Short Fiction

It’s Christmas Eve, but Samuel Branch isn’t feeling the holiday spirit. So, naturally, that’s when a portly man in a red suit shows up. It seems Christmas is in peril and only Sam Branch can help.

After saving a group of college kids from an evil coven leader, Samuel Branch offered them the chance to learn from him. Now he faces what may be his most daunting challenge yet…A sit down with one of these lost sheep’s mother.

Carmichael Smythe leads the public life of a corporate executive and, on normal days, secretly lends resources to those battling the dark forces most people never see. This is not a normal day. Blackmailed by a shadowy agent, he has one day to turn over a dangerous, revolutionary technology. Refusal means the death of his sister and best friend. If he agrees, it could destroy the balance of power across the globe.

Alabaster wakes up injured and under the care of Onyx, a blind weaver woman. As he recovers and learns more about his unlikely savior, Alabaster finds himself on a path of vengeance and a collision course with a god.

Temoran wakes up groggy and alone. With dawning horror, he realizes that his former friends and business partners have abandoned him to die in the Great Alkeon Forest. With no supplies and not a lick of magic to protect himself, Temoran must rely on half-remembered skills his father imparted just to get through the day. As night falls, though, he must depend on a stranger to help him survive the night of the Rithin.