M. E Purfield

Within the racially conflicted streets of 1963 New York, psychic and artist Carmella Noto tries to maneuver a working-class life and recover from her experience with the heinous cannibal Albert Pesce. But her past only brings her to the attention of a secret group of psychics intent on solving difficult murders. And they want Carmella's help to find a degenerate murdering single, young black women. Continuing to enlighten the complex lives of...

Even though Shizuko (Surly Girly) is a healer, she couldn't save her sister and parents. One of a kind and wanted by corporate powers, she lives in hiding and makes friends with kids her own age through the internet. When a respiratory virus spreads through out the world and threatens to kill her best online friend Layla, Shizuko and her guardian Tru pack up the van and drive out to help her. It will not be easy. Racial tensions from the disease run...

On a distant planet, private investigator Kelly Kharma wallows in a pit of depression. The love of her life left her and society grows worse. She keeps moving forward, though. To keep her sanity and fixing what she can of society. When she's asked to recover a stolen artifact and protect a dancer from a stalker, she discovers that moving forward might not be the best option. Old enemies and love still won't let her go. Bodies drop and questions...

Hidden in a Brooklyn warehouse, Dr. Van Vogt and his team prepare to run a secret experiment for a desperate organization. When the Subject, a pre-teen girl, arrives and the experiments begin, the results disappoint. Van Vogt knows the Subject can produce. He needs time. The organization has no time to give and the Subject has little time to live. A tense and disturbing sci-fi short story about the morals of science ripped from the Tenebrous Chronicles....

In the crumbling Central District, private investigator Kelly Kharma can't afford a cup of coffee. Watching burning buildings out her window highlights her days until Pinback Boiler walks into her office. Breaking a custody agreement, Boiler's wife kidnapped their daughter Gwendolyn. He needs Kharma to find her and bring her back. Kharma follows Gwendolyn's trail into the industrial South District, where underground abortionists and criminals mix...

When it hits, it will be a monster. While on the run towards a fresh start in life, Regina picks up a teen-aged girl off the bitter winter turnpike. The strange girl seems harmless aside from her jerky movements, weird way of talking, and talent with wild animals. The girl soon pales in comparison when news about the speeding asteroid the size of Texas heading to Earth strikes the media. An asteroid the teen-aged girl knows all about before anyone....

Kelly Kharma. A private investigator on a distant developing planet. She helps the lower-class of a new society find justice and peace. As dangerous as it is, she loves it and keeps finding work. Find a killer for a corporation, transport an important child for the underground, or figure out what makes children kill for no reason. Kharma always pushes herself for the victims. Even if it means risking her sanity and ending her new love. A sci-fi...

Deep in the wooded county of Ashland, Kentucky, Bella tries to grind her car back to life. Once again, she'll be late for work. When an amnesiac boy walks out of the dark woods, she finds that he's in worse shape than her despite bringing her car back to life.In return, Bella helps him out. Soon she will be the one who needs help. A thrilling dark fantasy short story from the Tenebrous Chronicles that will charge your heart and turn your knuckles...

In the near future where the government deals with a rising illegal inter-planetary alien problem, Officer Rau messes up a bust that takes the life of citizens and his partner. All's not lost for Rau. He could join a new program that makes officers effective and objective. Whether he likes it or not. Even if it might not work. A sci-fi crime short story about a man tangled inside and out.

It speeds toward Earth. Intent of destruction. Or so they believe. With only a few more days until the violent apocalypse, people in the city jump off their roofs to control their fate. Teenage Isaac seems to be handling the end days well unlike his deteriorating mother. If only Isaac's mom could be like Leo the child-like building janitor. Leo believes they'll all be fine. Or maybe Leo's insane like the rest of them. Maybe Isaac needs to jump off...