Michael D : 1112 books

It's Temperance Hall's big day - her chance to exact revenge and ruin some lives. Just the kind of thing she relishes. But when all the skeletons in her closet converge in a tragic car wreck, only her mind-reading chauffeur understands the full significance of this life-changing event. This slipstream short story may leave you with second thoughts about . . . your thoughts.

A collection of six stories that bend the rules of time - from straight-ahead time travel, to moving through the ages via more mystical means... Includes the Writers of the Future Honorable Mention-earning novellas Seer and Superthread; plus the short stories Predict THIS, Tag-Alongs, Broker,...

A soldier aboard a generational cruiser orbiting Mars is the only one who can save a small colony on the surface. That's because he's the only one left alive on the ship as it hurtles toward the Martian terrain. Trouble is, the door he needs to get through requires two arms to open - and he only has...

Joshua Gray, an explorer forced to become a soldier, may be the only person who can save the human race from utter destruction at the hands of an intractable alien enemy that claims a right of return to Earth. Gray forms a friendship with a leader of the long-dispersed q-Chek - a bond forged through...

Tragedy strikes top-rated TV show "Symphonic Idol" when one of the musical judges is found dead onstage, and everyone's a suspect in this classical twist on the detective story...

What happens if you die in your dreams? You wake up...hopefully. But how many times can you keep doing that before it destroys you? For Earth Armed Forces Specialist Adams, waking up from the battle is a crucial part of the job - it means he'll live to fight another day. But when it's up to him to...

It seemed like a casual evening of drinks with my best friend . . . until things turned ugly. Find out how in this flash fiction with a twist. [NOTE: THIS IS A SHORT STORY]

A woman with no eyes meets a man with no body. Love and treachery ensue in this short tale of blind love and body bags.

SpaceForce Corporal Nigel Halsted thinks he's in deep when he gets recruited by a shadowy organization to help derail a treaty between two interstellar species. But when the mission turns sour, he quickly learns that "deep" is all a matter of perspective...

Gary has one chance - and one chance only - to ensure first contact with the humans goes as smoothly as ancient history records it to have occurred. Unfortunately, the fate of the future galactic alliance all rests on his very questionable ability to . . . boogie down.

Jean Mitchell, deep cover agent for the Association, just got her cover blown. Now there's only one option: become someone else entirely by trading bodies with another agent. But the real trouble starts when she starts to fall for that other agent's fiancee...

Caught in a sticky situation, an oft-misused starship underling concocts a way to make everyone pay - but him.

I'm not who I thought I was. Neither is my wife. Now I must convince her of who she really is . . . or kill her. They tell me the future of the world depends on it. And I am running out of time . . . Superthread is a novella about a war waged through time, deceit with a higher purpose, and the power of love. Could you pull the trigger?

It was the vacation of a lifetime - the chance to experience a day in the life of a famous person from history - as a "hitchhiker" inside their mind. What could possibly go wrong?