Bugs Fiction

When Sally Samuelson was eight years old, her golden boy brother Ellis went missing the summer he graduated high school. Ellis finally turned up at the bucolic Bug Hollow, a last gasp of the beautiful Northern California counterculture in the seventies. He had found joy in the communal life there, but died in a freak accident weeks later. From that point, the world of the Samuelsons never spins on the same axis, especially after Julia, Ellis’s girlfriend from Bug Hollow, shows up pregnant on their doorstep.

Carrie is one tough mother. It’s a normal day at the Dripping Springs Superstore. Shoppers look at merchandise while keeping their kids under control. Customers wait in the check-out lines, some chatting, others silently bored. Everything is about to change. Terrorists rush in with guns blazing, killing all who try to escape, rounding up the rest to hold hostage. Carrie, pregnant mother with a four-year-old at home, escapes into a stockroom closet. She calls her husband Jason, an Austin PD officer. Jason and his partner find a raging massacre in the parking lot. They attack, badly ...

America is under attack! Bug Out! is the story of Frank and Jane, on the run from California in their Motorhome. In Bug Out! Part 7, Frank, Jane, and the group had to flee from Colorado, barely getting out alive. Bug Out! Part 8 follows our group as they take over an abandoned RV Park in Kansas. Kansas is sealed off, but our friends get through. It's safe, but will that last? Why was the RV Park abandoned? What blood-curdling secrets will be found there? More new characters appear. They are dangerous, but to whom? If the authorities and the press find out about the dark secrets of the RV ...

California is on the edge of disaster. The banks are nearing collapse. Fear rises. The State Government can't cover its pension payments. Talking heads argue, while retirees wonder when their next check is coming. Unrest grows. There's murder in the streets. Gangs terrorize the population in the big cities - Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sacramento. It's not just gangs, though. Somebody else is stirring things up. Who? Why are they doing it? People flee if they're able. The military tries to shore up its bases in San Diego. Unrest continues to build. Local law enforcement can't...

America is under attack! Bug Out! is the story of Frank and Jane, on the run from California in their Motorhome. In Bug Out! Part 8, Frank, Jane, and the group make a terrifying discovery in their Kansas RV Park. Bug Out! Part 9 follows our group as they cope with the new danger they've found at the RV Park, while keeping the enemy at bay. The group partners with a dangerous trio. These new friends can help them defeat the dark forces coming at them, but at what cost? Kansas is still safe, but the enemy is on the move, taking over sections of Denver. The shadowy owner of their RV Park has ...

What would you do if you were no longer safe in your neighborhood? Frank and Jane have had it. Every night the looting gets closer to their home, while the authorities do nothing but ask for calm. Life has become terrifying. Frank pulls a gun on looters running up his driveway. The thugs flee. Frank knows they’ll be back. The last thing Jane wants to do is live in their motorhome, but Frank talks her into it. The open road is dangerous. Staying in LA is worse. They barely get out of town alive, as California explodes behind them. Eastbound I-10 is flooded with others trying to escape, as ...

Ruthless bankers are breathing down their necks, vengeful warlords are promising to pursue them across the galaxy, and now a mysterious new client wants Rade and his Argonauts to escort her to a frontier planet. Problem is, the new client won't reveal her cargo. It's probably something illegal. Well, Rade needs the money, so a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. They arrive to find the frontier colony strangely deserted. When the shit hits the fan and the Argonauts face a possible alien infestation, it's time to pull out the big guns.

America is under attack! Bug Out! is the story of Frank and Jane, on the run from California in their Motor Home. In Bug Out! Part 9, Our friends take the fight to the enemy, while preparing to defend themselves against the evil former owners of the Kansas RV Park. Bug Out! Part 10 follows our group as they zero in on the enemy headquarters, while keeping darker enemies at bay. A former friend is now working with an evil serial killer. They stage a murder spree across three states as they plan for their ultimate attack in Kansas. The enemy is trying to cope with the new technology that ...

America is under attack! Bug Out! is the story of Frank and Jane, on the run from California in their Motorhome. In Bug Out! Part 4, Frank and Jane struggle to survive in Utah. Enemies surround them! Bug Out! Part 5 gets more intense! The Motorhome Park in Utah is no longer safe. Our friends have to flee, but where can they go? Where is it safe for them? The Army has their hands full. They can't protect them. Our friends are on their own! The RV Park has become an armed camp, but will it be enough? Will our friends have to get back into their Motorhomes and flee for their lives? Maybe they ...

