The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes Richard’s struggle to restore good to the world. After the initial international run,...

My Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers run like a raging river. I’m now in the editing process with my next thriller, “The Apothecary.” Please go to my website for excerpts, synopses, and book trailers of all...

Underneath the groundyou can’t hear a soundnot even the sweet falling rainyou might forget about tomorrowforget about the swallowsbut they won’t forget youthey won’t forget you

Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper…

If you like Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Vampires, this is for you! (Kathi Humphries (Design) on ‘ORPHANS – Time is running out’ by Ian Dewar)

Better an honest devil than a lying angel…

But the things in the batteries couldn’t be spiders. It just wasn’t possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

Jesus honey, your husband ain’t dead, he’s in hiding.” He growled, watching her visibly flinch. – Jase Devlin

Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.

Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.

I will not mince words. There’s been enough mincing for one day. Therefore, I shall ask my question bluntly: How does a man know that his body has been turned inside out? … His eyes...

I’m not ready to die.

Never patronize your readers. That means don’t talk down to them.

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

When she was living one of her fantasies she felt like a bird, the freedom of its wings letting her soar without earthly boundaries, enabling her to look on to her vividly imagined scenes from...

Henry was now very annoyed; he had dug himself into a hole so deep that they didn’t make a rope long enough.

You’ll be pretty again, I promise.

Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It’s not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One

Knowing too much had turned him into something else, and he wasn’t sure he liked this newer him, although he felt he could not stop being this other him, darker.

Unintended jealousy is merciless.

Who the hell you think would be answering his phone?” I snarled.

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn’t want us to find out?

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can’t you?It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.

Another misconception is that desires are insatiable. Admittedly, for the small segment of society that is clinically deranged, this statement may not hold true. But for those seeking riches, pleasure, or power, too much of...

I came, I saw, I copied, and I left

Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds.

But as Max tugged him out the door a different feeling stole over him, something strange, behind the regret, deeper than the mourning. It wasn’t until much later that he was able to identify it.Excitment.

Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?

Despite his elegant appearance, Mr. Gweta’s most striking asset was his alluring personality. Professor Khupe had met few such men in his life. Their warmth made everyone feel like they were their best friend. They...

Honey, you worry too much. Nothing is going to happen, I mean come on, you’re in the house of Mr. Hausefalle, the guru of home security! You’re probably safer over there than here.”- House Trap,...

At a hundred and twenty five miles per hour, with the wind rushing in his face, darkness around him, he is alone in the universe, but then, Zeb has been alone all his life.

What do you mean, my life is at risk?” I questioned. “From one of the other professors?””Oh, it goes much deeper than that, Freddy,” he said with a half crazed, wide eyed smile. Leaning in,...

Birds chirped and hawked in the distance. A group of them, maybe vultures, circled the sky. Rae glanced at the blanket. Those damn birds could probably smell Marissa, and the second everyone left, they’d pounce...

It was a dark, dismal afternoon, like they all seem to bethese days, when I got this call. I could hear the rainbattering the windowpane of my office when the phone rang.

No evil ever came from a woman’s womb that wasn’t placed there first by a man.’… Tantie Neptune, Lucifer’s Key by Charles A. Cornell, due 2013

I do not possess the ability to draw or paint.I can’t sing or dance.I can’t knit or sew. But I am an artist. I have the ability to put onto paper, words that tell an...

This was a part he didn’t like. It made him feel like a jailer, or a kidnapper.”Another sin, another string of Hail Marys,” he said, sitting on the edge of the bed. So much was...

WEST SALEM ~ October 2011A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure turned from the shadows of his grisly handiwork and stared at Sorcha.Her muscles tensed....

Ah ha!” the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. “The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

How easy would it be to let the words uncurl from my tongue and glide slowly into the space between us? Let them light up the room in bright-orange neon: Here’s your answer! Here’s what...

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.

Apparently, we’re all in the frame,” I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger surged. Then stopped, dead – as I suddenly took in Handsome, Robert and...

She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in...

Regress towards progress – Dr Wannamaker

Well, whatever happened here today…’ he said, turning back to Popescu and donning his own sunglasses so he could discreetly cast his gaze over her figure,’…it was only the beginning.

The Gobi wasn’t completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some of those forms of life weren’t the kind that Anna...

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.