Delirious Scribbles are assorted short fiction tales I've written over many years. These stories allow readers and I to explore ideas, themes, and settings different from my normal published work. In many cases, these stories are early work that helped me develop my style and narrative voice.
Also, let's be honest – novels take weeks on end while a short story can go from idea to first draft in a matter of hours, and it's nice to feel the sense of accomplishment that comes with finishing a story.
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A Four Horseman Universe Story
Military Science Fiction
Earth depends on its mercenaries to survive..
Merc company taxes prevent mankind from starvation...
Could any mercs be so greedy as to cheat the starving?
Ronald Gerard didn't score high enough to join the companies. But he can still be a hero. Financial mischief fills the news, and Gerard knows the mercs are hiding things.
Proving their guilt was just the beginning.
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A Splintered Stars Story
Science Fiction/Space Opera
No one challenges the Voidrunners. No one robs their Rails. No one can beat their AI.
Not until desperation forces one young man and his friends to defy the impossible.
A motley crew of asteroid miners stage a hack on an FTL ship accelerator in a desperate act of piracy. Fate turns against them even before the heist begins. Reeling from complications, they raid the luxury liner caught in their trap only to face graver dangers...like betrayal.
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Drama/Suspense
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A Monstrouos Piracy Story
Fantasy
A pirate crew seeks out a hidden lair filled with riches while the mapmaker's hand rots away.
What will they find?
Easy plunder? A marooned sailor desperate for escape?
Dreams of treasure lure the pirates closer to the ultimate prize, but will greed turn a mother's wish for her child into a living nightmare?
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Science Fiction/Suspense
Colonizing an alien planet is dangerous...
...moreso when you're pitting your will against a strange alien world without technology.
Man against a planet, the winner's obvious, right?
Sure, unless the colonists brought something with them even more dangerous than technology. Utosh isn't Sydney DeRaol's first anti-tech colony world. The skilled blacksmith has faced everything before - except for the demon's in his mind. Visions and nightmares haunt him. Colonists are dying, and he's been the last person to see each alive.
What if Sydney is the murderer?
What if encroaching madness has warped Sydney into a monster?
Sydney races to save the colonists before whatever is affecting him finishes them all.
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A Seafaring Suspense Story
Alt History/Suspense
Death consigns a young man to life aboard ship. He struggles to learn the ropes as part of a lone ship crossing the Indian Ocean. Except, is his ship alone?
A strange fog stalks his ship. Sailors whisper of pirates and haunted derelicts. He must determine if the danger's real or a cruel joke on the new cabin boy.
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A Mature Dark Fantasy
Alt History/Dark Fantasy
When the red star glares, danger stalks the land...
In the dark ages, women were property and nobles took whatever they wanted.
When a peasant girl is forced to travel through a dark and foggy night filled with ill omens, fortune and misfortune ambush her on the road home.
Beneath the glare of the red star, she discovers a rare treasure. Pursued by a mad Lord and stalked by a mysterious stranger, her whole world is turned upside down.
When everything she loves comes under attack, she must choose between running away and revealing a gift that could alter the kingdom forever....
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One young man caught between warring intergalactic powers must make a choice that could save worlds or ruin galaxies.
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Book Details
Category: Young Adult Science Fiction Adventure / Space Opera
Series: Scion (Book 1)
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Delirious Scribbles Ink (June 7, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13:
Trade Paperback: 978-1944357009
Hardback: 978-1944357016
Kindle eBook: 978-1944357030
EPUB eBook: 978-1944357023
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[two_third_last]Book 1 Synopsis:
[thrive_drop_caps color=’blue’ style=’1′]A[/thrive_drop_caps]n alien force has descended upon Earth. Fighters bombard the ruins. Monsters hunt the wastes – some humans serving the Welorin in order to indulge their petty cruelties. The last free survivors struggle against starvation and capture. It’s a world where friendship costs too dearly and heroics verge on suicide.
One young man simply can’t resist either. Welorin torture machines ravage his world, filling it with literal nightmares. Cannibalistic aerobics instructors hunt him and snatcher teams dog his every step. Alaric attempts one rescue after another, hoping someone might possess keys to unlock memories stolen by the initial assault.
An aborted rescue lands him in a three way fight between Welorin forces and interstellar raiders. He takes cover in the pirates’ ship, coercing its AI, Cassii, into helping him. Success comes with unexpected consequence as Cassii abandons her crew, his friends and Earth’s solar system.
