Michael Gardner
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Central Districts
Location:
Hastings
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Henry & Isa
Henry Dove is travelling to Riverside for a holiday. As he boards the train that will take him there, he finds an abandoned four-year-old girl. The train continues onward to Riverside, but Henry embarks on a very different journey to the one he was expecting to take. Henry & Isa is the second in the Outside Inside series of short motivational stories exploring aspects of the human condition. Sometimes we need an unexpected nudge to steer us in the right direction even when we think we know where we’re going.
Iron William and the Carpenter's Tears
The year is 1543. Iron William Kidd, a former English spy, is knee-deep in trouble. After a mission goes gravely wrong, he is left with badly crippled hands. Held to ransom by the Church, he also has to find the mythical Tears of Christ. The price of failure is his head. However, every country has agents seeking this ancient prize, as The Tears hold a secret that will change the world forever. Unlocking the mystery of The Tears becomes a perilous race against time where there can be only one victor.
Iron William and the Lost Prophecy
When the renowned seer Nostredame prophesies a new emperor will rise to conquer Europe, the rulers of every nation grow nervous. King Henry VIII of England dispatches his two most trusted secret servants to recover the prophecy from French hands, hoping to unlock its secrets. As Iron William Kidd and his partner, Tom Flint, hunt for the prophecy, they discover the French are keeping it locked in a formidable vault, complete with deadly and cunning traps designed by Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci.
Rescue One
When a routine mission takes an unexpected turn for the worse, Mission Commander Swain and his team are forced to embark on an urgent journey to treat a pandemic on a distant planet undergoing human colonization. Racing across the galaxy, they discover the pandemic vaccine is more than it appears, containing experimental technology that could start a galactic conflict. As the crisis mounts, Rescue One and her crew confront their hardest mission yet, against opponents the medical ship wasn’t designed to face.
Breaking Point
Brilliant scientist Antonio Baros and his team of space engineers invent an engine that can theoretically propel a spaceship faster-than-light, but it is yet to be tested. Fearful of losing the glory for his work, Antonio plots to fly the prototype spaceship himself, with disastrous results. Alone in space, with little hope of survival, he must face his inner demons or reach his breaking point. Breaking Point is the prequel to the novel Rescue One.
The Bunker
When the world goes to hell, Amos wakes up in an underground bunker, injured and without memories of the incident. He has a solitary companion called Ray. While they wait to see if anyone will come to their rescue, Amos begins to wonder if Ray is his savior or his captor. The Bunker is the third in the Outside Inside series of short motivational stories exploring aspects of the human condition. Sometimes, just when we think we know where we’re going, everything changes.
Writer's Block
Ralph Jeremiah Johnson Token is the world’s most unremarkable man. When a freak rupture in space-time opens in his work cubicle, he embarks on a most remarkable and unexpected journey, involving his favorite book The Lord of the Rings. Writer’s Block is the first in the Outside Inside series of short motivational stories exploring aspects of the human condition. Sometimes, we need an unscheduled hole in the space-time continuum to help us get life back on track.
Valley of the Shadow
The Hand of the Khryseoi Trilogy In the distant past, an army of men and women were called upon to defend the earth from a great evil: Eurynomos, the God of Death. They were granted many gifts, including immortality and named The Khryseoi, Spirits of the Golden Age. This is their story. Act One: Valley of the Shadow The Great War between the Khryseoi and Eurynomos has been won but at a heavy cost. Phylasso, leader of the Khryseoi, has sacrificed himself to bring the war to an end. As time passes, Raven, a Khryseoi bowman, discovers Eurynomos’s servants still roaming the earth, murdering the Khryseoi from the shadows. With Phylasso gone, Raven faces his greatest challenge, to reunite the Khryseoi and stop Eurynomos’s dark spirits before they destroy all life forever.
The End and Other Stories
The End and Other Stories features three lighthearted short stories about life, love, pizza, a dead author and a psychopathic cat. The stories are The End, The Middle and The Start... in that order, because life doesn’t always go to plan.
Romance in Four Seasons
Romance in Four Seasons is a collection of unconventional contemporary romance stories ranging from lighthearted to bittersweet. Each is set in a different season, but all are about people looking for love, and the curious hand Destiny plays in the outcome, for better or worse. The collection features all four stories in the series: Food for Love, Missing the Bus, Ideal Match, The Big Four-O and a bonus story The Start.
Alexander Rollins Must Die
Alexander Rollins knows he is going to die and soon. He's aware of this fact because the writer of this short story has provided him with one hell of an authorial spoiler. But Rollins is a New York Times Bestselling author, and he isn't willing to let himself be written out of existence without a fight.
Space Plumber
Duncan Stool is a plumber. The Stool family have always been plumbers. But in the twenty third century, plumbers aren’t quite what they used to be, as automated supercomputers now run the show. Down on his luck and with bills to pay, Duncan takes the only job available and joins the Space Corps, where he will boldly go where no plumber has gone before... and let’s face it, plumbers have been in some pretty stinky places.
Goddammit, Larry!
After falling asleep on a train, Larry walks home through an unfamiliar neighbourhood. Hoping to take a shortcut down an alleyway, he stumbles across a glitch in reality. It can only mean one thing: the world is not what he understood it to be.