'What are we to do about the bees?' asks the ant to the butterfly, in this gentle eco tale. For the first time in ant’s memory, butterfly has no words of comfort. A newly hatched butterfly thinks he has an answer, but it will require many wings and great cooperation. An uplifting story that brings new meaning to the phrase 'the butterfly effect'.

The society is dangerously polarized. Violent mobs hit the streets. Some whispered a civil war was coming. Then the bombs went off. Survivors recruited freedom-loving citizens to armed resistance, in Manhattan, Boston, and Valley Forge. The globalist enemy knows who to target… the hunt is on, but the resistance is wily, and supplied with technology from a billionaire industrialist. The action is fast and furious on Manhattan, as the UN Peacekeepers fight to take control of the city, the resistance taking them on at every turn. The enemy has new allies coming. Can the resistance handle ...

America is under attack! Bug Out! Texas is the story of Texas Patriots who fight the invaders. In the Bug Out! Texas Book 2, Texas prepares for battle as a new Republic. Bug Out! Texas Book 3 - Republic in Peril continues the action, adventure, and romance behind the sealed borders of Texas Texas is on her own now. She must fight foreign invaders while protecting herself against an out-of-control Federal Government. Islamist Fighters flood into Texas by the hundreds of thousands. How are they getting there? Cities large and small are attacked by Islamic Terrorists with tanks and infantry. ...

The society is dangerously polarized. Violent mobs hit the streets. Some whispered a civil war was coming. Then the bombs went off. Survivors recruited people to armed resistance, in Manhattan, Boston, and Valley Forge. The globalist enemy knows who to target. The hunt is on, but the resistance is wily, and supplied with technology from a billionaire industrialist. John Clancy’s books are gaining traction. He’s now a target. So is his brother-in-law Craig, who has a budding career as a political columnist. And up in Boston, the resistance base has been discovered. Will they get away in ...

An alien conspiracy to enslave the human-populated planets... Two merc rivals out for each other’s blood... A military pilot locked in strange symbiosis with an alien Zikri… A simple mission to The Dim Zone to collect alien plant samples ends in disaster. Why would CEO Mathias of Cyber Corp on Phallanor finance such a mission? Mercenary Yul Vrean and badass space rogue Regers find out…the hard way. Deadly space battles, bio-mechanical fusion, killer aliens...a touch of the bizarre and fantastic…a rare feast to intrigue fans of Alien and The Matrix... Books contained in this series: ...

The grand-prize winner of a writing contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, "The Gold-Bug" was one of Poe's most popular stories during his lifetime. Similar to his ratiocination tales - early versions of what we now call detective fiction - "The Gold-Bug" is full of mystery and adventure and includes a cryptogram, invisible ink, a scarab-like bug, and pirate treasure.

When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, and cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to play in the Underland's uncertain future. Gregor wants no part of it, until he realizes it's the only way to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance.

War. It's as inevitable as breathing. Sometimes there are breaths between conflicts, short reprieves, and then those reprieves are shattered as war breaks out. As sons and daughters are sent out to die. As the true evils in the universe are revealed. Matthew Campbell, a young fisherman from a backwater world, finds himself thrown into the combine of war. He's tossed straight to the frontlines without any traditional military training, all he has to fall back on are the lessons from the life he is leaving. Join him as he fights to save a planet he has never been to. Read The Battle for ...

A little magic can take you a long way. After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends - Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, and more. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the great adventure begins!

The territory of Veelox has achieved perfect harmony. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon arrives on this territory in pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, but all is peaceful on Veelox - because it's deserted. The inhabitants have discovered a way to enter their own personal dream worlds, where they can be whomever they want, wherever they want. Their bodies lie in stasis while their minds escape to the dream realm.

Bees, ants, spiders, flies—all of the bugs—monitor two things: the health of planet Earth, and the planet's most influential inhabitants, the humans. Should humanity show signs of irreversibly killing Earth, the bugs will exterminate everyone. They'll then start the human experiment over with a fresh batch of people, thanks to the DNA collected by mosquitoes.