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For most of his life, a psychic investigator survived straddling the line between the living and the dead. Though tormented by the horror that can befall others, he remained safe seeing things unfold like images on a screen. Then a unique vision entangled him in someone else's life and he finds himself...

Set against the background of the beautiful Croatian countryside and its simple villages, DESTINY'S DOWRY is the story of a baby taken immediately after birth to a place she did not belong. Here, she is raised to believe she was born to a woman who died giving birth to her. When the baby becomes...

The year is 1913. More immigrants are coming to Gary, Indiana. Stevo Markovich finds himself making room for relatives of his deceased wife who arrive unannounced disrupting his life with the problems they bring with them. He is greatly saddened by the death of his wife and others....

Count Stefan Vladeslav is wandering about Marshall Fields department store while waiting for his wife to be fitted for a dress. He sees the art gallery and enters, lured by a sign promising beautiful paintings of New Orleans women. In the gallery, he finds a painting of his previous wife, Barbra,...

At the turn of the 20th Century, immigrants coming to America, though not related, often made strong family bonds, as if related by blood. Stevo Markovich left the immigrant community in Gary, Indiana and returned to New Orleans where he made friends with several people who helped him become...

Taylor, Texas - 1915 16-year-old Danica does not want to live the life of her Croatian immigrant parents. She wants to be an American girl with her modern haircut, clothing, and attitude. Her mother dislikes Danica's desire for education and independence. A marriage is arranged with a local boy from...

AD 454. Three years after the Roman victory over Attila the Hun at Catalaunum, Arria Felix and Garic the Frank are married and enjoying life on Garic’s farm in northern Gaul (France). Their happy life is interrupted when a cryptic message arrives from Arria’s father, the esteemed Senator Felix,...

I'm sorry for this. I really am, whatever happens. I've never been one for planning, ironically. A mind like mine, and everything fell apart anyway. I've learned that things change, especially people. I've changed. I've lost things. Things we all probably needed. But no sense dwelling...

When the world civilization we live in now collapses sometime in the twenty-first century, it takes 400 years to rebuild it to a modern technological society. The story is set near the 400 year mark as elements of the society begin to be unstable once again. The major characters struggle to maintain...

Don is a retired electronics engineer. His wife dies and he moves to a small town, Hawarden, Iowa. He finds a metal covered door in the basement he purchased there. It leads him to another basement like the one in his home. The upstairs is almost the same. The town is also Hawarden and is almost the...

Alex is an 18 year old male who is captured by aliens on his colonial planet. He escapes after a ship wreck, and he makes his way to a settlement where all of the men are sterile, impotent and angry. Rather than let him become sterile, the King exiles him to a far continent where he makes his way...

This is a collection of twelve alternative fiction short stories in which the characters are challenged to cope with environments and situations that are beyond their understanding. Some of the problems are deadly, and some are confusing problems to be solved, and some are both. Two of the...

She was trying to run from her own problems and make a new start far away, but when Cassie stops off to visit her Aunt, she gets tangled up in an odd and dangerous situation. Deciding to stay until her Aunt is out of danger and the criminals are apprehended, Cassie had no idea what she was getting involved with. There would be no way out, and she would never leave that town.

Seventeen-year-old Anya Kane can never forget the night her mother died. No—the night a green-eyed man with a scar on his left eye killed her mother. But believe it or not, she’s learned to live with it…to live with her pain. She’s even learned to be happy. Cue in a mesmerizing boy...