14 Ergebnisse.

In the winter of 1888, Dana Reynolds has no reason to believe in anything, until he runs afoul of Wovoka. Dana doesn't believe in Truth. Telling the truth was what lost him his job back at the Chronicle in San Francisco. Well, that and drinking a little too much. In Nevada he's learning that Indian agents can be as crooked as politicians. Just asking a few too many questions around here earned him a beating and a cracked rib. Now he was suppos...

The only path to safety is through the most dangerous place in this world. Men pursue Benjamin for his wild talent, which he doesn't understand. His path will lead him to imprisonment, to a gay biker chick, a gypsy, and a certified lunatic. Among his allies is a woman from another world. His enemy wants his lunch money. Now come on a journey to the Chapel Perilous.

Here it is, my newest tale, The Driver. It concerns a streetcar driver by name of Georg Vintner. Georg was born in Norway, came to the U.S. at a young age and went to sea. Somehow he washed ashore in San Francisco in 1877. He has given up the sea and now drives a tram. These days most streetcars are pulled by horses. Georg's job is not an easy one. He works a 16 hour shift, six days a week. The horses don't have it much better, though they o...

Sometimes the only path to sanity is through madness. San Francisco, 1859. Joshua Norton, desperate to survive, sees madness overtaking America. He has lost his fortune and believes the country is losing its mind. In a flash of insight, he finds the answer to both problems. He will become Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. He will issue proclamations to make things right. Now imagine young Marina. She wants only to sing. Bec...

Nathaniel had his reasons for making his journey to Rhyolite. Rhyolite was the greatest boom town in the west, with a population of ten thousand and growing fast. Nathaniel hoped to find what had been taken from him-taken by the snallygaster, that old legend from the back hills of Maryland. Snallygaster was that four legged flying snake that would snatch away whatever you most valued when you turned your back. It took away Annabelle, the love ...

Sometimes real sanity is found only in a mad house. San Francisco, 1879. Georg Vintner, A.K.A the Driver, has returned after two years at sea only to discover that the woman he loves is still confined to a lunatic asylum. Only by rescuing her, can he discover if he wants a life with her. Only then can he learn the truth. Wealthy investor, Nathan Foster Casco, must keep that woman locked away. She is Genevieve Sutliff, confessed murderer, and...

Hyram and Lisbeth have been living in San Francisco since it was called Yerba Buena. They have been here long enough to meet some strange and sometimes desperate folks. Hyram likes telling their stories. He hopes you will like reading them. The tales are short enough to read while waiting for your horse-drawn streetcar. The first one is about a starving boy who turned up one morning looking for work.

San Francisco, 1880. Jeremy Fantom dislikes his job as reporter for The Bulletin. He dreams of joining a circus or going to sea. That all changes when he meets Worrell the inventor. Worrell has a machine that will run forever without fuel. Or so he claims. Jeremy soon finds himself involved in city politics, crime, swindling and riots. Then the inventor's daughter is kidnapped. Jeremy embarks on a mission to rescue her and see justice done. ...

Waters of Doubt, third tale in the DiPaolo trilogy, a novella. Theodore Roosevelt has invited Martino DiPaolo to an exciting vacation in the Brazilian rain forest. The trip nearly proves the last of both men, as well as the rest of the expedition. They have chosen to follow the course of an unmapped river, the River de Duvidas, River of Doubt. But DiPaolo is shown an ancient, secret world. Meanwhile at home, DiPaolo's arch enemy Kwanyin Luk is...

Sometimes a magic lute is more than a magic lute. Minions of an evil ogre have stolen Rymer the troubadour's lute. The lute's name is Ariella. Rymer needs her for his livelihood. He thinks of Ariella as Her, not It. In fact he believes his lute is his wife. He sets off to find the ogre and recover Ariella. He will encounter Swine Girl, who will help him. But he first must pass by the Black Duke and Castle Grey, where Swine Girl's brother is he...

You are the only one who saw a president assassinated. That makes you the expert."¿ Having failed to protect McKinley, Martino DiPaolo, hesitates to accept the assignment to safeguard his successor. Elsewhere, John Flammang Schrank believes that McKinley's ghost urged him to kill Roosevelt. That sworn commitment of a madman persuades DiPaolo to once again risk his own life to lead a president's security detail. Meanwhile, DiPaolo is haunted...

They say Bradshaw's crazy just because he talks to his cat and eats roadkill. They say that's why he was kicked out of MIT. He knows better, but he's not saying. Now he's come across a Government secret, a super weapon. Who can he trust to share it with? There are all these agents running around looking for it. To make matters worse a beautiful woman turns up seeking revenge. Now even the Sheriff is worried and there are rumors the President h...

San Francisco, 1906. Broderick McRae, reporter for the Morning Call, has discovered he's two people. A different person inhabits his mind and body. The Other is a dead Italian soldier named Abramo. He tells McRae they are both on a mission to save the city. Their task involves a murdered opera singer and a killer on the loose. There's also Enrico Caruso, who's coming to town. McRae doesn't even like opera.Worse yet, McRae's dear wife Julianna ...

December, 1906. For the third time, McRae finds himself conversing with a disembodied spirit. The first time, before the San Francisco Quake, it was a dead Italian soldier. The second, A.Q. (After Quake), she was a live woman lying in a coma thousands of miles distant. Now McRae, reporter for the San Francisco Call, gets sent to cover a story not Quake related. There has been a mining disaster in Bakersfield. Five men are dead, one still livin...