What could the aliens want with his father? Bharkli flees to his mother's planet to prepare him to fight the aliens. Meeting the orphan Sylvane as a fellow Watcher, they seek to protect Earth from invasion and takeover by the aliens. As Sylvane speeds to planet Ghames to reveal the alien's plans and gain help for the Earth, she is met with a mysterious man who knows her from a life she does not recall. Will she be able to save Earth and become the mature goddess that the mystery man claims she is?
A frantic call from his daughter puts Harry in harm's way. BAM! He's dead but doesn't know it. He comes to a lake, where a she-captain blows in on a storm, and they sail the choppy seas of the afterlife, harrowed by a mix of monsters, both human and not.
Five award winning sci-fi short stories. In the Garden of Mistress Bloom won First Place in Science Fiction in 2021, in Writer's Digest's self-published ebook category.
