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Elysium II- Black Water- Yes, blue water and blue light makes black water. But this is Elysium system. Having done a hell of a job on Elysium I, my wife and I are sent on what might be a one way trip to the barren and difficult second planet for a rescue mission. But there is a warlord to consider, a man who weaseled his way into power, then cut the ties and the reins and owns the place. As a Captain in the MPs, I cannot allow it. Luckily, there are Rebel Forces in place that I can reshape, build up and maybe take the planet back. It will be a hell of a ride, by me, my little Lacy and you. ...

. No one wanted to be the last man… or woman… standing. The human’s domination was over. In the late twenty second century, Cyborgs had come to life, literally. From simple robots, run by programmed computers, filled with Artificial Intelligence features, scientists tried to outdo one another in the race to build a sentient robot. Now, they had succeeded far beyond their own limited imaginations. Cyborgs. The things looked human, they spoke like humans, they acted like humans, dressed like humans, and sure enough, they soon began to control every facet of human living… and began ...

Sam L. King, Slick to his friends and enemies, is a happy-go-lucky, well off Private Investigator with no clue at all of his hidden capabilities. Returning from a successful skip trace, he finds himself in the sights of lady of dubious character. But this lady is not without her own secrets, and she soon brings him around to her side, pulling him into a wild, fanciful battle to save her life, if at least not his own. Things progress, as they often do when two people spend enough time on their favorite hobby, but they do so looking over their shoulders for the vicious witches that plague her...

It started innocently enough. A beau calling his girl to Denver. A working girl finding a new life. A gambler scooting out from angry drunks who lost. A rancher heading home after a successful sale of a prize bull. Yes, innocent enough. But as the days rolled by, slowly, there seemed to be an awful lot of attention from bandits on this one Wells Fargo Stagecoach. Even the Apache are harassing them half the time. It is like they cannot trust anybody! Along the way, skills no woman should bring to the trail arise. They will be needed, and soon. It does not become clear until the twelfth day, ...

Ginger is a well-respected, top-notch security professional in the ether of the IT and satellite world. She can fix or break whatever she chooses, but her white hat has her on the positive side of hacking. Her husband, Detective Guy Fowler needs help. An extortionist is raking hundreds of thousands from victims, through performance and threat issues. Only one person can find him. Ginger gets into a dangerous cat-and-mouse game as she alternately locks the creep’s accounts, then teases him… or her… to meet for the keys. But the focus is beginning to point to Ginger’s best friend, ...

CHAOS History: According to Zoroastrianism, the main religion in the Persian Empire, Ahriman or Angra Mainyu was the god of all that is bad and chaotic in the world. He is the evil twin brother of Spenta Mainyu or Ahura Mazda; the “Wise Lord.” Everything that the latter one did, Ahriman would do the opposite. This where it all started. We are nearing where it will finish. Sound familiar?

Even the most determined space sailor will grow tired of the endless search for a habitable planet. And this one looks really good. Earth-like, but it is exactly mirrored. There is no sign of life, at first which might mean a silent world, theirs for the taking. Good air, water, land, and all they need. Except for the damned roaches. Remember the warning? When all else is gone, who or what will rule the world? Yeah, cockroaches. Then it is proven that life died as we know it more than twenty to thirty thousand years ago! Is this the world we are heading for on Earth? Could be. Now they ...

There will come a time when mankind must seek new homes as Earth is full up. There are two ways to do this: new planets, and huge space stations. Those stations are already on the drawing boards. We will find ways to expand a simple station to hold a half million people, someday, but that is a long way out. And we will need many of them. This is not a warning. It is merely a test that stood for a long time and would have remained forever, had they not met aliens. If they are out there, they are not part of the plan and things can go awry. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller

He came home in one piece, a long damned war, in the blues, fighting the grays. It was over. But he had no idea what some would carry their fight well beyond the battlefield. Abe was a man who could take care of himself. Not necessarily those he loved. What he could do was pick up and try again, in spite of the odds. Now he was put to the test. Would it never end? He found good people from those he hardly understood, and, by God, he would answer that deliberate challenge. His way. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller

In the land of the frozen north, Norway, there lived people of interesting skills. Survival was to the fittest, the most talented, and often most persistent. Dragons are, of course, mythical and exist in a place called Imagination, the land that children keep alive. But this is not a children's tale. A dragon is loose in Viking land, and the people are no match for it. It will take a very determined woman and her man to try to tame it, but as we know, you cannot trust a dragon. Enjoy! #TheStorytreller

Detective Sergeant of Miami PD was thrust violently out of 1999. Held in a life sustaining coma, a subject of experiments and bold attempts for hundreds of years, her brain remained alive. Alive yes, but not aware through it all. Two centuries later, though the medical community was demanding she be unplugged, a very specialized Doctor of Cybernetics, a relatively new field in the late twenty second century, made a daring decision. Valerie Harper endured some terrifying times, some dreadful therapy, and eventually, she walked out of the Grogain Institute of Cybenetics, a new woman… inside...

