James Bailey: 25 books

A short story of the last train ride a Jewish person takes until their arrival at a death camp. Written from a first person perspective, this story tries to convey the despair one would feel as one's fate was realised.

Brent has been searching for evidence of the afterlife, ghosts, anything supernatural for years with no success. With his money beginning to run out and resignation setting in, Brent receives an email from an unknown sender suggesting he pay a visit to a simple house in a nearby city.

Lost, thirsty and sunburnt, Frank sees a petrol station in the distance, gleaming like an oasis. All Frank wishes to do is resupply and head back where he came from so he can find his brother and give him the proper death he deserves rather than leaving him a mindless creature roaming the countryside for new victims.

A man sits on a bench in front of his old school remembering the place where one particular day changed his life and those of many others dramatically years earlier.

Simon was a successful student with a promising career ahead of him. However, a new immersive video game has been released where he is able to create his own world and shape and destroy it however he wishes. Simon gradually grows addicted to this game until slowly but surely his addiction ruins his...

God has left our world, Lucifer has returned to take control. After centuries away Lucifer returns to a world that has changed dramatically from the one he knew. Lucifer struggles to understand modern society and is appalled at the atrocities mankind has managed to inflict upon itself since his feud...

In the near future death is little more than an inconvenience, a mind can simply be transferred into a new body upon death. Sam, a young boy, watches as his mother slowly passes away in front of him. He struggles to understand how her mind and consciousness will be transferred into a new body and that she will be the same mother he grew up with.

The town of Stolten is a quiet Dwarven town occasionally interrupted by the odd explosion from the nearby Gnomish village. Durban, the local Innkeeper, finds he must enlist the help of the local gnomes and their contraptions in order to save his town from an impending invasion. Unfortunately their solution could be more dangerous than the horde of creatures that are about to attack.

John is a prospector on the moon of Callisto. While on a surveying trip he finds a derelict ship at the bottom of a valley. Checking out the wreck he realises that this vessel has no business being anywhere near the moon. As he explores the interior the real reason for the crash becomes clear.

A young hacker has found some documents he shouldn't have, the world is going to end in a matter of a few years. Unfortunately the hacker dies in a car chase fleeing the police, but not before he passes on the information to his friend Michelle. Soon government agents are chasing the woman as she enlists the aid of a climatologist to try and figure out what to do with the information.

A major natural disaster with the potential to wipe out much of the human race is on the horizon. Four acquaintances work for an agency trying to prevent knowledge of the impending destruction from getting released to the general public and causing a global panic. Three are having doubts about the...

A new home has finally been found by one of the seven ships that abandoned Earth thirty years earlier. Seth is one of the first to set foot on the planet and explore what appears to be a paradise. Things are not all they seem however, and they might not be the first people to arrive on this world.

John has fought against the rising domination of the Covax Corporation for months. Their revolutionary new drug giving them a near unlimited bank account and growing stranglehold over the government. An opportunity has arisen that could give him the chance to strike a death blow to the company, but will old enemies stop him on his way?

David is bored with his life. After years of slaving away in a dead end job he has come to the realization that his thirty odd years have amounted to nothing. A violent encounter with some home intruders however, has shown David that there may be another way to make an impact on the world that can leave his name on the lips of people for a very long time.