Short Stories/Novellas

Captain Trude Vollans, the pirate queen of the South Seas, has inherited The Gonne, a kinetic galvitron. The magnificent weapon shoots a searing light that will rip open the envelope of a dirigible and make the taking of valuable cargo easier, leaving the ship intact. But the gonne needs a crystal to focus the steam powered weapon. Not just any crystal either. A special blue crystal of rare Kenjite, the size of a goose egg. Only one person can obtain it, the venerable Li Ping of the House of Lotus Blossoms. Li Ping is as much a criminal as Captain Trude, and can’t be trusted any more than Captain Trude. Time for some Pirate Tea to coax the crystal into the light.

Can two people badly abused in life find happiness together when dead?

Death has one last appointment to fulfill before the new year begins. If he does not make this appointment time will stop. Souls will drift endlessly in the void.But who is the last appointment in Death's book?

Lilith and her crew of Archangels protect humanity from the Hellmouth at the Den of Iniquity. But on Christmas Eve the Brew Pub runs out of special ingredients for the their protective ale and the Hellmouth is hungry.