Ben: 383 books

From dark futures filled with hope to a boy and his rat facing dark creatures in the night, Future Horizons is about the human heart as much as it is the potential places it might take us. A short collection of five stories and around 15,000 words.

Comic book length chapters. Blockbuster movie style action. Most fifteen year olds don't get thrown in the desert with no food and water. Most fifteen year olds aren't experiments by evil scientists who don't care whether they live or die. Most fifteen year olds don't have superpowers. But...

Despised by his warrior father, Ulf is sent into the woods as a scout for his clan's upcoming battle. He comes back, but not alone. Now Ulf must face the enemies on the battlefield and the enemy within or lose himself to The Wild. A fantasy story of 8,800 words.

Jones is a finder. People, info, things—as long as it's in Tampa he can track it down. But when Sarita Prieto, "The Dark Princess" of Tampa, asks him to find someone, he'll realize some things are better off lost. A short mystery story of 3,500 words

Cecily's life at the abbey is a mixture of chores and beatings. Her only joy: climbing the walls to visit her stone angels. But things change when a stranger comes to the abbey under the cover of night, bringing a secret...and danger. A short story around 14,000 words.

Matt is consumed by vivid dreams about an alien race after returning from a camping trip with his friends in the Mojave Desert. As he starts to unravel the meaning of his dreams, he discovers they are connected to secret intra-dimensional experiments being conducted by the military. Love and betrayal...

When Wayfinder Nali is dispatched to the isolated village of Veel’na in the rainforest lowlands of the planet Llathe, she soon discovers that her task is larger than she thought. A dark terror is killing the people of Veel’na one-by-one during the Long Night, and there is no help coming until...

Boots McHenry and his boyfriend Ryan are young superstars in the North American Paintball League, a high-stakes sport where losers face exile -- five full years of it, on an island so secret no one can be sure it even exists. After Ryan has a tragic collision with an opposing team's paintball, the...

At the heart of these twelve interconnected stories is Ollie Wade, a gay guy navigating life and love from age 13 to 28. At a middle-school dance, a boy keeps a secret from his date; on a subway platform, he realizes a young green-eyed stranger has the same secret. Through a computer screen,...

Five years after the miraculous events of "The Painting of Porcupine City," Vinicius Bittencourt is stuck. Stuck in the shadow of his missing cousin Mateo. Stuck in a mystery that might never be solved. Stuck in a present that can't compete with his past. Each year he gives himself a new...

Dragons have lived in secrecy for over a thousand years, patiently waiting for the return of a Dragon Wizard. It was prophesized that he could lead them out of the darkness and into the new age. Splinter believes she has found the one with power, but as he ignores his destiny, the prophecy that foretold of a new age of dragons is in jeopardy of going unfulfilled... Ages 7+

Adam had a crush on Heather since the day they met. She was as perfect and as sweet as any girl could be. But their world was turned upside down when Adam innocently wrote a Pagan ritual into their drama club's play and they swapped bodies while rehearsing it! Not knowing whether or...

After finally marrying my college crush, Lily, I thought that showing off my beautiful wife at the upcoming college reunion would be the best way to get back at the bullies who made fun of me. But when we finally arrived there, I came to know that Eric, my college bully, was Lily's ex-lover. She...

My wife Tara and I finally got the permission to board the spaceship that'd take us to Mars. We were amongst those who had been selected to populate the planet once we got there. I hadn't told Tara that I had lied about my impotency to get us a pass. But after my infertility problem came out...