collections of short stories

A carefully crafted selection of short stories based in the same world as the realistic and gritty fantasy novels 'Almost a Myth,' and 'Slaughter by Strange Means.' A soldier running from a burning city, a woman dreaming of a peaceful life past, a warrior on a deadly mission, a lawman investigating a murder with no killer; all these unique tales are set in a familiar yet distant world in turmoil.

Try and Other Stories is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories set on strange and different worlds.   Yet the  humanity of the characters and their thoughts, hopes and dreams remains the focus:

An ineffective soldier in a world completely deprived of technology by alien tourists who want to hunt their exotic prey without interruption.  A street dealer squeezed between powerful drug lords and a surveillance state.   Two brothers squabbling while the threat of total destruction of life on earth approaches. 

Written in clean, clear prose these short stories are grounded in our reality, while encouraging the reader to imagine themselves elsewhere. 

What if the old tales about what happens after death are true? Would a gun that could think let us pull the trigger whenever we wanted? What would you do if you saw something huge in a river that shouldn’t be there? And it saw you? What if aliens came, turned the power off for a week and then went, without even bothering to talk to us? What if someone got really good at making huge, genetically engineered soldiers? What if an emergent AI went insane and corrupted our digital world?