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The human species is evolving. The first of the successors to the old species have had to make some hard choices, and trouble between the old and the new is coming. What will the successors choose to do when threats arise from more than one direction? There’s the issue of the old alien enemy that wants to destroy them and Earth. The only hope of eliminating that menace lies with Bob, who lives on Pond, a world in a different dimension. Some are trying to eliminate them, not understanding that this won’t stop the genetic changes in humans that began thousands of years ago. Others want to...

Because of biological warfare thousands of years ago, Earth was nearly destroyed and its current inhabitants are struggling to survive. Unbeknown to them, they are being aided by outside forces whose aim is to repair the damage done to the planet and restore it to a viable state. One such restorer, bearing the title of Sower, is among those tasked with performing a necessary function that will rebuild the diminished population. This is done by - well, let’s just say that he gets the job done. He is young, smart, resilient, and finds the existing main food staples of rats and cockroaches ...

Raven is not human. It is, in fact, a member of a species of gentle giants with aspects of both male and female. When it finds a hurt and bedraggled human female lying in the woods, it didn’t know if it could help her but felt it had to try. It did not bargain on falling in love. A Boucher's World novelette.

He awakens with a task to perform, which, as always, is to repair the damage inflicted upon the world without interfering in the affairs of man. He sets about determining what he must restore in this instance and discovers a lilac-hued woman dancing within his forest clearing. He is not human but for the first time in his existence, he is drawn to one in a way that confounds him. In due course, though it is dangerous, he finds he must intervene on her behalf.

Evelyn, Connor, and Valerie, friends bound together by a psychic connection since before they were born, mourn the loss of their friend and soulmate, Shane. They are left with the task of telling his parents that he won’t be coming home. They also have to tell them that Anotrothe, the imaginary friend from their childhood, was not make-believe and is the reason Shane is gone. It isn’t easy - or believable.Facing skepticism of their tale of being the next step in the evolution of the human race, they reveal the differences that prove it. Then, the world learns of them and goes into an ...

Shane, Evelyn, Connor, and Valerie. Non-siblings bound together since conception by a connection only they have. They also share an invisible friend. But not all invisible friends are necessarily imaginary. Consider Anotrothe. Friend and gentle guardian with powerful psychic abilities, he is invisible to everyone except them until they are twelve, when he appears and becomes a teacher at their school. One day, he tells them that the connection they share gives them the capacity to learn things no other humans can, and promises to teach them when they are old enough to learn. When they are ...

Jade is fourteen years old and excited about finally being old enough to move out on her own. She’s got her help lined up, a moving van rented which her friend and room-mate, Tally, a big silver Cat, will be driving since Jade’s driving skills leave a lot to be desired. She’s all packed and ready to go. Apparently, though, you just can’t have a moving day without something going wrong. Go figure.

Having always been overindulged by its four parents, Dove was a unique Elwist: spoiled. It was used to getting what it wanted, and when it decided to befriend Swallow, it had an ulterior motive, and it did not involve love or taking vows...

Abandoned on an alien planet, Second must learn to co-exist with a group of primitives in order to survive. A tale of the acceptance of differences, and of unconditional love.

There are many tales from the period known as the Change in Boucher's World history when Humans began being born with psychic abilities a thousand years ago. This is the story of one family’s survival from near the beginning of that time. Randa takes her family and leaves her home in the foothills of the mountains, fleeing marauders who would kill her children for being different. They are rescued by the Elwists and taken to a village set up for the safety of the new Humans. Born too early to be one of the changed people, will Randa be able to bridge the gap between the old ways and the ...

What will Randa do when her vow-mate goes fishing and doesn't return? She lives in an isolated area with her two small children and with their provider missing, she is the only one who can keep them safe. Will she be able to handle the task? Will her mate return? What will happen when they meet the beings they have been told are demons? Change can be hard and it takes flexibility to be able to meet all the challenges that are involved. A story of birth, death, and other changes.

One bright fall morning, Lyssa Brunner’s life takes a turn for the weird. Up until then, she is an ordinary, sixteen-year-old, slightly nerdy girl with a secret crush on the captain of the football team. After that day, she finds that, not only are things not always as they seem but that they are sometimes something that could never even have been imagined. She’d looked forward to a lot of “firsts”: first date, first kiss, etc. - the usual things a teenaged girl imagines. What she gets is a revelation about her family and herself that take her on a rollercoaster ride into ...

Red has planted her very first vegetable garden. She is tending it when she makes a surprising discovery: fish are growing on her tomatoes. With the help of friends that are… let’s just say they are as unusual as Red, she sets out to learn why this has happened - and why flocks of birds are trying to steal the fish. (Set in the universe of Cady and Sam, a short story series about werewolves and other paranormals.)

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth...A short story of time travel, and faith.

Jack Warslow is a small-time thief. What happens the night he breaks into a big house in an affluent neighborhood has him desperately wishing he’d never seen the house or picked up the small cat that belongs to the homeowner. He thought he was ready for anything but he learns just how wrong he is and that there is no such thing as something for nothing. There is always a price to pay. A short story from the Dark Realm.

Appearances can be deceiving. He’s not what he seems to be. Neither is she. They represent opposing factions in an engagement on which a lot is riding. He has always been a wily fighter for his team and has many victories under his belt. She has certain attributes that led her Captain to specifically choose her for the contest. But there is a loophole and winning is not a given - for either participant.

The Humans and Elwists of Boucher’s World have undergone a major transformation that has changed them into... something else. They’ve been out of contact with their home-worlds for two thousand years but recently they’ve learned that an expedition will soon be arriving from Earth. The captain of the lead ship, Timothy Moore, and his crew are not aware that there’s a high-tech society or anyone other than Humans on Boucher’s World. They also don’t believe in psychic abilities. What will happen when they confront a situation for which they don’t even come close to being prepared...

Jade Lowry, the co-discoverer of the way out of the continent-covering Dome of Boucher’s World, was kidnapped but managed to escape with the help of her soul-mate, Kendis Rost, and the doomed precog, S’tella. During the event, she and Kendis discover inexplicable differences about themselves as they go to the aid of their friends who are fighting with the minions of her kidnapper. Once she and Kendis get back to her home in Village Twelve, what does Lark, the Elwist Healer, and Sparrow, its precog vow-mate, have to tell them that explains why they appear to be transforming into ...

Boucher’s World, where every sentient being is endowed with psychic abilities. But, having these abilities hasn’t been any help in getting them out of a dome that covers their entire continent, effectively keeping them imprisoned. No one knows who - or what - erected the dome. Or why. It appeared a year after Earthlings joined another race, the Elwists, on the planet in the Epsilon Eridani star system. Its presence effectively cut both races off from their home worlds, and there has been no contact for over two thousand years. Jade Lowry is a descendant of the original settlers. So is ...

Shaniqua Jones is writing her autobiography for posterity. She smokes like the proverbial smokestack, and was asked by a friend when and why she began smoking. This excerpt is her explanation.