Seven Words alter physics. Once they sourced Greek myths, now these Words are used by Atlantean mages in an interstellar struggle against evil.A fisherman, Praxis, must take first-test in pankration, an ancient MMA-style contest, to become Zeus 25, last dynastic ruler of Atlantis. His path to Olympian glory is interrupted by an interstellar journey which exposes him to a deadly threat to all mages of AvoDar - science.…
Seven Words alter physics. Once they sourced Greek myths, now these Words are used by Atlantean mages in an interstellar struggle against evil.A village girl, Zenobia, declared 'extra' by her father, is sent to Athena's Guild where a master, Eudora, takes an interest in her. Trained by her mother, Za, Zennobia is secretly a master in archery and destined to challenge Zeus 25 who's augmented by The Words and extraterrestrial science.…
Sci-fi tales, or twisted tails, or shirttails in a twist. Something different every time.…
Varied stories in varied genres.…
Randy Justice puts his life on the line when he touches the smoldering clues from a corporate fire.Randy, an insurance investigator, has set up shop as Justice Investigations in the Portland, Oregon, theater he inherited from his folks. As a single parent, he must balance raising teenagers, Sally and Billy, while unraveling the truth about a deadly fire at Genetrix, a startup company in California's Silicon Valley.The principal scientist at Genetrix dies in a fire that consumes most of the company headquarters. Western Insurance must pay millions if the fire proves an accident. A beautiful venture capitalist and the striking daughter of a competitor help Randy untangle the lies and motives that created the Fire Trap in which the scientist died.…
Sally Justice is a magnet for trouble-not trouble that gets you detention, but trouble that gets you killed. With friends Melody and Jenna, she learns Jenna's boyfriend, Wes, was murdered outside Coast Watch, a group protecting seabirds and their old-growth habitat along the Oregon coast.Police detective Ferretti question Jenna. Sally knows him through her father, Randy, an insurance investigator. Dad runs Justice Investigations out of offices below their flat in the Vic, the sprawling theater complex Randy inherited and manages. Sam seems to dismisses Wes's shooting as random violence against Coast Watch, but later, a clue leads Sally to loggers in Waldport.…
Grounded for the summer for messing in her father's cases, Sally Justice must work in the family theater where the star of her father's production of "Fiddler on the Roof" goes missing. She literally takes a lead role in solving the case while putting herself in the path of a murderous psycho. Sally's father, an insurance investigator, has set up shop as Justice Investigations in the Vic, the Portland, Oregon, theater he inherited from his folks. As a single parent, he provides for Sally and her brother, Billy, while she presents more problems needing solutions than do his cases for Western Insurance. Punished in Portland is an ongoing YA mystery/thriller in my Justice Family Mysteries series. It's sequel, Naked in New York, is another YA mystery/thriller featuring Sally which will be released in the Fall. Currently, Sally, has three Young Adult books in the Justice Family Mysteries series. The first, Wasted in Waldport, is complete on Wattpad.…
Randy Justice, insurance investigator, is assigned to an L.A. film crew shooting an action movie in Oregon. Mad Drone Productions has a previous claims history, and Randy's job to prevent such claims seems doomed by a serious injury and death on the first day of filming.…
In Wasted in Waldport and Punished in Portland, Sally Justice, Lincoln High Junior, is a magnet for trouble-not trouble that gets you detention, but trouble that gets you killed. Sally's confinement to her grandparent's theater building, the Vic, living with her father, Randy, and her younger brother, Billy, didn't stop her getting in trouble sleuthing-the same offense that got her punished in the first place. Now, she's leaving with Billy to visit their mother in New York. Randy and his partner, Arnie, can't keep her out of trouble in New York. Will their estranged mother, Rachel, have any more luck reining Sally in?…
Self-help book to improve story grammar and gain readers.…
In these Mystery and Romance short stories , unusual events disturb the status quo and launch a quest for answers. Love will be tested, or found, and a mystery solved.All of the cover and page art is by Rick Marcks. See his work at Http://RickMarcksMedia.comIn "Shy", Jim, a quiet guy in a minimum wage job at a mortuary gets a second chance to express himself.…
In these Mystery and Romance short stories , unusual events disturb the status quo and launch a quest for answers. Love will be tested, or found, and a mystery solved.All of the cover and page art is by Rick Marcks. See his work at Http://RickMarcksMedia.comIn "The Exchange Student", Johann moves in with the Fredricks? Will he teach their daughter, Susan, German or will he get a lesson in English from Susan's strict mother.All Rights Reserved…
