Fiction Thrillers
THE CUBIT : The 2012 Trilogy Volume I
Book Jacket Description: Desperate and unlikely strangers become friends to fight against what they believe will be the corruption of their small Texas island community by casino gambling. What they discover is the real threat, one born ages ago and predestined for the End Time. The Cubit waits for them. Soon, no one knows who is real and who is dead.
In this first book of The 2012 Trilogy, Billy and his friends begin a journey which will end with the world's ultimate fate on December 21, 2012. What are the mysteries of the Cubit? What are the mysteries of the Djed? And what do the ancient ruins in Arizona and Mexico have to do with these mysteries?
For 26,000 years, the Mayans have known the end was coming. The 2012 Trilogy is a chronicle of these final frightening days.
Synopsis and more available at 
http://www.TheCubit.com
THE DJED: The 2012 Trilogy Volume II
Book Jacket Description: Now on a mission to find out what it was the good professor was looking for in Sedona, Arizona, the survivors from Port Aransas continue their journey, unknowing and in constant conflict with their own denials about the end of the world. They soon find that to raise the Djed is to become invincible but the search for the ceremonial hall abandoned by the ancient Anasazi tribe just might kill them first.
What do the X-Games and a pharmaceutical company have to do with Armageddon? And who can they really trust? What waits for them in Mexico? At Chechen Itza? In Puerto Morelos?
Something out there is making sure that their destiny is served fresh and cold and dead.
Synopsis and more available at http://www.TheDjed.com
O-TIME: PUSH*: The 2012 Trilogy Volume III, Part One
PART ONE
The third volume of The 2012 Trilogy transformed in the summer of 2010 into what will become a trilogy itself.
0-TIME: PUSH* is set one year after the heroic encounters near El Castillo in the historic Mayan ruins of Tulum. Michael Arden is introduced as an investigative video journalist and documentarian who has stumbled onto the dark secrets of a new recreational drug that programs euphoria into the minds of its users. Phoenix International is to blame but will Arden have enough time and luck to reveal the truth on Fox News Morning?
More Fiction - Short Stories
Novellette- Re-Released as a novelltte in O-Time: PUSH*: The 2012 Trilogy III
I lived in Phoenix for much of my teen life and grew quite fond of the great Southwest. And though I love the beach as well, there are no oceans in the desert. But there is the Salt River. And there is the kickback, drink suds, and scorch-your-body-all-day activity known as tubing
the Salt. This was my inspiration for writing The Edge of Hell. It provided me a way to relive some of the best times of my life while twisting that fun into a horrific tale. I've never
tubed the Salt at night, but - just perhaps - the adventure would unwind something like this.
Available online at http://www.SmashWords.com as an e-Book
It really does happen! For all of you aspiring authors who thought the road to publication always entailed a lot of time and a lot of rejection, I'm here to tell you that ain't necessarily so (though it is the norm). Blood Barters was written in two hours, and upon submission for publication, was accepted by the first magazine to which it was submitted. I wrote it after watching an episode of the X-Files in which Mulder is seduced by a vampiress who offers to share her blood in a nightclub. She pricks the end of her finger and offers the blood to Mulder who denies her. Blood Barters is set back in my teenage hometown of Phoenix. And it follows a similar plot: the sharing of bad blood. I actually have a part two to this short story that I hope to finish some day.
Coming Soon as an e-Book
The setting, of course, is of paramount importance in any story, fact or fiction. Stephen King made small towns in Maine, particularly Castle Rock, central to many tomes of fiction. There's just something about rural America that can easily be twisted into many things disturbing. One often expects to find blood and fear and confrontation in the Big City but move that story into a small town, say in Maine, and what was once rote and stereotypically urban is transformed into something real and right next door. In the case of The Worms Within Us my choice of rural setting is West Virginia (where I currently live). Talk about secrets, the towns in West Virginia have tons! The Worms Within Us began what I hoped would be several stories (including Muldoon's Nursery and New Places, New Homes) set in towns across Appalachia. Worms journals what one salesman finds in Perol, West Virginia. Is it industrial waste or something much further Within?
Novellette- Scheduled for New Release as a part of a Collection in 2013
Who would you trust to protect you from those who might do harm in the safety of your own home? The police? A spouse? Yourself? What if you are a single woman living with constant
insomnia? You blame your pet for the lack of sleep, irritability, and an inability to perform well outside the home. Cain, a Great Dane, constantly barks in the middle of the night. But
he knows something you don't. And Cain must stand ready!
As a long-time member of the West Virginia Wesleyan College community,
black and orange runs deep in the veins. I have always been very
close to the athletics teams at the college and have been involved
with photography (and video) for many years.