Books and Stories

Links to books that I have stories in. Just click the cover. All available for free in Kindle Unlimited, to purchase on Kindle, or (my personal favorite) dead tree slices, bound and tattooed with ink.

If you prefer the personal touch, message me. I have a limited stock, and can get you a personalized copy directly.

Plasma Pulp! Interplanetary evil. Ray guns. Swords. Good guys who are good; bad guys who are bad; and beautiful damsels.

Unfortunately—as things go—the interplanetary evil empire swords and rayguns kind of pulp fell out of favor, and it’s hard to find anyone writing it these days.. Until Now. These tales will delight, astound, and weird you out, which is what they're supposed to do. Sit back and embrace the strange!

Giant Squeeing Robots!

Just because they're cute doesn’t mean they can’t be dangerous. Imagine tamagotchis gone bad, giant robots with the fashion sense and self-control of a toddler. Or maybe these robots just love you and want to scoop you up and hug you and squeeze you and call you George. Have fun! Play! And remember, these robots can go hypersonic.

Space Cowboys 6: Fission Chips!

The story lines in this anthology run the gamut, from planetside, to open space, to Mars and beyond:

An old cowboy and his dog teach the new kid how to handle rustlers. Cowboys defend their ranch and others against predators and thieves. Good guys and gals vs. the bad guys while they learn about horses. ‘Ranching’ creatures come among the asteroids, lousy neighbors, and rustlers. Frontier sheriffs step up and solve a crime before things go badly for everyone in town. ‘Rodeo’ takes on a whole new meaning with LBJ in an alternate history. Learning occurs on a cattle drive, with a surprise ending. With rustlers in space, technology is in play, with the equivalent of Rangers. A cowboy and his girl take on train robbers to save the passengers. An old cowboy comes out of retirement for one more cattle drive on Mars.
(from the introduction by J.L. Curtis)

Giant Stompin’ Robots!

You like your mecha with a side of alien invasions? It’s in here. Illicit gangs trying to fix heavy mecha demolition derbies? Done. Brave pilots standing between shrieking chaos and everything they hold dear? Good reader, if there was a Heroism Buffet, this anthology would be the restaurant your friends were rolling you out of every weekend. So plop yourself down at your favorite table, pour yourself a stiff one of sake (or soda if you’re the same age as the plucky teenage hero with bright hair) and prepare to be entertained by Giant...Stompin’...Robots!

Wyrd West II: Cursed Canyon!

What tales are you fixin' to encounter here? You may encounter an inexperienced, in-over-his-head County Wizard trying to settle a dispute between landowners who seem to have escalated to using black magic in their feud. Or you might find a preacher and hooker fighting to save their town from some cult-like evil. Shapeshifters and werewolves may appear in one or t'other.

On the edges of civilization, here is where humanity encounters the wyrd in these tales of the Old West! The dangers are far more than the battle with nature--ride along with these authors into the strangest places, where the stories of the bold and the adventurous can claim to have survived the unknown.

All Will Burn: At All Cost

Whether in a murky forest, the void of space, or under the bed, the innocent are often in peril. Hazards abound in the outer darkness and only a parent stands between it and their children. Here are tales of parents wiling to endure whatever perils they must to ensure the safety of their kids, at all costs.

Moggie Noir!

The question remains whether you should tuck into this volume in a comfy chair for a bit of adventure. Well, if you like cats, there’s more than a little of something you love in the pages or pixels herein because, instead of a bland all-two-legger cast, these stories feature felines as central or pivotal characters. If you are a fan of noir fiction, you’ll enjoy how these authors have explored this genre and maybe stretched the bounds of what you find familiar. Some are set in the 1930s, some are present day, and some are who-knows-when.

After all, who better than a cat might convey the contradictions of a ruthless killer enrobed in the most exquisite package of sumptuous fur with glittering emerald eyes? No one, see? Cats are the ultimate expression of the noir aesthetic, and we hope you will agree, but fasten your seatbelts: it’s going to be a bumpy read.

Goblin Market!

Wander the aisles of the goblin marketplace, where anything can be bought or sold, and where the bargains struck can amuse or captivate!

"I wandered into this collection with the innocent expectation of finding…something familiar to my imagination. Of course, I was wrong (it is one of my skills).

You see, it’s not. It’s a doorway into other people’s imaginations. Thankfully, they’ve been curated by people that took out the ones that you really didn’t want to look into. That’s not to say that what they chose would not take you very, very far away into very strange places, very fast.
The goblin market of ideas is, as this book represents, a place full to bursting, and the exotic brims with the strange allure of worlds not quite seen. They are tempting, exciting, and some a little disturbing. Its visitors bring back stories that will amuse, titillate, and in some cases, remain with you."
Dave Freer
The Goblin Market in Dimension 2046845
May 2024

Space Cowboys 5: Cattle Drive

When every inch of our planet has been explored, from the depths of the sea to the top of every mountain, Space and her untamed frontiers will still be beckoning us, calling us to go beyond the farthest star and see what there is to see.

Old Sam Clemens once said that History don’t repeat itself, but it do rhyme. In Space, we got a vast, unexplored, mysterious, and dangerous frontier. We’ll have herds of some kind to watch over and to drive to market. Most times we’ll be far and beyond the reach of “civilization,” with their myriad of laws, lawyers, and politicians. Those tough enough to carve out a living will need the independent, rugged spirit of the cowboy to survive. There will be leeches and villains, for sure, heroes and anti-heroes, and some folks just trying to eke out a living. If we choose to tell their tales draped in the lingo and trappings of the cowboy, that’s just another rhyme, with form following the function.

If you’re new to the Space Cowboy series, you’re in for a treat. These ten stories, from ten different authors, are where you’ll find Explorers charting new frontiers in space, Trailhands and Drovers watching over their cattle on alien plains, and Lawdogs of every stripe meting out frontier justice, and doing their best to make sure scallywags with evil intent don’t win in the end. These cowboys and cowgirls don’t back down from a challenge. It’s not in their nature.
(From the Introduction written by Rick Cutler)