Always a Question of the Rats

Always a Question of the Rats was the winner of our first Bi-Annual short story competition. For this competition, the theme was ‘Autumn’.

The Fylde Witch

‘There is a witch in Woodplumpton. She is buried, upside down, beneath a boulder…’

When you think of the Fylde, if you think of it at all, you might picture its coastline: Illuminations, picturesque windmills, and historic lighthouses.

This story is much older than any of those things. This story takes place in the Fylde of 400 years ago, where boggarts dwelt in farmsteads, Jack o’ the Lantern roamed the wild woods, and three wise women…

Lethal Revenge

A gripping intriguing murder mystery – Revealing the dark thoughts of a demented killer as he terrorises a quiet rural area with his evil intent. Who will be next? Will he succeed in destroying Paul and Josie’s romance and a bizarre legacy? Suspects secret lives are unveiled during the police investigation, further complicating the murder cases. When the killer is finally apprehended, shockwaves ripple through the jittery communities. This is a captivating novel bringing…

Bio-Ethical What?

(SHORT STORY) Dexter Scott wakes up to a living nightmare. He’s been made into a real-life Frankenstein and comes to accept it, begrudgingly. But something doesn’t seem right with the hospital staff and his surroundings. What really happened to him before he wound up in the recovery room with new body parts?

The Burnt Watcher

The Excise exists to keep the world safe.
This is done in two ways.

First is the Judiciary.
It understands local law and applies it evenly.

The second is the Watcher.
It understands Fear and fights it mercilessly.

Five hundred years ago the old world burned and the Fear rose from the ashes and the Glass. Watchers knew the Fear and found the ways of fighting it, enabling the world to be built anew.

Now the Fear is a memory, a…

The Dandelion Farmer

Steampunk meets Science Fiction adventure on the Wild Western Frontier of Mars. The Dandelion Farmer is a Victorian style Science Fiction novel set in the Martian colonies twenty-five years after independence from the old Imperial powers. Edwin Ransom is a young, idealistic botanical fuel grower, who is barely scratching a living out of the red earth. Edwin’s quiet life is intruded upon by the henchmen of Eleuthère Du Maurier, a ruthless fuel industrialist who…

The Pale Queen

A story can be freedom. A story can be prison.

In service to the mysterious Pale Queen, a poet-warrior navigates a world of magic, carrying a weapon created to kill gods.

Seren searches for his lost lover, striving to find her before the coming of the Never-Was. He writes in a secret notebook about encounters with friend and foe, hoping to make sense of these entangling threads. With his lion companion at his side, Seren seeks…

Sojin (Voice that Thunder #3.5)

Some dreams dig deep into the soul and never let go. They call for vengeance!
Before the gods, before the war, there lived a freckled-face little mugger called Sojin. He dreamed of growing into manhood, finding a wife and settling down. But that was before…
On the run, hiding from gods, giants and chimeric beasts, Sojin meets a new foe. Lestas, a brigand who demands Sojin pay his dues and join his band of runners. As…

Tales of Elhaanai

A baby switched before birth. A false Queen desperate to rule. A lust for power that could destroy the entire kingdom.

Using dark magic in an attempt to take control of the throne, Devona, the kings sister is caught in her own snare when a spell results in more than she handle and her own son pays the price.
Growing up, Alric thought he was like everyone else, just a bit stronger. When he is caught…

Iron Blood & Sacrifice (The Sons of Beli Mawr)

Unashamedly weighty, this iron-age saga brings to life some of Wales’ oldest and most revered heroes, those of Mabinogion fame. Lludd Llaw Ereint, Nynniaw, Rianaw, Caswallawn Fawr and Llefelys all walk again in this ground-breaking and entertaining trilogy. Never before have the invasions of Julius Caesar been told in this modern and contemporary way and from the Brythons’ perspective. Iron Blood & Sacrifice is a bloody romp through the palisaded hillforts of an ancient…

Finch Henry’s Air Fish

Finch escapes his bleak island existence to discover that the mainland philosophy has been shaped by an astonishing metaphysical discovery.

While futuristic and entertaining, the book questions the nature of existence, reality, and the value of life. If you’re fascinated by the wonder of consciousness and beyond, you’ll love ‘Finch Henry’s Air Fish’, a book written for those with an interest in the deeper meaning of life and who love to devour a page-turner.

‘One of…

The Cassidy Chronicles Volume One

Welcome to the world of 2113. The country has shattered into ten squabbling nations and the solar system is on the edge of colonization. Technologic wonders abound. Yet, it’s not unlike our own. People meet, fall in love, face assassination at their wedding – well, perhaps not.
Meet Aiyana and Kendra, Cass and Ken to their friends, a genius physicist and a retired movie star with a mysterious past. They live quietly, get along with…

A GAME OF GODS

What if…
What if a world existed where ancient civilizations still thrived?
What if prehistoric creatures roamed the land freely side by side with warriors from an age long past?
What if a world existed where people with unusual gifts lived in harmony and acceptance?
What if aliens who wielded vast power were trying to save humanity?
What if ancient advanced beings were responsible for the beginning of life on Earth?
What kind of world would that be?

A GAME OF…

The Timekeeper’s Conspiracy

Simon’s workaholic father left when he was a young boy. He had never given his father much thought at all, until a mysterious package arrived after his 21st birthday. A dangerous ripple effect begins the moment the package is opened.

