Novellas and Short Stories
Horror & SF/Fantasy
One hundred years from now, America is a very different place. Central authority has collapsed. Infrastructure has broken down. Science and learning are slipping away.
The northeast survives as a collection of independent city-states called freeholds. No one dares to cross the no-man’s-land between them ... until the summer night when a stranger arrives at Brighton Freehold, having crossed ten klicks of untamed ground. He comes with a warning. An army from the south is on the march, destroying everything it finds. And Brighton is next in its path.
The northeast survives as a collection of independent city-states called freeholds. No one dares to cross the no-man’s-land between them ... until the summer night when a stranger arrives at Brighton Freehold, having crossed ten klicks of untamed ground. He comes with a warning. An army from the south is on the march, destroying everything it finds. And Brighton is next in its path.
"Do you believe in life after death?" It's a question Daniel Brand finds himself answering after he picks up a mysterious woman on the side of an Arizona highway long after midnight. The issue isn't merely philosophical. His passenger, Claire Holland, is a psychic medium on the run from a secret conspiracy holding the key to the truth about life, death ... and what comes after.
Chasing Omega is a 30,000 word paranormal thriller seasoned with cosmological speculation and spiritual exploration.
Chasing Omega is a 30,000 word paranormal thriller seasoned with cosmological speculation and spiritual exploration.
Imagine that you turn a corner and find yourself inexplicably transposed to the world of your childhood. George McGovern is running for president. A can of tuna fish costs forty-nine cents.
And there’s no way out.
You must be there for a reason. And you begin to suspect what it is. If you’re right, it will require you to take a man's life in an act of cold-blooded, premeditated murder. But that’s okay.
You’ve murdered before …
And there’s no way out.
You must be there for a reason. And you begin to suspect what it is. If you’re right, it will require you to take a man's life in an act of cold-blooded, premeditated murder. But that’s okay.
You’ve murdered before …
In the days of the Emperor Hadrian, three legionnaires come upon a scroll stolen from Alexandria's great library, pointing the way to a thousand-year-old labyrinth of tombs. It's the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance at riches beyond measure. To win it, they must desert their legion, sail up the Nile, and trek into the blazing western desert — the realm of the Theban dead.
The battle-hardened veterans believe they are ready for anything. But even they aren't prepared for what they find in an ancient burial ground hidden beneath the sand — a necropolis sacred to the lion goddess Pakhet, She of the Sharp Claws.
The battle-hardened veterans believe they are ready for anything. But even they aren't prepared for what they find in an ancient burial ground hidden beneath the sand — a necropolis sacred to the lion goddess Pakhet, She of the Sharp Claws.
Wake up to a new kind of terror—an electrifying chase through the concrete labyrinth of a steam-tunnel system, where something lurks in the shadows.
Something big. Something hungry.
It's blood sport for the crazies who organize these nocturnal hunts. But the latest victim is a man well acquainted with death. A man who has murdered for money. A man who intends to hunt the thing that's hunting him—and kill it.
Kill it hard.
Something big. Something hungry.
It's blood sport for the crazies who organize these nocturnal hunts. But the latest victim is a man well acquainted with death. A man who has murdered for money. A man who intends to hunt the thing that's hunting him—and kill it.
Kill it hard.
Mystery
“My mama named me without the slightest inkling that there might be a hidden meaning to the name she picked…”
So begins the saga of Annabel Lee Stedman, divorcee, life coach, and all-around good person, who unfortunately happens to share the name of a dead lady in an Edgar Allan Poe poem. Pure coincidence, of course. There’s surely no dark side to Annabel’s life. She’s all sunshine and goodness, all the time.
Or so she believes…
So begins the saga of Annabel Lee Stedman, divorcee, life coach, and all-around good person, who unfortunately happens to share the name of a dead lady in an Edgar Allan Poe poem. Pure coincidence, of course. There’s surely no dark side to Annabel’s life. She’s all sunshine and goodness, all the time.
Or so she believes…
Nothing ever happens in Dogtown. The people here—lost souls, all—go through the motions of their days, living in tents, scrounging for food and cash.
Shaw is one of them, no better than the rest. Then a woman named Lily turns up dead in her tent with a knife in her back—murdered in circumstances that make it an impossible crime, one of those locked- room brainteasers that defy logic. And Shaw is the only one in Dogtown who can piece the puzzle together and point the finger of guilt.
Because he’s the only one who cares …
Shaw is one of them, no better than the rest. Then a woman named Lily turns up dead in her tent with a knife in her back—murdered in circumstances that make it an impossible crime, one of those locked- room brainteasers that defy logic. And Shaw is the only one in Dogtown who can piece the puzzle together and point the finger of guilt.
Because he’s the only one who cares …
Short stories
Seventeen stories, many never before published, ranging from mystery and suspense to horror, fantasy, and science-fiction.
Included are "Stalkerama," an Abby Sinclair adventure; "Rite of Passage," about a young boy who suspects his father of a terrible crime; "Long Goat," a tale of voodoo in Los Angeles; "Voivode," a search for the real Dracula; and the title story, "Steel Trap," about forbidden love in the red-light district of a future Singapore.
Included are "Stalkerama," an Abby Sinclair adventure; "Rite of Passage," about a young boy who suspects his father of a terrible crime; "Long Goat," a tale of voodoo in Los Angeles; "Voivode," a search for the real Dracula; and the title story, "Steel Trap," about forbidden love in the red-light district of a future Singapore.
"This little story," says Michael Prescott, "may be only eight pages long, but it took a surprisingly long time to come together.
"It started with a vivid dream and proceeded with bits and pieces that I jotted down for more than a year. The finished story reflects some conclusions I've reached about life, death, and the meaning of things, after more than twenty years of reading and writing on spirituality, consciousness, and postmortem survival."
"It started with a vivid dream and proceeded with bits and pieces that I jotted down for more than a year. The finished story reflects some conclusions I've reached about life, death, and the meaning of things, after more than twenty years of reading and writing on spirituality, consciousness, and postmortem survival."
A graphic short story created just for fun, with a couple of pretty neat twists.
Humor
The best laid plans of squirrels and men ...
"For my first book written specifically for the ebook market," Michael Prescott says, "I tried something very different—Die Stupid, a goofball send-up of the thriller genre.Sadly, my regular readers (killjoys all) were not amused. What can I say? I still think it’s funny."
Buy Die Stupid in an ebook edition for just $2.99 and regret it for the rest of your life.
Or make the even more questionable decision to buy the trade paperback edition for nine bucks you will never get back.
"For my first book written specifically for the ebook market," Michael Prescott says, "I tried something very different—Die Stupid, a goofball send-up of the thriller genre.Sadly, my regular readers (killjoys all) were not amused. What can I say? I still think it’s funny."
Buy Die Stupid in an ebook edition for just $2.99 and regret it for the rest of your life.
Or make the even more questionable decision to buy the trade paperback edition for nine bucks you will never get back.
"The bloody war between King Obamandias and the Lady Hildebeast, as it was written by Mr. Owen Fusterbuster, Gent., with the pleasant japes of the braggart Brian of Williams, the lamentations of Monica, the merry songs of Bill the Bastard, and the antic foolery of Colbert, the toad. As it has been played several times at the Squat and Gobble by the Lord High Dog-Walker's Men."