It started with a dream. In it, John Earl Stark solved the problem of a ghost he met. Or did he? It was a dream, after all. The next day he meets two women who visit his cabin, arriving out of the blue, literally. (Well, one arrived with pitched black darkness which filled his cabin and made her cough.) These two have an offer for Stark. All he really wanted was to enjoy the small cabin and solitude so he could write his detective stories. These...

Things were going well, until we got arrested. By our own security. No lawyer, no rights read, even our own boss turned on us. Because now we were being studied like the very people we were studying before. Or trying to. You see, we couldn't find any trace of those people, except for faint traces of biological material that were old enough to be historical. Everyone was starting to think they were some sort of urban legend. Until we went on a...

The story continues, as two young girls find their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story...Barely escaping discovery by soldiers from a nearby dukedom, Sal and Jude's dad starts training them to survive in the forest. While gathering herbs in a clearing, Sal and Jude find they can communicate to the animals. But find something else, their mother's ghost can appear to them. They can see and hear her voice in their...

Rose still doesn't know why she, survived the accident and everyone else was dead. It was horrible. And, she hasn't been able to cry since. Even at the graveyard where she was now. And then, she looked over a few rows and saw a guy standing in front of a grave marker of his own. He looked too sad for someone that good looking. She came over to see if she could console him, help him somehow. His name was Tom, and he had the most amazing eyes she'd...

Born between worlds, Silvie fell in love with Earth when she first visited it. She just didn't like the culture, the politics, the noise. So she decided to remake it the way she wanted it. Improve it. Civilize it. Regardless of who thought themselves in power. Because they didn't know real power. Silvie did. And had to prove it to several races who had tried to extinguish hers. Saving her own life was nothing new. Compassion for others was. Only...

I'd been caught in a cross-fire. And just got saved from bleeding out. Now my shape-shifting was on hold until I healed. But I was stuck in human shape, having to re-learn the human experience. I don't know when I first appeared on Earth. Before recorded time somewhere. And for the last few centuries or so, I'd been happy as a library cat. But then I got bored, and started helping out with simple missions. Good thing they got to me in time on...

Tesseracts fold time and space. I inherited the ability to both find and control them. Unlimited access to all universes. Sort of. Yea, freaky. I know too well how freaky. So, I spent my life on the move, through many times, and many spaces. Forgetting where and when I'd been, wasn't an option. My salvation was mastering the trick of retracing my path. To find my original home, to find the love I'd lived so long without. It wasn't just missing...

I knew exactly why I was still here. To haunt whoever had pushed me overboard. My only problem was finding them. And, if they weren't still alive, they had relatives. Meanwhile, I kept amused by haunting the ship's passengers and crew. And, the cruise line didn't have a problem with it. Their "haunted cruises" were a big hit. Full capacity for this old boat and its evening dinner cruises out beyond the harbor. "Misstep Mary" they called me. Even...

I'd been left out here, alone. By an oil-burning lamp. In the cold, uncaring desert. It was my only comfort until dawn. Just dawn started bringing the earliest glimmer of what I could see with my human eyes, I woke to some snuffling sound near my head. Opening my eyes, not relishing the hot day coming, I saw the nose of an animal near my face. "Rise, little one." I sat up. And, saw eye-to-eye with a female coyote. She was not young. Scars crisscrossed...

Two scientists broke time - trying to travel in it. If they weren't so cute, I don't think I'd be as forgiving. Still, they have no clue what they just invented. In these days of overnight express delivery, they could make a fortune. And the same device could deliver ticking bombs to any government building or office building anywhere. Instantaneously. You'd think these scientists would have learned something after the Manhattan Project....