This is a tongue in cheek tale of a highly romantic but very illogical song written forty plus years ago, Seven Spanish Angels. Perhaps if we look over the players, one will go with God, and perhaps, one will not. But the song relays the wrong message. Tragic, but the west and Mexico were full of this dichotomy. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller

Raven is a woman on a mission. She has little room for a man in her busy life. True, she wins at all things. It is her personality, her determination and her skills that get her what she wants. However, they can get her in trouble, too. Those are lessons. She will tell you her story. Perhaps, it will save you your own hard learned lessons. Wisdom comes from mistakes. It is not easily passed on. But, she can try... Enjoy. She is waiting...

The young Count-Heir was not much different than a lot of his late teen generation in 1866. But he had it made if he stayed put and paid his dues learning his father's company. But he was a dreamer. Far, rugged wilderness called. Being Frenchy the fur trapper seemed so romantic. Or, changing one out for another, perhaps a ranch? Maybe a steamboat Captain shipping furs. A gunman? Maybe. Hell, why not a mink farm? Yeah, that seemed great! But life is what happens when we make plans. Especially if you have a good woman by your side.. #TheStoryteller.

A Texas Ranger in the late 1880s had a poor life expectancy. Too many outlaws, too lonely a vigil, and too many times, complacency. This last, the band of all law enforcement right up into this era. Billy Verde had a lonely trail to ride on patrol, and through he faced down many outlaws and Mexican trespassers, it was a dull job. Mostly. Until, one day, it was not. Then he discovered the afterlife. Maybe Purgatory, where the good and bad are somehow sorted out. He discovered Chance, an old Ranger who had been on the job in this odd world for more than fifty years, with a history no one can ...

Four snippets of history from the richest boomtown silver producing territory in the USA. But under the history were the human tales, some of love, some outlaws, and yes, the law. Learn a little history, and yes, #TheStoryteller will make it very interesting. Most now are almost ghost towns, some tourist traps, but life goes on.

It started as a better way to enhance the James Webb Space Telescope. A unit that looked the other way. It needed a team of people, and it needed a helpful AI system. Artificial Intelligence took over most of the work, but it did not rule out the need for human hands and minds. Then came a devastating discovery. A civilization of cyborgs, AI driven units in an expanding, circular wave, carefully harvesting only the warm planets like Earth, in a rapidly growing flat plane right toward Earth itself. It will take the combined minds of man and AI alike to stop the scourge, before it is too late...

It is a dangerous damned business, and only the strongest survive. But the enemy is not one man, but hundreds, and they are like the Hydra, with plenty of backup candidates to fill in behind them. There are talented agents sent out against that tide of traffickers and drug cartels, but they know the chances they take. If the CIA is smart, they will not let the best be ground down to nothing. There has to be a way out, but that, too, is not easy. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller.

Fearless explorer, Dr. Jon Ashbury, lives for that next find. The one that will bring him fame and fortune. Already successful with several behind him, he wants more. But what he does not realize is that what he really misses is right before him, when his chopper goes down in the Sahara Desert. Rescued, brought back to life, he discovers that he was mere kilometers from that very find, both in riches and in love. He is held firmly by both. But then it escalates. However, with fame and fortune come those who would steal, even kill for it. Can he hold what he has, keep his village innocent, ...

Roland was a man out of place, a boy who had been pushed through the system, learning war, learning Christianity and learning to kill. Like most soldiers, he did not learn to hate. He followed orders just as soldiers do in this era. But he came from the thirteenth century, the sixth and seventh crusades. He did not hate the infidels, he simply did as he was told, and did it well. However, he bravely fought through Damietta as the Templar Knights, all of 290 strong in their frightening armor and massive horses, along with well over a 200,000 member strong Frankish army and calvary (French), ...