Here, you will see some samples of some of short stories which have been previously published. I will also update links on this page to other articles and stories which may be published on the Internet, or links back to magazine sites which offer paper publishing. I will also offer you samples of some of the novels I have written.
Please be sure to drop me an e-mail and let me know what you think of my work.
SHORT
STORY SELECTIONS:
Attempting to escape from life for just the weekend, Ken suddenly finds himself wrecked in the lonely back woods of Arkansas. Having wrecked his vehicle, his head badly cut, he feels totally alone with fear rising in his very soul. A stranger finds him and changes his life forever. .
A lonely, desperate journey to find the ultimate salvation. Two unlikely strangers meet, bonding for a quest to find the answers of humanity's future. . .
Trapped by a government which has betrayed her, a desperate woman is faced with the most horrible choice imaginable--betray her very soul, or sacrifice her own flesh and blood. . .
Caught in the fury of a nova, Entarra, its people and their civilization are all but destroyed. Talera, a Seeker, realizes the only hope for her race requires the sacrifice of another world's evolution. With her two closest friends, she remains on the now desolate wastelands of Entarra to begin her greatest, most desperate experiment.
Earth,
2068. Geoffrey Statten finds himself recruited by OmniTech Corporation
in a plot to overthrow the United Earth Government. Leading an ultra
secret
mission to Mars, Statten searches for evidence that life may once have
existed there. By proving this, OmniTech will discredit the government
and expose the truth to the
citizens
of Earth. Statten, along with the crew of the Endeavor, reaches
Mars.
There, they uncover a secret so terrifying, no one can possibly
anticipate
the impact it will have on the human race.
General Julia Farrengton discovers Statten's mission and will stop at nothing to destroy him. Disbanding Earth's government in favor of military rule, she incites civil war and orders a full attack on the entire civilian population. Launching herself to Mars, Farrengton vows to crush Statten and the secrets he has uncovered. When humans and Entarrans meet, Statten and Talera must unite their peoples in a fight for ultimate survival.
Copyright
1998, All Rights Reserved.
Coming Soon To This Site
LEGENDS RECKONING
The second in The Winds of Time trilogy. After two years of pained reconstruction and new birth, humanity is learning to survive in peace and harmony, along with their new found companions--the Entarrans. But darkness looms once again on the horizon, a shadow which threatens to finally crush the life's breath from every living creature on Earth.
Geoffrey Statten and Talera, armed with the still yet untried, new faster than light wings of the Endeavor, stand ready to sway this new threat until the still yet unfinished Earth fleet can be launched. When Julia Farrengton makes her appearance and brings with her revelations powerful enough to destroy minds, Statten must fight against hope itself in order to save billions of lives.
STORM KEEPER
With the Escaartan Empire's first wave pushed back at the cost of more than half the Earth's population, humanity's future survival is slim. Most of the major cities are now in ruin, the stellar fleet obliterated. But the Escaartan's will not rest until they have reclaimed the Sol system as their seat of power, and destroyed all life currently living there.
FORBIDDEN WHISPERS
Jamie
Clark has found everything she had ever hoped for in life--a loving
husband,
the career of her dreams, an old Victorian home ripe for complete
renovation,
and a complete peace and solitude she had struggled her entire 33 years
of life to obtain. When she receives a package in the mail one
day
and reads the manuscript included, her life and everything she has ever
loved abruptly ends within a web of government cover-up and espionage.
. .
Have
you ever wondered just what exactly is "up" with all the hype
concerning the paranormal and the realms of science fiction these
days? UFO sightings and alien abductions are nearly common place
in today's society. Psychics have their own television slots,
ghost busters are growing fame in leaps and bounds. I find myself
drawn to many areas of the "paranormal world", mainly in the areas and
somewhat naturally for me, as a writer of science fiction, to
investigations of space itself and also UFO research, debate,
investigation, and mental exercise in stretching for explanations for
these happenings.
Recently I had my own encounter of something which can not just be
explained simply in the least. Luckily, I was not the only
observer of this event but after it was over and I sought all of the
local news networks, radio news broadcasts and newspaper as well, I was
actually shocked to see it was never actually reported to any of these
mediums. I took it upon myself to go ahead and report this to an
Internet forum in the hopes that eventually, someone else who witnessed
the same event as I did might actually post their own version of what
was such a fantastic observation and then perhaps it would give me more
of a degree of credibility myself. I also strongly feel full
sympathy now for the people who are actually witnesses not only to what
can be called "UFO" activity but witnessing any form of a sighting of
anything having to do with any particular "branch" or "form" of what is
commonly dubbed "paranormal". The vast majority of the human
population will, at some point in their lives, have an event played out
for them personally which is so profound and so contradictory to what
is taught us our entire lives as what is "normal" that they have a very
valid fear of coming forward and telling others what they had
personally witnessed for fear of redicule and jokes. Many times,
an experience which will happen to a person is so profound for their
personal psyche--it is not only understandible for that person to
immediately begin doubting themselves and ultimately their very own
senses and it becomes very easy to convince yourself what you saw,
felt, heard or witnessed in any way must have been nothing more than a
their mind simply playing tricks on them. It is so much easier
for a person to talk themselves into accepting this as an explanation
that it is simply better to accept "it never happened" rather than
become seen by others as a complete loon.
