Novels (unpublished)

Short Stories

If I get the stories e-published, I will add links to the zines.

Springfield, America

A travel article about a suburb in North America during the 22nd century.

 

Ophelia

Ophelia accepts an invitation from a man online who says he can help her with her mysterious medical problem.  When she meets him and his friends, they say that they are lycanthropes and that they think she might be one too. 

 

The Specialist (flash)

The army uses a woman with unusual powers to interrogate a prisoner.

 

Melder’s Drink

A man drinks a reality-altering substance as the final test of his training to become a Melder; one with power to meld reality.  He is irrevocably changed by the ordeal.

 

Coyote and the Nanobots

A woman uses banned nanobots to destroy Bermuda grass, with disastrous results.

 

Verge

An encounter inside the quarantine clinic for a strange venereal disease; a disease which causes incontrollable lust in its victims

 

Oysters (flash)

The not-so-mousy bride of a famous mad scientist decides to retaliate for years of abuse.

 

Fossils (flash)

An atheist comes to terms with his wife’s death by going on a shopping trip with his sister.

 

Voice Like a Cello

A woman, haunted by the voices of the dead, has escaped to a quiet desert town.  She returns to France to see her father again, and learns something about facing her fears.

 

Bear Country

A retelling of an old Chinese folk tale.

 

Stay tuned for links to sample chapters. 

Catherine Cheek

Art and Writing

Novels and Short Stories

Seeing Things

78,000 word contemporary fantasy novel about a woman named Kit who inherits a magic bindi from her famous witch uncle.  Kit has to use this bindi’s powers to find out which of her uncle’s enemies is trying to kill her.

 

Living Impaired

Kit undertakes a quest to save her boyfriend from a curse.  She begins to lose her heart to the vampire who agrees to help her, and eventually loses more than that when her quest takes her to the Realm of the Faerie.

 

Poisoned Sacrifice

Kit takes a job as Dayrunner for the Guild Leader of the Vampires, only to find that the job description involves dodging assassination attempts.  Meanwhile, her love life is in shambles as her current boyfriend drinks too much blood and her ex-boyfriend still has a lien on her heart. 

 

Faerie Killer

Morales, a vampire investigator undergoing a midlife crisis, attempts to solve a series of brutal murders involving faeries.  The investigation goes awry because Kit (the human assigned to help him) and the faeries have deep secrets, and they aren’t talking.

 

Changing Places

Someone is killing Seabingen’s lycanthropes and it’s up to Councilman Albers of the Vampire Guild to find out who.  Albers has her own agenda, and wants to pin the murders on the local crime ring, but soon she realizes that hiding the truth may doom them all.

 

Familiar Battles

Barbara, a white witch with an incurable disease, decides to kill the familiar of a god in order to live forever.  Raven, the young woman who happens to be the familiar, learns of this plan and tries to stop her. 

 

Plague of Trees

Trees mysteriously appear overnight in front of Kit’s house.  Her search to find out what’s going on reveals strange parallels in Arizona, where rogue vampires are getting away with murder.

 

The Warrior and Her Empress

A coming of age story in which a young woman strives to find the destiny in wait for her, a destiny which will alter the course of her country’s future.