Catori ran through the woods, her arms and legs pumping as hard as her sixteen-year-old muscles could move. She could hear her heartbeat pounding in her ears, and her lungs burned with the effort to suck in more air. The young Cherokee girl stifled a cry as another branch slapped…

Piotr Kowalczyk lived by a simple mantra, “Sweep and live.” He was an old man, nearly sixty-five, in July 1943 when the Nazis had rounded up all two hundred and thirty-five people in his small village of Michniów and executed all but the two dozen or so who were sent…

Reed gripped the Mossberg shotgun in his hand as he quickly moved through the brush. A cruel smile crossed his lips as he heard the nearby whimpering and snarling that signaled he had caught a wolf in his trap. …

Katerina turned her head to hide her tears in the straw-filled pillow as she clutched her favorite doll, Sarah, close to her chest. She always tried to be brave for her parents and older sister when they hid in the cellar. It was cold and damp in the cellar and…

For all of those who have followed my stories on Medium, and all of my new readers, I am looking for reviewers for my new horror anthology, Hell Shall Make You Fear Again. Hell Shall Make You Fear Again. Fear the darkness. Fear the shadows. Fear what comes in the…

For all of those who have followed my stories on Medium, and all of my new readers, I am looking for reviewers for my new anthology of folklore, Legend of the Deer Woman and Other Tales to Warm the Hearth. Legend of the Deer Woman is currently available on Amazon…

Ya-Wei Technologies’ DRAGONLink system is recognized as the most advanced high-speed, low-latency broadband internet service on the commercial market. The company’s constellation of highly advanced satellites operating in low orbit around the planet eclipsed that of even their American competitor, StarLink. Initially founded by scientists at the Chinese Academy of…

Tim Asher stood on the bridge of the Sea Spike and watched the small fleet of fishing boats fan out into a wide semi-circle. His dark eyes squinted at the vessels, making out the forms racing on the decks to prepare the ships. Asher felt his stomach muscles tighten, a…

Eleko sat cross-legged on the earthen floor; he held the one-foot length chain by its middle link and swung it gently over the large square of dark cloth lying flat on the ground. The thin chain consisted of four concave nuts from an Opele tree linked at equidistant intervals down…