For
my own official report of the event, please see the posting filed on
the UFO Evidence website by clicking here.
(http://www.ufoevidence.org/sightings/report.asp?ID=9467)
I would also encourage you to post your own reports of strange events
which have happened in your life as well. Remember, if we can
somehow manage to convince ourselves how vitally important it is to
report these things instead of just forcing yourself to forget it even
happened to you--science will never be able to actually ever pick up a
thread or method of actual ways to seek out, learn and understand how
it is these things can and do happen.
In summary, I had just gotten off my work shift and was on my way
home. David and I live within a very short distance of our
workplace so even on the busiest days of traffic, we have no problem
reaching our home in more than a ten minute time
frame. Also, our work site is directly next to
Interstate 540 which is typically very heavily traveled at any point
during the day, and as a matter of fact, my own sighting took place in
the late afternoon and just before actual sunset and I-540 is within
clear sight of where I had pulled my truck over to get out of my
vehicle and observe the craft which was simply hovering silently, and
every so slowly rotating so I was absolutely certain there had to have
been a lot of other people seeing the same thing I was. I won't
bother repeating the full report on this page as it is already posted
on the Internet and I have given you the link to see the actual report
itself. But I must say that when the sighting was actually
over, I found myself completely bewildered by my own reaction to the
event I had personally witnessed.
I have longed for such a sighting for so long in my life. I used
to envy the reports from different individuals and often found myself
wondering if the day would come when I would actually get to see any
such strange phenomena myself. I had always thought if it ever
did happen for me, I would most likely be so excited to actually see it
I would have literally been jumping up and down and exclaiming to
anyone within earshot my sheer overwhelming excitement. My actual
reaction could not be further from an excited reaction.
While this was taking place, I found myself actually going into full
and concentrated analytical mode--noticing the noises around me, the
way the now setting sunlight was reflecting off the surface from the
object, trying to gauge the distance from ground to the object itself
by different landmarks and trees in the very immediate vicinity, the
exact number of seconds it took the object to do a full rotation as it
slowly spun while hovering in place just above the tree tops...
I discovered while I was observing this happening that what my mind was
actually trying to do was making every effort to disprove in any way I
could rationalize that this was truly a human made object and nothing
that could be considered as not coming from this Earth.
Personally, I failed in this and to this day, I'm left with only being
able to say with conviction that I simply have no idea whatsoever what
this actually could have been. I won't say it was a
spacecraft. I won't say it wasn't. I simply do not know.
But also in retrospect, I realized fully that the way my mind worked
analytically, this fact may very well give me a full advantage about
getting very serious about making steps in my own life to actually join
with other dedicated investigators seeking hard evidence, scientific
data to fully explain different phenomena, and maintain a somewhat
clinical detachment from the subject matter itself in order to fully
seek evidence which will make some sightings so crystal clear as
absolutely "unknown"--because this is the only way "serious" science
will ever accept full research into the many mysteries typically
associated with "paranormal" as exactly what it truly is--pure science
application seeking complete understanding.
Also at this point in my own life, I have been forced to accept there
is another gap so profound in my understanding of the universe (as we
currently know it) in the pursuit of seeking answers to what becomes of
each of us upon our physical deaths. This need has become strong
enough within me that I am now also seeking joining with a professional
paranormal investigative team who is dedicated to collecting hard
evidence and scientifically applied methods to achieve facts and with
that, further acceptance in academia to continue seeking further
answers. In short, I'm working to become an actual and
professional "ghost hunter".
We are taught in science that energy can neither be created, nor
destroyed but can only be changed in nature or form. The living
human
body is full of neural energy--this can be measured by the transmission
of electric currents across nerve synapses and this is an absolute
medical fact. The question remains--since the physical laws of
nature dictate that energy in whatever form can only be changed in
actual containment--where exactly does the neural energy go when the
body dies. Is this energy potentially the scientific evidence of
the actual soul?
The world has taken a somewhat fantastical leap into the realms of the
purely "unknown" and the "strange". Although I am a firm believer
in the possibilities of all of these things existing in our world
today--I am also a very firm skeptic, and practice the devout hand of
the scientist on every new account of these happenings with the
precision of a hard-nosed investigator.
As should you all be.
But remember--investigation for the truth is a never ending process. ..
I
have also had many very deep and personal experiences in the area of
spirits, or ghosts. Recently I had another experience in this
realm and as I said the need to try to find a level of understanding
for how and why, when I have an exprience in this, it leaves me so
completely full of questions which burns so intensly I can no longer
ignore the need for understanding. Call this a spiritual or
personal religious wake up call if you like--no matter how it can be
labaled, the fact remains I need to do what it takes to gain a better
understanding of why, how where.
So, with that being said, you can be assured I'll post my progress here in this site for you on the progression of my own journey in all of these areas. I would also encourage you to look beyond your question of "should I give this a try" because if this sounds like a familiar question to you, then you have been asking yourself this question way too much already. Stop asking. Just get out there and do it.
