Shiver
An Unsettling Short Story 
The dark sea lifted him up once more. This time the moonlight broke from the strangling cloud cover and revealed the undulating waters before him. Adrift, his legs moving with just enough energy to keep him afloat, he thought he was living a plane crash survivor’s worst nightmare. That was when he saw them, dotting the crests and valleys of the black water, their pale, corpse-like hide dully reflecting the light from above…a shiver of sharks.
So begins the short story “Shiver”–the story of Carson Noble, a real “A” personality, a real mover-and-shaker…a real jerk. He’s won at everything his whole life, whether by strength at arms or nimbleness of mind, and he believes he deserves whatever he wants thanks to his track record.
When he finds himself struggling against the uncaring violence of a storm-tossed ocean, however, he discovers that this challenge is not so easily overcome; and while the impersonal waves might become predictable, there is something in the night water that beggars belief…and makes Carson’s experience very personal indeed.
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Tubifex
A Disturbing Novelette
Jack’s just trying to make it through another day when a mysterious email from an old friend sets him investigating a YouTube video of a strange, unknown life form. The “thing in the sewer” becomes an obsession that haunts his dreams and draws him into a dark place; when his old pal disappears Jack goes looking, convinced the answers lie down a path far from his normal life.
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A. I. Trigger
An Artificially Intelligent Short Story
Albert and Giada are two scientists in love, and they want to share that love with their robot, ADAM. Love, however, can’t be programmed, and so they search for the elusive Artificial Intelligence Trigger that will spark real emotion in their creation.
This robot love story was written as part of a contest. I’ll let the contest’s own words explain: “One winner’s original story will be published in the Simon & Schuster paperback edition of the novel “The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown,” by Paul Malmont. (snip) Finish the story begun by one of the characters in the new novel. Start your version with “The robot felt…” Finish with “In the end, the robot felt nothing. He wasn’t programmed to.” The up-to-2000 words in between are all yours.”
And I made it mine! I had a lot of fun with this story, and would love for you to read it…so it is, and shall ever be, free!
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Coffeyville
A Harry Houdini Short Novel
Coffeyville, Kansas, is known as the “Town that stopped the Dalton Gang.” Many shots were fired in the early days of Coffeyville…but there was one lone bullet, fired some years after the Daltons were laid low, that passed unnoticed by most. One man, however, would never forget; a young Harry Houdini, still some years before fame would find him. The events of Coffeyville would ricochet down through the years, giving Houdini the ammunition he would need to pull off the greatest illusion of his epic career. Can you keep up with Houdini’s misdirection?
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