Having survived the annihilation of the first universe, she seeks to live out her eternity in peace as mother goddess to mankind; but someone else has also survived, and he controls her dreams.
This story first appeared in the Untold Podcast .
Science Fiction (SciFi) Stories
A measure of the depth
Someone is hunting down thugs in the City of Living Dreams, where any pleasure or drug is available for a price. Though the planet is strictly off-limits to military personnel in training, Lieutenant Junior Grade Palladia Conté is discovered there, and immediately conscripted to help stop the killing spree.
A measure of the depth, first appeared 2008 in Residential Aliens where it’s available for reading.
Pluto’s Helmet
Leona is missing, presumed dead in the same freak accident that took her parents; and her trusted mentor is planning to sell her as a weapon.
If you read A measure of the depth and wondered what the future holds for Zeta Reti, this self-contained sequel continues her story, ten years later. It is set in the Soldiers of Mercy universe.
The Designer
There we were, contingent 47 of the Engineering Corps, ready to die for our planet, and he had to give in. They wouldn’t have even touched him. By his uniform they knew he wasn’t one of us. They didn’t know civilian support uniforms. If he hadn’t told them they would have never guessed he was a Designer.
The Designer first appeared in Ray Gun Revival, Issue 57, 2010, by Double-edged Publishing. It is a stand-alone story in the Space Opera subgenre.
Better not to have seen
On space parcel duty, Ensign Palladia Conté, tracks a misdirected package to a radioactive planet that is not where it’s supposed to be, and stumbles upon a forgotten Sirio-Terran mining colony caught in a conspiracy to steal classified Terran technology.
A self-contained prequel to A measure of the depth set 1.5 years earlier, this story gives you more background on Navy officer Palladia Conté of the Civilization Conference Space Force. It is intended as Chapter 1 of the serialized novel Soldiers of Mercy.
Supernatural Thriller Stories
Template of the Rephaim
1862: Dr. Bernice Vedeen has chartered transport across the Black Sea to carry medical supplies intended for Dr. Livingstone’s mission in Africa. She does not believe in the existence of vampires. But the discovery of the blood-drained corpse of a Russian aristocrat on board is about to bring her face to face with an even deadlier terror.
Template of the Rephaim first appears in the Crossover Alliance’s Second Anthology. It is also intended as Chapter 1 of the novel, Hallowstone: Return of the Mocker.
From the Blog
Mara of the House of Echoes
There is a taste of rebellion to it: to wonder about your own name. After all, you don’t choose your name, your parents do. And the Heavenly Father guides them to that choice. It has always been so.
Would our fathers have fought as valiantly to win the Promised Land if they had not had a constant reminder that it is the Lord that saves? That was the name of the great general, Joshua. Would David the shepherd have risen against the giant, would David the King have withstood persecution from enemies from without and within, if he had ever doubted that he was beloved of the Lord?
The Name ordains every name; it tells the story of your life. Hasn’t it always been so?
Then why am I “bitter”?
Life: An axiom of the universe (part 3)
Because the laws of mathematical probability and Information Theory force us to acknowledge that Life and its information content could not have evolved from “simpler” non-living processes, the least we can do is accept that they are axioms of the universe. H. P. Yockey’s conclusion is that all the information required to build the most complex organism on Earth was already built into DNA from the very beginning of Life. This is a proof from impossibility. That’s fine; but it would be nice to find other evidence of this pre-existing code.Read More about Life: An axiom of the universe (part 3)
