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This short piece of nonfiction is important to me. As a writer, I have been influenced by many things, none of which more than "Star Trek".

One year after the Shattering and the great collapse, survivors in Columbus, Ohio, are barely holding things together. Then, on December 24, when all seemed lost, a new hero appears, and he is determined to protect all the children of the Earth.

Following the war with Ast-Murath, Meg Carson finds herself at a crossroads. Losing the woman she loved and the man she considered a brother, she goes on a journey of growth and exploration. From the realm of the dead, to high above the Earth, Meg searches for closure and a release from the pain of loss.

My name is Darren Eddington, Lord of Bluestone Manor, Colonel in His Majestys Special Air Service, Deputy Director of Section Nine, and the last living descendant of Dr. Henry Jekyll, also known as Mr. Hyde. I am the last hope for the survival of the United Kingdom. You already know the story of what my Godfather Franklin Castle, known to some of you as Frankenstein’s Monster, did in the hours following the end of the world. But you don’t know what my new partner the beautiful Weretigress Niyati and I did in those same hours.

Twin brother and sister Hugo and Lila sit on the corner of Main Street while the world around them burns.

Welcome to the 1881 Trials, the first in Preserve Number Six. It's a complicated set of Trials in a hastily assembled playing field and overseen personally by the Director. This is when everything changed.

When the dead rose, society collapsed. First went the landlines, then went the cell service. The power died and with it went television, radio, and the internet. In all but the luckiest of areas communications beyond the level of hand-delivered mail and smoke signals were the norms. In the days, weeks, and months following the death of civilization, The Relay rose to fill the void.

Some said the world would end in the cold. Some said the world would end in a fire. Some said when there was no more room in hell the dead would rise up to devour the living. Nobody thought it would be because of the corn.

A Bahamian Cruise. A dysfunctional family. An out of this world occurrence. (This short story is a vignette that will one day be the basis for a novel).

Half a century after Harwick slammed into the Earth and nearly ended human civilization humanity is getting back on its feet. In the rebuilding city of Atlanta. A young grad student presents his mentor with the diary of the Traveler. A person of myth and legend the traveler crisscrossed North America collecting the stories of the survivors of Hardwick but rarely spoke of his own adventures. In this original tome, the secrets of the traveler are finally scratched.

What really happened when the first man and the first woman were expelled from paradise? Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Garden, part of the expansive Hildenverse of stories.

When the time comes, and the world lies on the brink of extinction, who will stand with humanity against the Old Gods and their minions? On the eve of the Apocalypse, a small parish priest comes face to face with a creature as old as time. However, is he here to help us in our most desperate moment of need or will he help usher in the new age of darkness and chaos? Is the Lightbringer our enemy or is he the hero humanity doesn't deserve?

Humanity lives in the sunlit world of what we believe to be reality. Unknown to most there is, unseen by most, another world, possibly many other worlds, running side by side with our own. The Marquette Institute and Department of Preternatural Activities (DPA) are the latest in a long and illustrious line of organizations established to help safeguard the human race from the monsters living in the spaces between reality and nightmares. These stories just scratch the surface of the operations and investigations conducted in almost 200 years of operation.

Following the death of her maternal grandfather, 16-year-old Allison and her mother move back to the family farm in rural West Virginia. When they arrive on the isolated mountain homestead, old memories, suppressed for a decade, surface, and Allison realizes reality isn’t what she’d been raised to believe it to be. It soon becomes clear to Allison that their return to the farm is far from a random event and that in the end, she will once more have to confront what hides behind the door in the basement.

This is the story of the Christmas that almost wasn't. The Christmas when the question of whether there is a Santa Claus was finally decided in Virginia. The Christmas when the dead rose to devour the living and only one person had the strength to rally humanity and lead us to victory. This is the story of the Christmas when Santa Claus fought the Zombies.

In a matter of seconds the sun, moon, and stars disappeared from the sky, replaced by an inky, infinite blackness. Global communications were disrupted, and chaos reigned worldwide as panic set in, and humanity reset to its basest of behaviors and most primal of natural instincts.

The world of the professional truck driver can be a lonely one. For Roy Harper, a man for whom loneliness coupled emotional baggage and a series of life failures, it all may be too much to handle. It all comes to a head when he is tormented by a younger driver who is the quintessential "Bully" on the road.

When the world is ending and monsters of myth and legend roam the land there is only one person the human race can count on to stand on our side: Frankenstein! From his fortress deep in the arctic Frank gathers the information needed to determine the threats facing the world. Contacting friends and colleagues from his centuries of life, he prepares to ride out the storm of death and chaos.

The world as it had been ended in less than a day. An ancient evil that had been relegated to the most ancient of myths and legends has returned. The dead rose to consume the flesh of the living and only the lucky and the strong were able to survive the initial onslaught. Three groups of survivors must come together and unite against an army of the dead lead by a dark priest and his human followers who are looking to find the key to opening the barriers between worlds and turn the Earth into a true realm of the dead.

The world stands on the brink of collapse and the only people who can save it are two strippers from Canada and a telepathic rabbit with the transplanted mind of a 96-year-old timber baron.