Nick Hayden: 14 books

Five short stories of wonder, desire, and mystery from writer Nick Hayden (worksofnick.com), bound together by a sense that something exists beyond the natural that we haven’t quite found yet.The stories include: The Memory – It was a memory more precious than any other she had, and it...

Spanning genres from humor to science fiction to everyday life, this collection of flash fiction gives the reader snapshots into 50 different worlds. The stories here were originally published at www.worksofnick.com. Proceeds from book go toward the 7th/8th grade D.C. Trip fund for the school where Nick Hayden is a writing teacher.

I had willingly joined the legions that dove into the unknown. The romance of this world stirs my soul; I cannot live in peace in lands already known. But when I awoke in the sand on that beach, I had lost everything, my every comfort and my every necessity. I had spent the previous week in that dying...

Vienna is a small Midwestern town like a hundred others, but if you look closely, it has its stories. Collected here are five stories from Vienna, where ordinary people encounter the big questions of life. In "Transitions," a young man has to decide whether he's ready to grow up....

When scientists stumble across the perfectly preserved body of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the first question is: How? But as one scientist spends his life studying the extraterrestrial crystals that caused its preservation, his questions become deeper, touching his deepest fears of life and death."House...

When they joined the Story Project, they shared only one thing: a desire to tell stories. They didn't know that they were the story. In the wake of Cassandra Talbot's sudden departure, Katrina takes charge in her no-nonsense manner, but the other members forget that she has issues of her own....

The Story Project is the dream of one man, but it is the lives of thirteen others brought together over the course of one year. Their journals chronicle loneliness, longing, and love as a house of strangers struggles to become a community. But it seems everyone hides a secret…. They came because...

Natalya is an American mom and wife with a Russian name working as a spy for the Brazilian government in a Midwest American town. Balancing dual identities is dangerous--and sometimes comical--especially when her husband hasn't a clue. Morana is on a suicide mission to transmit a bestial virus...

Celebrating the first anniversary of Children of the Wells, Destinies Entwined is a collection of short fiction expanding the world presented in the first five novellas. Within, you’ll read about:-The backstory of the soldier who took Calea’s arm, written before The Well’s Orphan was...

Once, Jaysynn Kyzer traced the skyline of Thyrion in the guise of the Watchman, aiding those oppressed by the Thyrian regime. Now, witnessing the abuses of the popular uprising known as the Defiant, the Watchman returns to convince people there is a third choice besides an old tyrant or a new one....

A Children of the Wells story collection. "He stopped to dig the pen from behind his ear. He wrote in the margins of that age-old book these words: The Wheel is broken. Yes–yes, that was the center, the thesis, the seed. If the structure which they had created, if the rules and systems which guided...

Book 3 - Thyrion is ruined, and so is Calea.Shattered by the discovery that magic is gone even in Thyrion, Calea is left to pick up the pieces of her life. With nowhere else to go, she enters the city with Bron and Nyasha, broken and searching for some thread of purpose. But is there anything for a crippled woman in a crippled city? Or shall she, too, go the way of magic?

When Bron, bodyguard to the Select, is jolted awake by an explosion, he quickly discovers that the entire city of Jalseion is in flames. Everywhere, people are dead, buildings collapsed, whole neighborhoods demolished. The scientific center of the world…burning to the ground. And the Select, those...

Kinship care – the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends – is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers. This book takes an in-depth look at what goes on 'inside' kinship care....