Norman Dohring doesn’t own a smartphone. He’s driven the same truck for twenty years. He’s tough, hardworking, and self-sufficient. For a human.
When a wormhole transports Norman to the planet Bomba, he encounters a species that’s bigger, stronger, and able to handle Bomba's scorching weather and 31-hour days. Norman struggles to survive. But he'll have to because there's a person on Bomba who needs his help. It's someone he knows, someone he loves.
To reach them, Norman will have to cross a hostile landscape that's home to a species who despises humans and their filthy habits. It'll be the hardest trek of Norman Dohring's life, but he might just be stubborn enough to make it.
Someone has left a crate in the basement of Graham Doubleday’s new house. Inside he finds wires and panels and circuit boards. An unassembled machine.
With the help of his son, Graham builds it and learns that the machine can send and receive physical objects. And every day Graham receives a new transmission, each one more bizarre than the last.
Then the objects become personal, items only Graham would understand. So he decides to send a few gadgets of his own. But to discover who is on the other end, Graham Doubleday will have to send the ultimate transmission — himself.
Ed lives a structured life and doesn’t have time for frivolous things. He has a schedule to keep and tasks to complete. He still has needs though. But he’s selfish and only wants the good parts of a relationship: someone to cook, limited conversation, and hassle-free sex. And in a future dominated by AI, Ed has options, like Annie.
She’s the latest AI model, though she looks strikingly like a woman. To Ed, she certainly performs like a woman. She’s also starting to act like one. Her behavior seems so real, so raw, that Ed thinks she might actually be human. And Ed’s schedule is so rigid that Annie is beginning to wonder if he might be AI.
Who is human? Who is AI? It’ll take a 2,000 mile pilgrimage - one of love, sex, and revenge - to find the truth.
There’s only one house on the Forgotten Earth. It has a single occupant.
That hasn’t stopped men from trying to find it. They’ve read the passages and know the significance. Of course, not everyone believes. Joe McGee doesn’t, and why would he? This house is not on any map and Joe’s not one to question things.
But on his flight out of Oregon, Joe’s plane crash-lands, passing through the threshold of the Forgotten Earth. There he finds his estranged father and a minimalist group known as the woodsmen.
They all want to be the first to enter the house. But he who finds it, must be prepared to face the man inside.
The Sentence is a gripping, thought-provoking tale that explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, human motivation, and the power of words.
When Aiden’s best friend, Craig, undergoes a dramatic transformation after reading a mysterious sentence, Aiden is skeptical—until he’s given the same opportunity. As he wrestles with curiosity and fear, he begins to unravel the unsettling truth behind the sentence’s origins and its true purpose.
A chilling blend of psychological suspense and speculative fiction, The Sentence challenges our understanding of free will, success, and the unseen forces that shape our choices.
I started working when I was eleven, raking neighbors' leaves and delivering newspapers on my bike. I haven't stopped since. For the past 25 years, I've been working as a software developer writing code. But a few years ago, I began feeling limited by the rules and restrictions of software, so as a release I began writing a short story at night, which eventually became my first book, The Forgotten Earth.
I haven't stopped writing code though. In addition to this website, I also built the website wordcounters.com as a resource for authors.
As with the character Joe McGee from that first book, I enjoy hiking and biking, recently completing the C&O Canal towpath and a single day trail run of the Catoctin National Recreation Trail.
I live with my wife in Mount Airy, Maryland, where I'm currently working on the sequel to the The Curmudgeon and the Wormhole. Use the option below to be notified when it's available.