Here's what I've written:
Novels
F6 - My first attempt at a novel. A motley crew of storm chasers called F6 try to deploy a container full of sensors into an F5 tornado. But disaster strikes when a tornado outbreak hits Arkansas and Mississippi, and the quintet of chasers soon find themselves being the chased. Long since completed. T for violence and language.
Dead of Night - A rogue doctor in 1937 Berlin has been using orphans for grisly medical experiments. However, one experiment performed a teenage girl has disastrous results for both the doctor and Germany. Within days, the city of Berlin is faced with a major epidemic, and various people, including a British spy assigned to find a Nazi code machine, a young Jewish apprentice watchmaker, a German field marshal, the Chancellor Hitler and his Cabinet, a Jewish teenage girl, and an American stewardess, among others, must fight their way out of Germany, for the Third Reich soon finds themselves falling to hordes of the living dead. Completed. T for gore, violence, and some language.
Transfer - They came from a distant galaxy, bent on intergalactic expansion and colonization for the Karzarthi Empire. They want to take over the Earth, and create a new, more advanced society. Their technology is astounding, their starships are large enough to affect Earth's oceanic tides, their weapons can turn humans into dust. And now Michael Sanders, a college student in Kansas, has been given an opportunity to have a front-row seat for the entire war. Completed. T for violence, language, and drug use.
Novellas/Short Stories
The 420 Blight - In Humboldt County, California, a mysterious blight develops and begins killing cannabis plants. It spreads like wildfire, rendering marijuana extinct within months. This disaster, combined with the 2008 election of an insane fundamentalist president, and several major terrorist attacks lead the United States into a whole new era of terror. The political, sociological, economic, and environmental effects of the 420 Blight will be far-reaching indeed. Completed. T for graphic violence, language, and drug use.
Legal Limit - After losing her husband and daughter to a drunk driver, Judy Jones starts to hunt down and kill drunk drivers. Can two small-town detectives stop her? And if they can stop her, will they? Completed. T for violence and language.
Chatterbox - Brian Fullford, a.k.a. Fiver is a 30-year-old loser living with his mother in Las Vegas, and a regular on the Chatterbox message boards. One day, a poster named Ulysses shows up, and begins to predict various historic events. After gaining a track record for precognition, Brian decides to determine the nature of Ulysses. Can he figure it out, and if he can, will he live to tell Chatterbox about it? Completed. T for language.
Flashback - It began with a firefight between North Korea and the surrounding nations. It ended as World War III and the beginning of the end of humanity. But a world-famous rapper named Jiggy-Fly must fly a Learjet 35A to the last remaining beacon of civilization: New York City. Completed. T for violence and language.
Hazardous to your Health - (Sequel to Legal Limit) The two detectives have become world famous after the trial of Judy Jones. Now they must face a new threat, a militant anti-smoking group that has decided to take the debate to a new level - terrorism. But even in law enforcement, things aren't always what they seem. Completed. T for violence and language.
Salaam, Salaam - In the Sudanese province of Darfur, a massive genocide is taking place. When over 100 people are killed in the latest massacre there, the President of the United States comes up with a novel and yet horrific final solution to the Darfur genocide problem. Rated T for violence. Completed
Ragehealer - A world-famous neurosurgeon suspects a teenage boy, Paul Whitlow, of having a vastly powerful ability. But can he persuade him to do the impossible before Paul decides to do the unthinkable? Rated T for language and violence. Completed.
The Animals - A group of patrons at an island restaurant in the Mississippi River find themselves facing a world gone mad. Alligators and bears are cooperating to attack humans, fire ants are sneaking in to bite and sting, and sharks and dolphins are swimming up rivers to destroy boats and bridges. The animals have come to a horrific realization and now want just one thing: The death of all humans. Rated T for violence and language. In progress.
Anthologies
Flashback: A Collection of Short Stories - Just that. A collection of 19 short stories I wrote over the course of several months. Four of them have been rewritten and posted as separate novellas.
Coming Soon
Prussic Acid - Andrzej Kaminski is a Holocaust survivor and history professor at a major university in northeastern Ohio. When he meets two students, one a bisexual party animal, the other a conservative Jew, he discovers their involvement in the plot of a sinister scientist who is determined to do whatever it takes to build the Heartfire, a machine that will change the world forever. For Andrzej, he must stop this mad scientist and come to terms with the fact that the past cannot be changed, regardless of how much one wishes otherwise. A novella.
Crown the Creation - The Museum for Creation Science in Gilead, Tennessee has just opened its doors. A month after it opens, a mysterious break-in occurs in the Isle of Man home of Alan Telles, an evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist. After the break-in, Alan discovers a plot by a crime lord to hold a major heist at the Creationist museum. Now he must go to Tennessee, join forces with a former NYPD detective and the curator of the museum, and stop what could be one of the largest robberies in history. A novella.
About the Author
My name is Nick, and that's all I'll reveal name-wise. I live in a small town in southern Ohio. I'm 21 years old. My hobbies are reading, writing (duh), laying on my butt doing nothing, playing Grand Theft Auto, and cooking. I read a wide range of stuff, everything from Stephen King and Michael Crichton to James Joyce and Ralph Ellison. As you can tell, my writing is influenced more by the former two than the latter. (I only wish I could do modernist literature.)
I've been writing stuff since I was 9. Though most of the stuff I wrote then is embarrassing, I have improved greatly, and I one day hope to publish something.
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