Elizabeth returns to RoYds; an Agency that investigates the paranormal. A bit rich of RoYds really, especially when they have several ghosts and a pair of fallen angels on their staff. Then again, Whituth is no ordinary town, nor Refuge of Delayed Souls your every day ghost story. . . .
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When sixteen-year-old Sam Hain runs away from home, his troubles are only just beginning. Seeking shelter in the mysterious Golgotha estate, he is forced to confront a myriad of supernatural creatures and manifestations that inhabit the place. With nowhere else to go and no one to turn to for help, Sam has no choice but to deal with the strangeness . . .
Original works of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Ten years of novels, short stories, and serial fiction. All free. . . .
If you were the bane of existence cursed with catastrophic power, would you choose to save the lives of those who abused you, or witness and bring upon their demise? The Dark Crystal, and the Light Crystal, contain magnificent power, but together create an unparalleled path of absolute annihilation. But each carrier is destined to defeat the other. So, . . .
The New Bedlam Project follows the adventures of numerous and sundry characters found in the past, present and future of one messed up little town. Originally started as a companion piece to the Courting Morpheus anthology, the webzine has taken on a life of its own. We publish several short stories and a selection of poetry in each quarterly . . .
Two assassin teenagers discover that their first hit is a miss, and they attempt to kill her again, which sets off a chain of events that sends them on several adventures. . . .
Animal spirits, the Unseen, are tired of being ignored by humanity and so they orchestrate a devastating war amongst the humans, forcing humanity to once again turn to the spirits in need. Once or twice a generation, a human is born with a strange condition known as the lacking: they only possess half a soul. Some among the Unseen are . . .
Everything you know is wrong- there are plenty of gods but no afterlife, wizards plot rebellion against eldritch horrors with marketing departments, the Chinese Mafia runs the phone company, every tarot card is a prophesy waiting to happen and most vampires live in trailer parks. Read on to visit a world where every cliche is a parable, every fairy . . .
The new students to the Addergoole School knew it wasn’t going to be an ordinary boarding school from the start: it was in the middle of nowhere, and nobody’s parents were telling them anything. When it turned out to be in a bunker, hidden under an old barn in a cornfield, some of them started to think that this was . . .
There are three of us. One lost everything and was born again into the night. The second was already a lady of the night when it embraced her. The third feeds on darkness and delivers anger and death. We three disparate Shadows can only fight each other, until a larger threat looms; the threat of Rome. Together we will . . .
Vera Langstrom, beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, is dead. She finds herself in the depths of the ocean, where lost souls wander unguided in dangerous and unbalancend afterlife. . . .
Human beings are transient creatures. The impermanence of life is tightly interwoven into society—the young are taught by the old so that they, in turn, can teach the next generation when the old has passed on. People are raised in a transient world. Everything eventually breaks down. Plants wither, mountains erode, and eventually the planet itself will come to . . .
Elizabeth is the princess of Arkhenia and Chosen servant of Ars Telura—the most important god, which makes her the most important Chosen. Unfortunately, the populace at large fears and distrusts her because her powers kill things. Felix is her twin brother, Crown Prince of Arkhenia. He, like Elizabeth, was born without the tiny bit of magic everyone in Arkhenia . . .
Feb 15, 2009: “Refuge of Delayed Souls” is a rich, complex paranormal novel containing multiple mysteries and ghost stories. The chapters move between points in time, developing several plots, as they jump from the present to the past. Nothing and no one is quite what they seem. The mysteries in “Refuge of Delayed Souls” unravel through the eyes of Elizabeth, a woman who can see dead people. This gift leads her to the Refuge of Delayed Souls, a place for those who have not moved into the Light, and for those who are [more . . .]
May 13, 2009: I have to admit I have slightly mixed feelings about The Shadows of Sicily. I thought it was some kind of historical fiction, and as an archaeology student that immediately got my interest. However, in Chapter 4 I finally got what the Shadows really were, and though I liked the fact I was surprised, I’m not quite sure I like where the story is going, just because it isn’t quite my genre.
Anyway, plot and character-wise the story so far is [more . . .]