List of Brent’s stories available at Barnes and Noble (Nook).
A Ragman’s Vow
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(Read now) Dan, the creator of a comic series featuring a dark superhero, has never recovered from the death of his young son and the loss of his wife, she blaming him for their son’s death. But when Dan sees her in the company of a known drug dealer, real life and fantasy merge as he tries to rescue her. |
Digital Rights
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(Read now) Izzy’s new job aboard a solar station orbiting Earth becomes more complicated when she begins receiving cryptic messages from a ghost. This story was a winner in the “L Ron Hubbard presents the Writers of the Future” contest, and first appeared in Writers of the Future Volume XXVI. |
From the Sea
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(Read now) A fisherman realizes that his adult son has learned all the wrong lessons from him after they save a drowning woman from the sea. |
His Island
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(Read now) A young mother who has been estranged from her father for many years is forced to confront her past when a strange island resurfaces off the coast of Iceland and the two of them are assigned to the research team studying it. |
John’s List
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(Read now) John Seven, a clone, is scouring deep space to rescue his creator’s lover from a race of brutal aliens. It falls to him and his crew of fellow clones to finish what their originals started. In the final battle between human and alien John will be forced to choose between following his duty or following his heart. |
Lazy Designer
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(Read now) Practical advice on starting a career in the video game industry and improving your design skills. This is your opportunity to learn from the lead designer of such commercial and critically successful video games as Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age: Origins. Discover how the author started his career, the pitfalls he encountered and how he overcame them. Written by an industry veteran with over ten years experience working for a major games studio. |
The End of the Road
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(Read now) Wanderer is the last surviving soldier of a war fought far in our future and he travels across a ruined world wearing a suit of armor made by his alien foes. Today is not a day for fighting however as Wanderer goes in search of companionship. And finds a witch. (Made the long list for a British Science Fiction Association award in 2006). |
The Monastery
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(Read now) A monk questions his place in the monastery after discovering a mysterious young woman hidden away in the attic of the scriptorium. |
The Prophet
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(Read this story for free!) This is a story about the early years of the post apocalyptic hero Wanderer and tells of his search for his missing wife. He has not yet found his battlesuit and his foes in this tale are his fellow humans, the ones, like him, who have survived the end of days. |
The Tale of Lady Spite
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(Read now) The young and arrogant daughter of a small town minister discovers a legend that, if decoded, promises her the wealth she covets to escape village life. But she finds instead that there is always more than one side to every story. |