Fiction Samples Archive

  • Madam Ivana Soshnikov’s 400 pounds of Russian borscht-fed blubber swallowed the small table and chair. She squatted behind her glass fortune-teller storefront.  It didn’t help that the humidity of the...

    Breaking Enigma (Excerpt)

    Madam Ivana Soshnikov’s 400 pounds of Russian borscht-fed blubber swallowed the small table and chair. She squatted behind her glass fortune-teller storefront.  It didn’t help that the humidity of the...

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  • Fine bits of dust settled on the alabaster window ledge. The silk curtains once stilled by night’s embrace rose as a warm southern wind lifted them, rolled into the parlor...

    The Soul Thief

    Fine bits of dust settled on the alabaster window ledge. The silk curtains once stilled by night’s embrace rose as a warm southern wind lifted them, rolled into the parlor...

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  • Still soft. Still warm, the bullet had entered and exited through the carotid artery. Blood pooled like so much antifreeze spilled from a radiator, already seeping into the venerable hard-wood...

    Candy

    Still soft. Still warm, the bullet had entered and exited through the carotid artery. Blood pooled like so much antifreeze spilled from a radiator, already seeping into the venerable hard-wood...

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  • Just two hours before, Lieutenant Michael Caldwell sat behind auto controls of his police hover craft contemplating retirement and finishing his lunchtime supplements. “You know,” he said to his stouter...

    The Door (Excerpt)

    Just two hours before, Lieutenant Michael Caldwell sat behind auto controls of his police hover craft contemplating retirement and finishing his lunchtime supplements. “You know,” he said to his stouter...

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  • Axis Six leapt onto deck 27, a crew recreational and sleeping area. With that, Jingle, Swift, Allen and Keep darted off down an adjacent corridor.  Sikes, Labcoat, Hand and Daredevil...

    Storming the Dayton (Excerpt)

    Axis Six leapt onto deck 27, a crew recreational and sleeping area. With that, Jingle, Swift, Allen and Keep darted off down an adjacent corridor.  Sikes, Labcoat, Hand and Daredevil...

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