War Stories

A Halloween 2022 Contest Entry
In 1920s Romania, a traumatized American soldier, a German doctor, and a local woman face an ancient, ravenous evil.

The Great War ended with a human victory - but only thanks to God's smallest lifeform. The common cold killed the Tripod Builders, but not before they left the world in ruins. Now, George Wells - son of a British author living in exile in New York - finds himself caught up in a deadly conspiracy centered on the surviving Red Martians and the hope of a nightmare future which might only be averted with all out war.

A Brinkley Family Adventures Story
Mary and Alonzo get married and find a way to convert and save other disabled vets. They travel to Iraq as mercenaries to fight ISIL until the inevitable happens. This is a sequel. Read the other three stories first or this one will not make much sense. This story is eight chapters long and completes the story to date.

Jack Kruger has been back in Brooklyn for some time now and he yearns to return to the past and witness those battles that he had studied for so many years in his military studies. The American Civil War was fresh in his memory, but now he was focused on the American Revolution and he wanted to begin in 1775 right at the beginning in order to follow the time line in a way that made it easy for him to understand Washington's strategy. / (Reviews)

Accomplished English Knight is forced to kill the Earl he serves when the Earl betrays the King to whom they both swore their oaths of allegiance. This is complicated by the fact that the Earl is a close friend of the Knight. This leaves the Knight unsettled, unable to return to the land of his birth, where he would have to face the Earl's wife. Join him as he sets out across Europe searching for an elusive inner peace, as well as a cause to pledge himself to, and maybe even love along the way.

An Air Transport Auxiliary Story
An RAF Squadron Commander has a problem - his pilots are scared of the machine they have to fly. Can a petite, young, female, ATA pilot shake them out of their fear? This is a fictional account, but something of the sort did in fact happen. No explicit sex, but a bit of romance.

A successful crop duster pilot on vacation in Scotland goes missing in a graveyard during the alignment of planets. He finds his online gaming passion and his thousands of hours of practical experience at low-level flying are required to stay alive in a different world. Traveling to another world of aggressive beasts, steam machines and world war, our hero fights to stay alive and get back home. / (Reviews)

Teenage hacker Abadai Hatem was facing a choice between several decades in Gitmo and taking the offer of a mysterious man from the USAF. Turned out Gitmo might have been safer: Thrust into a secret interstellar war between mankind and a race of psionic aliens, Abadai will forge unlikely friendships and make shocking enemies. When using psychic powers requires constant nudity, you have to become...the Naked Warrior. / (Reviews)

A little alternate history story. I’ve had the idea in my head for a while, after reading an old David Drake story, “Rescue Mission” – so the plot’s not entirely original, but I hope you enjoy the story, which is. And yep, sorry guys, no sex at all in this one. It’s much more dystopian military Sci-Fi.