Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Detroit, Mike Rabin continually hopes for a better future. Wanting to be a free spirit, Mike drops out of Cass Tech's art program in the eleventh grade. But in his neighborhood, he is more likely to end up as...
In the late nineteenth century Austro-Hungarian Empire, two Jewish astronomy professors work tirelessly to unearth new academic research for their chosen field. But their participation in adultery, deception, and murder will follow them throughout ti...
Boris Bethelheim, the wily Deputy Director of our defense research agency, was interested in the perfect biological weapon. One that could destroy an enemy’s infrastructure, but in the end could be brought under control. He realized that his former...
How did I get myself into this mess? All I ever wanted to be was an artist, Rodger Cohen thought while he waited for his trial to begin. Maybe it was naïveté or just misplaced understanding as to what an artist really does, but one thing is for cer...
Max's Fools is about an African-American engineer, obsessed with contacting his mother who passed when Max was only seven years old. It was two days before Max's 77th birthday and his children were throwing him a party at his daughter's house when...
The Silk Road ran crooked out of China through the Middle East and eventually into Europe. From China the road led to the Torugart Pass in Kyrgyzstan and into Naryn. It was there that the three lives, Mei Lam, Howard Penterrose and Ivan Ivanovich ...
In 1977, Hagit’s mother, Makeda, at 17, made Aliyah with her family to Kiryat Malachi (City of Angels) from Ethiopia, where she met Hagit’s father, Adam Rosenbloom. In 1983, Adam and Makeda were married and left Israel for another City of Angels,...
By the spring of 2018, Angus MacTavish had flunked out of Glasgow Caledonian University. Deciding to move to America, he ended up in Flint, Michigan, a city he heard of that had a water crisis around four years earlier. Flint seemed like a place Angu...
Nostalgious is a story about a family of mathematicians who spend their lives devoted to Artificial Intelligence (AI), and how that impacted them for over fifty years. Nostalgious also refers to remembering life's' occasions, but instead of with joy ...
Was it murder or suicide? That question had hounded Detective Raymond Wojconski for three years. The implications for the deceased's family were momentous since his wife and young daughter would suffer financial hardship if it was suicide. But they w...
In 2030, two young research scientists were made aware of a new deadly outbreak called, Diminished Encephalon Fatality (DEF). Their tech company asked them to investigate the ways non-biologics could impact brain size ultimately killing the host. The...
Betsy looked at Bonnie (Watkins preferred to be called Bonnie) with some excitement regarding Bonnie's newly discovered powers of clairvoyance. Bonnie told Betsy it was as if someone, or something, was living inside her body. After watching what Bonn...