Michael D : 1112 books

An anthology of four flash fiction stories. One of fear, one of sentience, one of love, and one of death. (Includes bonus: first chapter of the science fiction novel RUFUS QUINCE: BOUNTY HUNTER - Dreams of a Fool.)

My mind is not like Satoshi's — it's ordered, with perfect recall. That's why he loves me, I think. But they want to take me away from him — all because he lost his temper ONE time. It doesn't seem fair. They keep talking about Statute Forty-Nine. And saying that now — I am different... [NOTE: THIS IS A SHORT STORY]

The Lunar Tales anthology is a collection of five speculative short stories set on Earth's Moon. Discover what happens when you die in a dream. Examine the mystery of a murderous thief at a well-established lunar colony. Explore one man's conflict as he struggles to save his moon base from annihilation....

Scott Faraday and Cat Blaine are back with a case that takes them on a wild and deadly ride. When random shooters are tied to viral emails and mysterious cell phone calls, the two detectives are drawn into a web of terror -- and the trail could lead Cat to answers in the cold-case murders of her brother...

For two thousand years, his name has been known throughout the world - though very little is known about his life. His crucial role: husband of Mary, and the most important step-father of all time. What was it like to help deliver the baby Jesus, to raise the Savior, to witness His suffering in Gethsemane...

Tasked with protecting Earth and the Solar System, members of The Program live a strict code during their ten year tour of duty, including no relationships - especially not with other agents. But as Ben Vincent falls into an intricate web of twisted reality, he must struggle to sort out truth from...

Your computer starts working fine again as soon as you call IT for help...Coincidence? Murphy's Law? Destiny? Deja vu? What are these strange forces that weave their way throughout our lives? Dr. Mark Walters believes he has the key — and his world is turned upside-down when those forces begin to...

Ammon Waters is on the verge of a stunning breakthrough - the ability to travel through time. He's also on the verge of a breakdown - unable to distinguish reality from a pharmacological illusion. DECEIVE THE PARADOX explores one man's descent into the abyss of insanity as he uses the desperation caused by tragic loss to advance his science.

The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English...

How could authors not write about the effects of a civil war that tore their nation in two, that divided and destroyed families and friends? They had to tell the story, though they were carefully scrutinized and censored. How could they resist artistically and present alternate voices and visions...

For centuries, Jews have been known as the "people of the book." It is commonly thought that Judaism in the first several centuries CE found meaning exclusively in textual sources. But there is another approach to meaning to be found in ancient Judaism, one that sees it in the natural world...

Young Gerald Mauldin, new deacon of the Episcopal Church in the small Virginia town of Pinkstonville, steps off the train in the fall of 1931 and walks into a perfect storm of high hopes and shattered dreams. The Stumbling Trail follows the young Deacon Gerald as he works to establish a good reputation...

The Drifter is a gripping, fast-paced tale of suspense. The Drifter, hardened from his days of military service during the Vietnam War, as well as a career as a government operative, is finally ready to retire and take things easy. But as he starts his new life, he bumps into a twenty-first-century...

When the solar system adopts the buggy SolGrid telepathic network designed by former United System Space Force officer Patrick James, Jack Commer's charismatic but troubled son Jonathan James instigates a rebellion against what he considers brainwashing. His followers includes his lover Suzette Borman,...