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About... The Death of Innocence
In 1993, thirteen-year-old Trace Williams finds himself racing down a dark alleyway. His heart was about to burst through his chest. Someone was chasing him.
His attacker catches him, and he lifts him into the air. From somewhere, he hears his mother's voice call out, "Trace! Wake up."
But he could not awaken. He was trapped in the darkness of a dream. But it was not a dream, not really. Niorun, the Goddess of Dreams has taken his consciousness from his body and projected it into the body of a fourteen-year-old girl.
Trace felt the knife, and he writhed in pain.
Finally, his mother awakens him, but not before he felt the pain of being murdered by an evil man.
Niorun watched from above, and she asked Verdandi, the Goddess of Fate, why it was necessary for the boy to suffer the death of another. Verdandi replied that it was the boy's fate, for something was planned that was more important than The Death of His Innocence.
About... The Viking King and His Sword
The year is 1505, and K'reig the Invincible sits on his warhorse at the edge of what is soon to be a bloody battlefield on the northwestern tip of the British Isles. Behind him is his army, a small band of enslaved villagers from the last settlement he raided. In front was the next town he intended to conquer with the plan to enslave the men who survived the battle. His goal was to build an army and continue his conquest.
The age of the Viking Gods has passed, but K'reig's followers are convinced he is one of the Gods, the brother of Thor. They have witnessed his miraculous recovery from mortal wounds.
In truth, K'reig is not a God. Although he does have powers, he is an imposter. He has played on their superstitions.
The Viking God Hel, the Goddess of Death, is not happy. And neither is Verdandi who is the Goddess of Fate.
Together, Death and Fate empower a Seer, and he arrives at the village before the battle. The Seer has an advantage to stop the imposter K'reig, but K'reig is a formidable foe.
And the battle begins.
The Viking King is the second short story in The Stranger series. The first story is The Incident.
About... The Devil's Lair
The year is 1865, the date is May 2. Lee has surrendered, and Lincoln has been assassinated. The Civil War is over.
But not for Darnell Jeffries and the men he is riding with. They are determined to continue the fight. They intend to emulate Quantrill's Raiders, and they ride into central Kentucky, robbing banks and continuing the fight.
On this day, Death is watching, following.
The band of outlaw rebels run into a Union garrison, and Darnell and three of his friends survive and escape. But then not really.
The men encounter a Stranger, and for reasons they are unable to explain, they are terrified of this one individual. They flee into a deep ravine, straight into The Devil's Lair.
A dark entity that resides in the ravine is more dangerous than any battle they had encountered.
The Devil's Lair is the third story in The Stranger series.
The Gunslinger
Dillon Adams is your ordinary high school senior with all the normal angst of a teenage boy growing up in the nineties in Alcoy, Colorado. Well, not quite. He has just transferred to the school after he and his mother had to relocate back to America after his father was killed by an IED in Afghanistan.
While dealing with the death of his father and his mother desperately trying to find a job, he incurs the wrath of Jonathan Perkins, the most popular superstar jock in the school. Dillon had the audacity to talk with Julie, Johnathan’s ex-girlfriend. After being sucker punched by Johnathan, Dillon awakens to find himself in a corral with a bucking bronco, but he was not Dillon. His name was Andrew…Andrew Taylor.
Moments later, he was in a hospital bed, and his mother, Mrs. Adams, was concerned about what had happened.
Dillon embarks upon a journey to resolve the issues with Johnathan, while simultaneously flitting back and forth between the 1990’s and the 1870’s as he embodies Andrew Taylor. The two lives run a parallel track.
Will Dillon learn from the past to save his future with Julie, the girl of his dreams?”