The Time Terrorists is a dystopian sci-fi novel about an artificially gestated and ai-enhanced human who suddenly finds herself in the middle of a war between the past and the future.

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To combat plummeting birth rates in Great America, corporations like Athena Statecraft developed Recombinants: genetically perfected and artificially gestated humans "designed" to have specific traits. It didn't take long for those same corporations to realize they could also mass produce and leverage these new humans as both knowledge workers and and physical laborers.

 

Ingrid4380 was the 43rd embryo in the "I-2080" batch of Recombinants, and she has lived and worked inside the Athena Statecraft building since she reached full fetal maturity. She has everything she needs at Athena Statecraft: a cell, a daily purpose, the perfect nutrition, and even the intelligence---and relative autonomy---to hide her unauthorized relationship with Recombinant Gavriel5678. But when a terrorist from almost a hundred years ago is caught hacking into the Recombinant AI system and executed, Gavriel5678 is recruited into the newly created Anti Time Terrorist Defense Force, and sent off to war in the past. Suddenly, Ingrid4380's life feels more like a nightmare than a steady, stable routine.

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Nearly eighty years before Gavriel5678 goes missing, a group of time travelling political activists---William, Ali, Ehi, James, Deron, and Ephraim---have discovered that the future is much more bleak than they could have ever imagined. When one of their colleagues is caught and executed in the future, they are labelled "Time Terrorists" and a dangerous and unbalanced war breaks out between the government of the future and everyone in the past. 

 

The crew must find a way to stop the war, or lose any hope for the future... And a depressed, ai-enhanced human from 2105 might just be their only hope.

The Girl with Black Eyes is a sci-fi fantasy novel about a professional thief who discovers she's more than she appears.

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Valeria Cross has never had a good life. As a child, she was teased for having all-black eyes, and then teased more viciously when she started wearing sunglasses to cover them up. Vale's father left when she was seven, her mother has been creeping towards a painful death for twenty years, and her only friends are Danmar, a demon-in-hiding, and  Chella, a socialite who Valeria's pretty sure has stolen multiple expensive items from Vale's own stash. Not that she can complain. She's been a thief as long as she could remember, stealing whatever she could to get her mother's outrageous medical bills paid and keep the landlord from evicting them from their shitty apartment. 

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Then, Vale's mom dies. Suddenly, she is debt free and able to live a normal life. Maybe even get a normal job. She always thought she'd make a good cop because she'd be able to catch thieves better than any of them. When a position opens at the local station, she applies and gets the job. Except... old habits die hard, and Vale continues to steal whatever she can and sell it in the Greaser---the shady "black market" of her city. For the thrill, for the extra cushion the money provides... she's not sure why, but she can't stop.

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One fateful Friday, Vale steals a ring that seems to call to her. When she touches it, her vision goes golden and she can see the very fabric of the world around her. Distraught, she runs to Danmar, whose knowledge of this world and worlds beyond might help her determine what powers the ring has. She leaves Danmar with the ring, only to return the next day and find that it's gone.

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Unfortunately for Vale, she stole the ring from a powerful djinn---and a powerful politician---who finds her and offers her an ultimatum: find the ring again and bring it back to him, or he'll expose Danmar and kill Chella. And Vale can't lose the only two remaining people in the universe she actually cares about. 

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What follows is a fast paced heist plot with an underlying, heart wrenching story about the choices we make to protect the people we love, and the ways unconditional love can help us transform into the best versions of ourselves.

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Interested in meeting Vale, Danmar, and Chella? Read flash fiction pieces featuring these characters below:

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Rewind

A Broken Promise

A Rose and Its Thorn is a hilarious and heartwarming sci-fi fantasy novel that explores what it means to enter different seasons of your life, the importance of friendship in old age, and how wisdom is developed through a life well lived, and not by the wealth of information available at our fingertips.

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Thornard Mackelmoor and Rose Windgraven have had their adventures. After being apart for almost forty years (no thanks to the vampire king who took Rose's servitude in exchange for sparing Thornard's life) they've reunited. Now, they just want to spend their time in peace and quiet, getting to know each other again---Rose in her garden, and Thornard eating pastries on his front porch watching her work. 

But when the neighbors across the street get into trouble with a local gang of magical beings, Thornard can't help getting involved! Even though his knees don't bend like they used to and he can barely hear Rose when she's across the room. His aches and pains aren't a secret, but he's secretly been aching for a new adventure, and helping John and Gertie Forsythe's problem just might be the thrill he's been looking for.

Until the Forsythe's problem turns out to be bigger than any of them expected when Gertie mysteriously goes missing, along with all of the other human women in the town. 

Now, Thornard, Rose, and John must stick together and figure out a way to save the women before time runs out---or before Thornard's knees give out completely. Maybe he'll learn how to use one of those handheld computers John's always carrying around while he's at it. 

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Interested in meeting Rose and Thorngard? Read flash fiction pieces featuring these characters below:

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Croissants and Second Chances

Modern Fairytale

The Rose

Song of the Sun is a short story that is part of a larger series of stories about Molik Abedi, an 'Hibrainian Elite Defense Unit Captain who reluctantly returns home after a near-fatal crash left him stranded out on Lod-9 under the care of a wise elder being, Jin-T'sarin, whose health was diminished with every effort he made to bring Molik back to life.

 

Molik has one goal on 'Hibrain: get a life pack to take back to Jin-T'sarin, to the being he owes his life to. Unfortunately, his plans are swiftly thwarted when Azya Krah, the new High Priestess and Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Federation suddenly has a vision: Molik is the Song of the Sun, the savior of the people of not just 'Hibrain, but of all the planets under the harsh rule of the Federation. 

 

There are two problems: Molik doesn't want to be a savior, and now, the Prime Minister wants Molik's---and Azya's---heads on a platter.

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Read the short story here.

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Short stories in this series follow Molik Abedi as he adventures across the universe with Azya Krah and his faithful Qualqylian friend Bilul, fighting both his fate and the many eyes, ears, and hands of the Federation.