldn’t get far but they would get them up through a gap in the honeycombed outer walls of the Borja colony to the next vertical level while ... Read more...

Starchaser #2: Sumida

“You stinking little turd!” Bex yanked out one of her side arms and shot the cackling head. “You absolute, frigging lowlife!” “Ow!” He hooted, too elated by the prospect of Bex getting what was coming to her to give a rat’s ass about his own pain anymore. “You should really do something about that itchy ... Read more...

Starchaser #1: Hegira

Severed heads weren’t commonplace, even in one of the crime-ridden shantytowns that sprawled along the rims of Hegira’s surface canals. Winny frowned, her gut churning when Bex plunked the dripping bagged thing down on her counter. Just as Winny got to wondering whether her human foster-sister had finally gone far enough ’round the bend to ... Read more...