Hampton: 544 books

Three short stories exploring man's journey with and towards the machine. “Life is But a Dream” explores human intelligence and soul in a machine. “More Machine Than Human” explores the move towards Cyborgs and beyond. “An Arm and a Leg” explores what a society will give up to survive....

David Rheinbrücke has been different for all of his twenty-five years on this Earth. Even at birth, He was an FLK. That's medical slang for funny looking kid, used when they know something just not right. As he grew, he continued to look different. A throwback, people said many times, especially...

John had long ago found a philosophically neutral ground between his own christian upbringing and his chosen field of study; evolutionary biology. He had struggled for many years over the disparity between the Bible's explanations of the origins of life and the best theories derived from the collected...

"How bright her eyes had been." A solitary tear dripped from Mark Fields’ stoic chin onto the lifeless form below. He sighed heavily, his shoulders sagging as his strength flowed from him with his breath. His hand crept along the silky lining of the casket and fleetingly caressed each...

Moira stood unmoving on the highest prominence outside the cliff-side entrance to her cave home, a hundred long strides up the cliff in tier fifteen. She watched some of her friends as they leaped unfettered into the bright and clear air to hitch rides on the large broward leaves that drifted down...

Jon had never felt so utterly alone, so isolated. Tears blurred his vision as the absoluteness of that isolation finally became real to him. His fiancee had broken it off two hands of periods ago, telling him there was no point in continuing. He had made his choices. He had accepted the mission. After...

The fog ate the white sanded beach, a giant amoeba, undulating over the water and sand. The setting sun shone dimly through the its swirling mists and provided no warmth to offset the chill wind that blew across the sand. Huddled under his hood, Greg Pattersen jammed his balled fists deep into his...

Maxwell Borodin stumbled along, trying to coordinate his faltering steps with the swaying motion of the sidewalk. He didn't have time to ponder why it was moving. The entirety of his efforts were concentrated on protecting the half empty bottle of rotgut he hugged to his chest. He needed the...

Mary Katherine and her daughter, had just moved into her deceased husbands house on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. Starting the first night and now the second night, she had been awakened clawing her way up through layers of sleep, driven by the anguish and terror in her daughter's screams. When...

Aislin and Caitrin's birth, marked the onset of a time of great change, the endings of false paths, and the beginnings of new and true paths, as Destiny pressed forward with her revised prophesy for The Dragon Isles. Many would become witting or unwitting tools. All would be transformed, but none...

A 5000 word short story. From the chaos of the emergency room, a young mother, and amnesiac, is pulled back from death's door only to discover her lost childhood memories have been restored by the electric shock. A childhood like few others; filled with kings and queens, princesses, fairies, tragedy...

Abby and the Magic Key is a young adult magical romp through time and space with thirteen year old Abigail Stewart and her royal ancestor, Princess Elizabeth of Scotland. To mend their broken lives, these princesses, one lost to fear and privilege, the other lost to fear and neglect, find each other...

Rebecca has it all: great hair, good grades, steadfast friends, and loving adoptive parents. That is, until the first day of the seventh grade when she discovers two snow-white streaks in her chocolate brown hair running from her scalp to her waist. Her parents reluctantly reveal that she had been...

This is a 5000 word short story that introduces the world of The Dragon Isles through the eyes of Liadan, the most powerful seer of her time. Liadan had foreseen her abduction in a vision only moments before and she knew she had to allow this kidnapping to complete the trial destiny had set...