A story where unusual events disturb the status quo and launch a quest for answers. Love will be tested, or found, and a mystery solved. Violet is spending too much time with her husband's attractive pilot, Jason.…
Joe, an unfairly court-martialed Marine, lashes out in a personal odyssey of revenge until arms suppliers trap him in their criminal army. Joe reaches past his private rage rekindling his patriotism and foils the profiteer's plot to terrorize U.S. air bases.…
Eric Rock learns from his grandmother that seven words made the universe, and one erases gravity around you, but speaking the syllables alerts monks, who've guarded the Words for ages. Sensitized bells let the monks track every speaker who they've vowed to kill.…
In East meets West, one of the Seven Words that created the universe has been spoken by Eric Rock, and monks, fearing its misuse, hunt Eric to kill him. The Words can destroy everything. Each Word lets its Speaker rewrite a physical law in an area near them - for four hours. During that time, guardian monks from China can locate the Speaker, who's ignorance might unmake the earth.…
In Close Encounters, seven Words created the universe, but misused The Words can destroy everything. Each Word lets its Speaker rewrite a physical law in the area near them - for four hours. During that time, guardian monks from China quest to locate and kill the Speaker whose ignorance might unmake the earth. Eric must escape the assassin hunting him, recover his car, and help Mary and Walt.Previously, Eric Rock, a bookstore clerk in Portland, Oregon, learned the power word AmJukJa from his grandmother and it erased gravity around him. While weightless, he tried to help Gran by 'borrowing' Logan Castro's drug money to save her house. Instead, Logan thinks he's been robbed by his partner, Garth, the bookstore owner.Walt Herrera, Eric's buddy, helps launder Logan's money. At Gran's urging, Eric goes to San Francisco to lead the monks away from Portland. Eric buys a car in San Francisco to do his part converting the 'borrowed' money, but the car is towed. Eric finds an unexpected new friend in waitress Mary Jepson. Unfortunately, Jian Zhou, an assassin monk, finds him.…
In Friends in Need, seven Words created the universe, but misused The Words can destroy everything. Each Word lets its Speaker rewrite a physical law in the area near them - for four hours. During that time, guardian monks from China quest to locate and kill the Speaker whose ignorance might unmake the earth. Eric's attractive boss in Portland, Violet Waxman, must help her father sell the bookstore to pay back crime czar, Logan Castro. Worse yet, Eric's buddy, Walt, has been taken hostage by Logan's men.Previously, Eric Rock, a bookstore clerk in Portland, Oregon, learned the power word AmJukJa from his grandmother and it erased gravity around him, but, in San Francisco, he barely escapes an assassin monk while a friendly one teaches him a second power word, KadavRa, erasing weightlessness and then doubling his density with each repetition until bullets cannot hurt him.…
In The Philosophy of Trust, seven Words created the universe, but misused The Words can destroy everything. Each Word lets its Speaker rewrite a physical law in the area near them - for four hours. During that time, guardian monks from China quest to locate and kill the Speaker whose ignorance might unmake the earth. Violet reluctantly agreed to help Eric save Walt, but Logan Castro captures them, takes his money back, and orders them killed,.Previously, Eric Rock, a bookstore clerk in Portland, Oregon, learned the power word AmJukJa from his grandmother and it erased gravity around him, but, in San Francisco, he barely escapes an assassin monk while a friendly one teaches him a second power word, KadavRa, erasing weightlessness and then doubling his density with each repetition until bullets cannot hurt him.…
In Trapped, seven Words created the universe, but misused The Words can destroy everything. Each Word lets its Speaker rewrite a physical law in the area near them - for four hours. During that time, guardian monks from China quest to locate and kill the Speaker whose ignorance might unmake the earth. Logan and Endgame trap Eric and Violet at Gran's house.Previously, Eric Rock, a bookstore clerk in Portland, Oregon, learned the power word AmJukJa from his grandmother and it erased gravity around him, but, in San Francisco, he barely escapes an assassin monk while a friendly one teaches him a second power word, KadavRa, erasing weightlessness and then doubling his density with each repetition until bullets cannot hurt him, but now two groups, who know more of The Words than he does, hunt him and his friends.…