Cassii refuses to return to Earth, decrying her former captain’s despoiling of the ship’s weapons and armor. Alaric leverages goods stolen from Earth by Cassii’s former crew into a bid at privateering. Surrounded by tech he barely understands and exotic life forms, he’s easy prey for the Protectorate’s mercenary population.
Escort Captain Manc Shepherd and the sultry pirate Tyne Ren – Manc’s onetime partner – manipulate, exploit and seduce him across the stars. Alaric’s perilous heroics complicate their tug-of-war, endangering both and Alaric’s ship – their intended prize.
Alaric must decide who he is, what he holds dear and how far he’ll go to protect both. He must choose who to trust: his mentor, his temptress or his smitten ship’s AI. The right choice could save worlds. The wrong one could throw him into a desperate battle to save thousands from his betrayer at the cost of his truest friend.[/two_third_last]
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Criminals haunt the star lanes almost unopposed, but to beat the pirates at their own game Alaric risks everything, even his soul.
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Book Details
Category: Young Adult Science Fiction Adventure / Space Opera
Series: Scion (Book 2)
Paperback: 378 pages
Publisher: Delirious Scribbles Ink (September 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-13:
Trade Paperback: 978-1944357108
Hardback: 978-1944357115
Kindle eBook: 978-1944357139
EPUB eBook: 978-1944357122
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[thrive_drop_caps color=’blue’ style=’1′]A[/thrive_drop_caps]laric’s made a new life in the Protectorate despite his missing memories. His ship’s AI, Cassii, and a successful trading venture help fill his accounts with enough credits to finish repairing his ship for a rescue mission to Earth. Or would have, had his heroics not smashed Cassiopeia once more.
His interference with the Corollas crime syndicate fills his thruster wash with more than just an angry ex-mentor. Pirates thrive on the star lanes, preying on all those who stray within their sights. Cassii’s been stolen and with her Alaric’s hopes to rescue his friends. Pirates, bounty hunters, and disgruntled plants besiege him along all vectors, preventing his capture of the scum responsible.
Alaric recruits a reluctant doctor, a pacifistic AI, and several escort pilots to help him chase down Cassii. Kindhearted decisions leave Alaric wallowing in misery. Deaths and desperation, financial losses and constant attack force him to make dark choices that threaten all.
Alaric embraces the vast interstellar emptiness, struggling to harden himself enough to thwart the Protectorate’s criminal elite. Every sacrifice he makes to rescue Cassii seems to cost chunks of his soul. Will he free her before he loses himself or will she return to find her beloved captain a worse villain than her kidnapper?
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He worked his whole adult life to ascend the echelons of the Corollas crime syndicate. Alaric’s betrayal destroyed it all and only the kid’s life can buy the vengeance Manc really desires.
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Book Details
Category: Young Adult Science Fiction Adventure / Space Opera
Series: Scion (Book 2+)
Paperback: 132 pages
Publisher: Delirious Scribbles Ink (April 4, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-13:
International Trade Paperback: 978-1944357191
eBook: 978-1944357207
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[two_third_last]Book 2.5 Synopsis:
[thrive_drop_caps color=’blue’ style=’1′]M[/thrive_drop_caps]anc Shepherd’s alive and mad as hedrin.
His plan to trap Alaric backfired, nearly costing his life. His backup ambush failed. The kid’s in the wind and Corollas want Manc for the death of Birak and Strepe—the Bishop’s enforcers. Everything he’s done to attain a position within the Corollas upper echelon has been blasted to ashes, but Manc’s not willing to give up his vendetta against the Bishop.
Manc puts in motion a plan to capture Alaric and leverage the kid for a bloody meeting with the Bishop. Much as he did before with Cassii’s module, he hunts Alaric’s friends and loved ones starting with Tyne.
The sultry piratess falls prey to Manc’s trap, but isn’t about to lay down and die. Tyne determines to undermine his efforts from within, sacrificing herself to protect Alaric. She isn’t alone. Corollas, Protectorate Intelligence and the mysterious Kingsman put themselves in Manc’s way.
How far will Manc go for revenge? Will he successfully hijack Alaric’s friends while avoiding Corollas assassins? Will he survive to another showdown with Alaric, and if so, what will Alaric do to free his friends?
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Coming Soon!
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