G F Kaye: 10 books

Jerry headed to the street. Her night wasn’t over yet. Crossing to the loft, using her pass card, she let herself into the building. Walking down the inner hall, she checked her mailbox with a glance. Clicking through the lower doors, thinking she was going to really be glad to shed the heels, she...

It was supposed to be what Pete Hawkins, P.I., sometimes referred to as a simple ‘who’s poking fun at who’ case. He was working undercover at a ‘retired’ mob boss’ party for a client that wanted to know who the guy might be playing footsie with. That was all. Then someone took the short...

Stacey Britten was calmly reading her Times one morning when something in the lower corner caught her eye. Someone had attacked a young man in an alley, stabbing him in the neck with a T-bone from a steak; a grisly weapon, to be sure. That isn't why she took note of it, however. Several years ago,...

Ivana Sergeiyevna Modorina, star programmer, control, and tactician of Marlowe, Inc., had just come in from a night of clubbing. Spotting a bevy of patrol and unmarked cars of the NYPD a block away from her loft, of course she just had to investigate. Follow one of the favorite characters of the Marlowe,...

There was once a belief that if a witch's hair was shorn, she would lose her powers. Terry finds out, the hard way, that this just is not the case. Not at all. So what is a boy with a witch's essence inside him going to do? Well, give her a new home. of course, as with anyone else, this...

Even a wizard can make mistakes. The trouble is, when a class 2A wizard does it, it's usually a corker. Enter Bertrand Magnus McGowen, wizard, class 2A, if only recently and somewhat begrudgingly. It was a simple thing. he was trying to perfect a spell that would move large quantities of goods in...

Diko decided to land the scout in a likely looking pocket of atmosphere conveniently near a cluster of the odd life-form’s dwellings. All seemed to be working properly. There didn’t seem to be anything it had to particularly watch out for, so it entered a landing pattern into the autopilot and...

The ages-old prophesies had nearly been fulfilled. It should be a time of rejoicing, but Avondeira, more commonly known as Dera, also Branna, among the clans of the steppes, seeing the frown on her daughter’s face, asked, concern apparent in her voice, “What seems to be troubling you.” Kasela,...

Denis Halliday has an avatar. No big deal. Everyone has them. They're almost universal. People use them for e-mail, chat rooms, on the social networking pages, and even as game pieces. The difference between those and his, however, is that, unbeknownst to him, his avatar has an agenda of its...

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... is a unique periodical of long form fiction published three times a year. Each issue provides an eclectic collection of novelette and novella-length speculative and literary fiction. In this issue: In Hope Endures Where Life Persists, a decades-long...