R L Saunders: 37 books

A collection of short stories from new voices - the breaking edge cross-currents of mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. From our authors at Midwest Journal Press - from works published between November and December 2018. Worlds new or perhaps re-visited - but only you will...

Can the future be saved by returning a woman to affect the present? Peter was a perfect gentleman. When he showed up at an all-woman's club unannounced, the defences came up. Mari met him, surrounded by women like herself who battled criminal men daily. There was no longer any need for physical...

Of course it was a normal day. SNAFU - as usual. But no one noticed. Because it was so normal. So SNAFU. The world felt more and more programmed. Or pre-programmed. Life had become a video game, a matrix-spawn. All around me thought this was normal But no one considered that I...

How do you defend against a person who could kill you with a single touch? An unforseen bi-product of terrorists bombing a children's hospital, the Lazurai were deadly. A mere touch could spread that killer virus to others. Even downwind, without a sneeze or cough to start it. All that...

The Complete Hooman Saga - to date... There are stories before and after the moment a single young girl crash-landed on Earth and was rescued by telepathic wolves. Those stories explain how the major cities seceeded from their national governments on Earth and rose as one to take off...

A Simple Job: Make a Delivery and Get Paid a Fortune - Or Die. What he was driving was an up-armored trailer rig. And was getting paid a fortune to deliver something to a fortified city. To someone who had a fortune to spend on it - if he only survived long enought to cash in. The...

Our Second Civil War was over in minutes - while the conflict took decades. As in all wars, both sides lost heavily and then proclaimed victory. I knew this all too well, serving as a paramedic to patch up their wounded and dying. I'd gotten myself into 'Cagga to solve my nightmares....

While Marj is helping urban archeologists, she discovers a secret map that she hides from the authorities. It tells of an underground system of tunnels that cross through mazes of paths under North America, using old limestone caves and aquifers, even connecting to the old ICBM missle bases.  It...

Julie Montcalm had a problem, or two of them. Horace Hackett Jr. was behind deadline for a story she needed. But the worst of that is he had written her into the story itself, as a character. Along with her friend and fellow classmate Micah DeWolf, she was living the story itself as Hackett...

**Ever wonder how all these Romances and Academic papers get written? ** Interestingly, most of these authors have pets. Cats, particularly, who like to type. Seriously. But you'll never know it. Because they get into your dreams at night and make you think you did all that typing.  Of...

Only a Frump could be elected in this modern age.  Because no one trusted a man to get anything right anymore. The first female president fit the model, and this reporter was putting the pieces together on how she got elected.  She simply put a new approach to classic poltical ploys....

Only a Frump could be elected in this modern age.  Because no one trusted a man to get anything right anymore. The first female president fit the model, and this reporter was putting the pieces together on how she got elected.  She simply put a new approach to classic poltical ploys....

The third time she was beaten up by a different roving city gang and this time left for dead. The guy who saved her life wanted to help solve how she ended up that way. What wasn't working was to be anything they wanted. White, Black, Male, Female, Gay, Straight - someone was always offended,...

Indecision has been known to kill people. In politics, it just makes fund-raising harder. That's why we gremlins love the politicians. When they built Washington on our swamp, we got the best deal out of it. Us and the faerie-folk. Until then, we only had the natives and the migrant...