Terry Hayman: 74 books

The story of the sword of Damocles, a sword hung by a thread over the neck of a boastful courtier, is all about the sword and how it represents the precarious nature of life and power. But the real story was never about the sword at all, but about the people who hung it there and the people who suffered and why. Because it was never Damocles's sword to begin with.

When his wife of twenty years dies in his arms of cancer, celebrated New York painter Emery Lake withdraws from painting and from life. To save him, his grown daughter arranges a house exchange for both of them in the south of France. But the sun-drenched landscapes are only the beginning. For in...

For the duration of his mission, this time traveler will think of himself only as Rolf Graber, a secret replacement for the Nazi athlete who was Hitler’s best chance to defeat Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympic Games. But the new Rolf Graber is not going to disappoint Hitler. Graber is determined to beat Jesse, for only then can he kill Hitler.

Frank Olin’s got a very tiny secret weapon in his war on mediocrity, but no matter how much he tells people about it, no one believes him. And perhaps that’s just as well...

The town they walked into, the man and the girl under his protection, wasn’t friendly. No town was since Doomsday. But it had something going for it, some secret good stuff going on, and maybe even a plan to share. The only trick was figuring out what that “sharing” was going to cost.

One civilization faces being wiped out by magical invaders from across the sea. Another struggles to answer the question of why magic vanished from most of the world ages ago. Between them is a trio of new magic wielders struggling to learn their craft before they're found and silenced for good!

From an almost-innocent dealing with a serial killer to a couple ambitious actors who’ll do almost anything to get ahead in their careers, here are five stories of ordinary people who walk over a fine line and find themselves in criminal territory, either as victims or perpetrators – they’ve...

Rinsa wants to raise little Sergei the way the doctors tell her to. Really. Sergei has the Minder implant. Rinsa's got the controller. Only...it's hard when Sergei screams out in pain like that. There's got to be a better way.

Cal knows that his wife’s job as a Senior VP in the high-tech euthanasia powerhouse, Choyces, which has taken the world by storm, is simply wrong. His religious upbringing tells him so, as does his cell of the League of Light. If Cheryl can’t see the truth, then Cal is going to have to leave her...

There’s nothing quite like a short-short. Stories under 1000 words, sometimes under 500 words, demand a quick one-two punch of set up and payoff. And when done right, they deliver the quick-hit pleasure of a box of chocolates. From building-jumping office workers to time-traveling lovers,...

Art agent Madeline is stalking a brilliant Parisian painter with an impossible story attached to his name. But when she finds him, the truth is even more heart-rending than the myth.

The Demon Skyxx and the Angel Oe are having a friendly game of poker. The cards are the moves of their respective biochemists in a secret lab in the Middle East. The bids start with these two human lives and quickly escalate.

When Will Manderly’s son, dying of AIDS, tells his father that his dying wish is to know for sure whether there is a God and what that God thinks about him, Will answers in the only way he know how – by creating an intelligent GodBot on the undernet that will begins with a foundational knowledge...

A young woman wakes up to find herself in a basement, strapped to a cot by her professor. Has he saved her from the end of the world like he says? Or is it just the end of her world? Since her parents died, college student Jasmine has struggled and fallen into a relationship with an abusive...