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Ted’s Shorts – and no, before you ask, this has nothing to do with my choice of summer wardrobe, although I am partial to a comfy pair in the summer, nor is it a reference to my modest height of 5’6” when standing proudly in socks. Instead, within these pages you’ll find a collection of twenty-one short stories – my “shorts” of a rather more literary kind. 

She has always known she was different — shy, thoughtful, and torn between her Plebeian roots and whispers of an ancient secret that her family refuses to speak of. But when an unexpected tragedy thrusts her into the dangerous political world of the Early Roman Republic, she faces truths that will alter the course of her life — and Rome's history — forever.

Deirdre, a sea wolf, is being chased by a mercyless foe who will use everything within his grasp to break her—mentally and physically. A dark tale, intense and pushing the limits of morality. Will Deirdre overcome the challenges defying her?

In days of old there is a tale of a TOWER to the sky. Built sometime after the flood and Noah. The earth now repopulated by a people speaking just one tongue and one language. That is until one, a great wonder of the known world is skillfully being constructed out some mesa plateau. Red clay bricks are fired in vast bricks ovens . Tar is used to join them together. Large wooden planks and beams are cut from large timber trees. Thousands upon Thousands of men fee and slave work together in perfect harmony and communicate with each easily. The power of team work and mankind's ability to create and build masterfully an amazing tower reaching the clouds in the sky. All under the reign of one very vain ruler, King Nimrod. I will be GOD! I will reign from the clouds. Until one day, The LORD Himself walks to earth and visits the tower build site. The Lord marvels at man's ability to solve complex building issues and the ability to communicate as one. A creative solution is decided upon by the Lord. For if man can do this there in nothing impossible man can not do. A rushing wind comes from Heaven! Suddenly, one tongue becomes many tongues and languages. Immediately, No one at the build site can talk nor understand each other. WHAT HAPPENS NOW??? Please read on dear reader!

In the magical realm of Eldoria, darkness has long lurked in the shadowed corners of the land, but the Shattered Vale has grown into a threat unlike any the world has ever faced. The Vale, corrupted by ancient dark magic, spawns shadow creatures and spreads chaos, threatening to engulf the entire kingdom.

Rise of the Magi

There was a mystery at the end of Ruby and Ryan’s garden. They moved into the old house around five years ago. The house was on the edge of a village called Southwater. The garden was a mess; the previous owners had moved to the island of Malta to enjoy their retirement in the sun and the house sat empty for over a year. It doesn’t take long for nature to take over and rule again, it looked like a rainforest.

A young boy finds the love of his life but the ongoing struggle between the left and right was making it impossible.

In the frozen wastelands of Cyberia, where machines and flesh have fused into something neither living nor dead, a lone wanderer named Toska searches for meaning in a world that refuses to let him die. Haunted by fragmented memories and dreams that feel too human to be his own, he drifts through a landscape of blood-stained snow, rusting titans, and chimeric horrors borne from a tormented imagination.

Maria Arkwright, aka Mia is pulled into a new world of danger, political maneuvering and secrets as a routine checkup with her father uncovers secrets that have been kept long hidden from the rest of the world. Now she is torn between two worlds, taking part in a long ancient war she never knew existed for the sake of mankind