FREE Audio Short Story: Piper's Run

Jules Piper was the Engineer on a small deep-space freighter. She thought she was having a bad day when she discovered the water reclamation system had failed. 

With no way to collect ice and more than three weeks to their destination, her Captain decided to make a stop.

It was the right planet. It was also the wrong time...

--Listen FREE on Soundcloud. Narrated by Aven Shore.

NEW Short Story: Piper's Run

Now Available on Audible!

A new Solstice 31 Short Story.

Available on Kindle for $.99 and Audible for $2.77.

--The story is 41 minutes long and Narrated By A.T. Shore.

NEW: A Solstice 31 Short Story - Brauen's Mine

Short Film Friday: Smash and Grab

--Great Scifi Short from Pixar!

LOOM

DUST: RAE

Shorts Collection

Coming in 2016

This week I was working on my short story collection for the Solstice 31 Saga that I will be publishing this summer or fall.

I have the first five shorts done and available for free via the links to the right.

All these stories give a little more dimension to the complex universe I have created.

Anyway, I was formatting the book using a few of the more advanced features like hot-linked-table-of-contents. I was also selecting the cover art and formatting the books interior.

In a classic jug head move, I accidentally published the thing. It speaks to how easy the publishing interface works if you just click the wrong link it happens!

For about an hour you could have purchased it on Amazon. I have since stopped it but an important lesson was learned.

Do not rush. This is not an emergency. 

I love the fact that in Indie publishing I am the one that is in control. I just have to always remember that I am the one that is driving this bus! 

The Short Story Collection is coming along.

Short Number 5 has been released: Oklahoma Salvage

All of these are currently available for FREE. But get them while you can, because when they are all published they will be released in a single volume!

I currently have outlines for fifteen short stories all together. We shall see!

My cat Bailey thinks I use too many exclamation points.

He may be right.

I'm a very excitable man...

Solstice 31 Short Story: Oklahoma Salvage

When a stranger comes to Oklahoma Salvage looking for a shuttle to buy off the books, Harv and Alex Reardon must discover the truth before time runs out.

Something strange is happening in the Oklahoma desert.

Harv Reardon is the owner of Oklahoma Salvage, an enormous graveyard for trucks, cars, planes, shuttles and space ships in various states of decay. With the help his great grand daughter Alex they help a mysterious stranger rehab a ship for space flight.

Something just doesn't feel right to Harv and Alex.



--This is the 5th Solstice 31 Saga Short Story.

Short SciFi Marketplace

--The biggest thing is they are slow.

Injuring Eternity

 The year is 2631 and a weapons designer with the help of a prisoner, invents what should never exist.

McDonald is a Senior Research and Development Engineer, Material Sciences and Artificial Gravity Specialist. His latest project will be a force that will change history, and he doesn't even know it. His ignorance will allow them to begin Injuring Eternity.

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--A Solstice 31 Saga Short Story.

Short Stories Preview

I have outlines ready for a series of short stories related to the Solstice 31 Saga. The first three are already available for free via the links on the right.

Many of them are writings that were saved from the cutting room floor. All these will be released individually over the coming year. In the end, I will assemble them all into a single volume.

--I still need to create the cover for the final edition.

The Black Pod

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Time for another FREE short story!

The Black Pod was designed to survive anything, even a direct strike from a nuclear bomb. It had to survive. It held the story of the demise of the Ventura. That was the Black Pod’s purpose. The hull was Polycarbon, and made of an indestructible fiber more than a meter thick. The internal power system was comprised of dual dark matter reactors, and would last 200 years without additional fuel. The internal inertial dampeners were so powerful, Chief Adams never felt the initial blast. There was no sense of the three axis spin that the Black Pod was in, as its orbit decayed.

--This is a Solstice 31 Saga short story.

Kill Valerie Hume

This is a Solstice 31 Saga short story.

Kill Valerie Hume is now available for FREE!

Lieutenant Valerie Hume is a Senior Security Officer on the deep space survey ship the Ventura.

On the day before the Ventura Incident, someone wants LT Hume dead. Using her skills and a dose of luck will she live long enough to get to the Memphis and her first post as part of a command crew.

Valerie Hume never thought that someone trying to murder her was not going to be the worse part of her day...

--Let me know what you think!

The Outer Ring - Audio Short

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The Outer Ring is a Solstice 31 Saga short story and is available for free download in various formats:

• Amazon Kindle edition
• Smashwords
• Audio MP3 (NEW 33 mins)

The Outer Ring is written by Martin Wilsey and read by Michell Rudacille.

Michell Rudacille is an actress in Los Angeles that does VoiceOvers, including narration, commercials and characters.

--Please contact me for additional information 

The Outer Ring

 Once I worked it out and The Outer Ring was up on Amazon for free it took no time at all to get into the Top 10 list on Amazons Short Science Fiction category.

It's still free and always will be.

I a couple week the next short story will be up:

   Kill Valerie Hume

It is just a little more to whet your whistle until Book 2: The Broken Cage is released on September 1st!