LA RUBIA

How far will Francisca go to protect her colony of Mexican refugees from pirates roving the asteroid belt?

PASE DE UN DÍA

Chalo could teleport to the U.S. every day and work for a better life for his family—if he kept his day pass.

MIKE FINK GOES TO BIG BEND

Characters from American, Mexican, and Native folklore meet in west Texas in the 21st century.

THE THIRTIETH AMENDMENT

Gonzalo had to pass the test of English fluency to prove himself a U.S. citizen. So did others willing to cheat.

AFFECTIVE DISORDER

Texas PI Albert Jimenez found more than the usual when he investigated an heiress' "suicide."

Hans returned from the Great War, haunted. Not only by the horrors of the trenches, but haunted by visions of a more terrifying war to come. Would the parties and parades of Carnival 1919 offer him love and hope? Or doom him and his country to the devastation he foresaw?

Captain Khavanov's orders: occupy an old fortress on the road to Sibiu, to secure the Red Army's supply line. In the fortress lived a frail old man. What about him drew the interest of a commissar from division headquarters? And why did Khavanov's men disappear one by one?

No lakes, no forests, no pygmy triceratops and stegosaurs roaming the countryside. No, honest, niña, I wouldn’t lie to you. Back at the turn of the century, Big Bend was the dustiest corner of Texas. How did it change? Well...

Characters from American, Mexican, and Native folklore meet in this whimsical short story.

Fair exchange offers prosperity to the creative and industrious, both human and elemental... and unearned riches to the ambitious and greedy.

Two courtiers ask Keladon, retired battlemage and the king's bastard half-brother, to impregnate the queen. His sense of duty to the kingdom sends him to her bedchamber. But he mus...

Another day at the office for Ursula. Until bad boy Ranger, her first boyfriend, called. He hadn’t talked to her in years.

Because he was dead.

He told an unbelievable story. About making things right. And a buried fortune at a place they both knew well.

A hoax. Obviously. Though who else ever called her bodacious?

Was that why she checked satellite images of the place, and shopped for a shovel and a metal detector?

And if she dug up a buried fortune, what then?