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" Pirate Captain Mintea crash lands on planet in the middle of a deadly antimatter ion storm, and finds herself on ocean world pursued by the only other survivor, Maximus, her evil helmsman who is intent on revenge for taking them into the storm in the first place. Along the way she finds Gulliver type islands, of tiny people and giants, as well as a vortex where reality is skewed by the writers that live there. After escaping the vortex Mintea sails toward a distant port where she hopes to find a passage home by way of subspace. By the time Mintea finds her way to that port, Maximus has taken control of the Behemoth, a huge gun-ship that he hopes to use to destroy Mintea and the port where she is hiding. "

On a distant planet a time machine is waking from several millennia of slumber while Jefferson Hayes seeks it's secrets. In the mean time Cal Wheams is taking time away from his writing to pursue one of his other hobbies, that of a toy maker. With the awakening of the machine a mysterious visitor will visit Cal and ask him to make a toy that will lead Cal into his own past, as well as pit him against one of the vilest villains in the galaxy. Now Cal must conquer the ghosts from his past in order to save his friends, and do it all before the time machine goes dormant for another dozen millennia.

Synopsis It is difficult to write a stage play in a science fiction setting, but with a bit of creative back stage work these two one act plays should satisfy some of the fans out there. The Astro Repair Shop. When space travel becomes commonplace the need for shops to repair these space vessels will become vital as well. This play is set in an orbiting asteroid with three service bays and no waiting. Vanessa Xanachrome and Winston Samaroon see to that. But the ship that is Vanessa's pet project will save them when an errant tug collides with the shop. The Arcade Warrior. In a small town arcade Peter Bently enters a multi-player full immersion game with players from around the world. When one of his fellow players asks for his help in escaping from another country he must figure out how to change the game into a matter transfer portal (or transporter, if you prefer) while his team-mates continue their game.

It was all too easy. Meserplunkt and his crew would go to the planet, load up the treasure and be on their way. Unfortunately they would fall victim to the curse and would remain trapped until two brothers could save them.RanJon was not aboard the Silver Raven, Meserplunkt's ship, when she disappeared on their quest for the treasure, a fact that would haunt him until RanJon would meet Britney, a bouncy blue eyed brunette who would gather a crew in an attempt to rescue the pirates on the Silver Raven.

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Stephen Alphonzo was an arbitrator on Altron until an accident left him blind. He learned the art of black smithing in a remote village, and lived there with his daughter until a young visitor from the space port arrived and asked him for help. Now the knifewraiths, a violent race who live inthe dark, have kidnaped dignitaries from another world. Stephen and his daughter must make peace between the humans and the knifewraiths before the aliens from the other world destroy their home.

Stephen Alphonso was a blind blacksmith who had been given his sight back after forging a treaty with the knifewriaths, a nocturnal savage race on his home world of Altron. In this new adventure the treaty is strained to the breaking point as his son and nephew come home for a visit, and what is worse, the beings from off-world that restored his sight to him are involved. Cal Whems and Monjo Alphonso are the next generation of blacksmiths, and must help Stephen forge a new treaty with the knifewraiths, as well as help Stephen's son-in-law forge a treaty with the beings that restored Stephen's sight in the first place. In their quest they will travel off world, meet a pirate descendant from their past, and take part in the establishment of the pirate planet called, Tortuga. Sequel to: The Blind Blacksmith.

As a young boy, Meserplunkt learned of the location of the second legendary treasure. A planet where jewel fountains provide all the treasure a pirate could desire, if they can keep the planet from eating them, ship and all. Now Meserplunt must figure out how to keep his ship and crew from being eaten, by negotiating a peace between the planet and the trees that live there.

When The Press Wars break out, they leave Calvin Wheams, an investigative reporter is trapped on a small world where a possible solution to the two presses differences lies. In order to survive till help arrives he takes cover with a beautiful local reporter.Help arrives in the form of his writer turned warrior pen pal/girlfriend, adding more complications to an already tense situation.With the help of an old friend, Cal must ease the tensions between the two women, and deal with the leader of the other side to forge a peace treaty.

I once read the preface to a book of short stories, where the author told of making a fair amount on each of his stories individually, but not enough to justify the time he spent on each story, and then how he made up for it on the stories as an anthology. I have made precious little on the stories that follow (a bit of prize money at best) hopefully this book will make up for that.As for the title, one of my daughter made me a cross stitch picture of a story teller (with the insinuation that I was a story teller), and then I thought of all of the shows that have two part episodes and how some of my stories are my view of what happens next (whether it be one of my novels or stories, or someone else's work) or is the prequel to something else I have written or hope to write.The stories in this collection include my foray's into the western (a different genre than I usually write) flash fiction (stuff under 1000 words) fan fiction (a story from another author's universe) and filling in some of the details about characters I write about in my novels and novellas. These stories also represent exploring some of the characters that I may or may not write future novels about.This is a testing ground, where I hope to learn what readers like and want to see more of.