Simon and his best friend Luke are drawn into a complex war with Dr. Tate Pedersen and his vast team, who have vowed to create a pandemic by releasing a deadly virus upon the world….

The Ouiums Journey: Hell Broke Loose

When Esa Blyth escaped from the pits of hell, he thought his troubles were over. Soon after his return, however, he discovered his magic and the world he’d left behind had changed.

Without his innate gift and support from covens, the ancient and powerful witch had no choice but to forge ahead.

His meeting with Skylar Lee, a dark witch with an incredible power that promises much, is a turning point for Esa. There is an…

The God Hunters

Nicholas Benson is a university professor and plain, ordinary guy just out for a good time. The alien Katel is a hunter, a Tik, whose abilities allow her to travel through the multiverse. She’s hunting an escaped criminal who used to be a leading member of the ruling council on HomeWorld.

The trouble is, she needs a body, and Nick has the only one available. It’s a weak, human body, however, so she changes it;…

Shane Sheba and Sky

We all go through times when we feel lost, alone and discouraged. The events of daily life can sometimes appear to have led us to a place where true happiness is hard to find. But fate can also be kind. Sensing an on coming mid-life crisis, Paul Viner almost unwittingly stumbles into rescuing three brutalised, and yet remarkable dogs that would join him on a journey of self-discovery. This true-life story is an account…

Silver Lining

Everyone hides behind a facade…

Rilon Arlett, the heir to the Presidency, continually hides behind a facade of lies. He hides secrets too big to be exposed to the world. With the death of his father due to his mistakes, his secret is thrust into the spotlight, and with his brother continually questioning him at every move, he may have to hide something bigger than himself. It may be a secret that warrants him undesired…

Black Widow: Blood Ties

Raised in a city where drug dealers walk the streets and murder awaits you around every corner, becoming a cop seemed like the perfect choice for Andrew Jamison. As a cop, he could clean up the streets and keep his younger brother safe.

It didn’t take long for Andrew to learn that criminals have more rights than the victims. That a simple mistake or lack of evidence can allow the guilty to walk free. So,…

Sandwich Aficionado

When Terry settled in for the night, little did he know that he would be held, at gunpoint, while an intruder shows him a secret to making life more amazing than was thought possible.

What Evil Lurks…A Collection Of Short Stories Depicting The Tainted Unhuman Condition

Sometimes, there is a glitch. A massive one, in the cerebrum. No one really knows why it happens, but it does. Every single day, all around the world. When a man ceases to be a man, and transforms into something…else. It can manifest itself in the form of a killer, a pervert, a predator, a sadist, a monster, or even a simple victim…a piece of meat. The possibilities are many. But the glitch itself…

Hollywood Rage

Prepare yourself for blood, gore and guts by the bucket load!

A Vile has-been movie star deservedly gets his comeuppance on the set of a Hollywood film.

However, things don’t always go to plan and in this case the consequences are deadly.

Hollywood Rage is a 14K word GRAPHIC short horror story brought to you by the same author that brought you the terrifying and successful Fragmented Evil (also available on Rogue Animal Books).

Predominantly a Classic Horror…

Annis

Book One of The Goddess of Sorrows
In the harsh Dark Age world of Anticthon, Annis, a reviled sorceress, is sent beyond the Collie Mhòr, the Great Forest, by King Cathail to aid the defenders of his most northerly bastion, the grim fortress of Creag an Eagail.
In this bleak and savage land, in the grip of winter, Annis and her companions aid the local Laird in his forlorn task of holding back armies of creatures…

Always a Question of the Rats

Always a Question of the Rats was the winner of our first Bi-Annual short story competition. For this competition, the theme was ‘Autumn’.

The Mortality of Queens

England 1792: every man and woman is bonded to an Umbra – a shadow self that inhabits the unknowable Other Realm. It’s a mortal bond, if either dies, they both do.
Arthur has summoned his Umbra, Amorrie, to attend a ball but she materialises naked, with a broken leg and covered in another’s blood. The ball is disrupted by news of the death of a Countess after her warrior Umbra was murdered in Amorrie’s world.
Among…

Micro-Stories

This book is a compilation of micro-stories that encompasses diverse literary genres. Some have been awarded and all of them have been published in digital magazines, contests, and anthologies of international character. I hope you enjoy this mix of literary brushstrokes.

The Fylde Witch

‘There is a witch in Woodplumpton. She is buried, upside down, beneath a boulder…’

When you think of the Fylde, if you think of it at all, you might picture its coastline: Illuminations, picturesque windmills, and historic lighthouses.

This story is much older than any of those things. This story takes place in the Fylde of 400 years ago, where boggarts dwelt in farmsteads, Jack o’ the Lantern roamed the wild woods, and three wise women…

The Fourth Tier

The Fourth Tier is the first book of the Underworld series, a spin off from author Penn Fawn’s Necropolis dark fantasy novels.

For the deceased, the underworld represents a terrifying awakening. It is where men who believe after they die they will sleep in eternal peace go, as opposed to being in a state where they are forever at rest.

The fourth tier is the deepest, darkest, most terrifying place in the afterlife where only the…

Perverse

19 year old Emylene Stipe is a 2^nd generation Goth who, like every teenage girl, is trying to find her place in the world. One night she comes upon an old painting in an antique store and is compelled to purchase it. When she brings it home, an image of a young woman appears in the sketch and then magically materializes in her apartment. Emylene nicknames her ‘Poinsettia” and they quickly become fast friends. But…