Short Stories
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While Owen much prefers to write novels, he also sometimes writes short stories. You can find them alongside his novels in various store fronts, for free.
Short of Tyme
Short of Tyme is a series of short stories by Owen that you can find alongside his novels, in the same online stores. If you’re on the fence about buying his books, then why not try something free that’s a little shorter?
The individual Ebooks are free and always will be, but eventually, Owen will put together a collection of them, allowing you to buy them in print.
Please Note: Amazon has a policy regarding minimum prices, so these stories may initially be listed on their site at 99 cents. If you want them for free, you can try another store (Smashwords is an excellent choice). Alternatively, if you insist on downloading through Amazon, you can ask them to price match other stores.
Emergent Consequences
The painter of the universe, known as Life, just wanted to fulfill her reason for being, by creating a universe full of beautiful wonders and living things, but her twin brother, Death, exists solely to destroy her work, leading to an intractable argument about whose work should prevail.
Eventually, Life partially wins the argument and is allowed to make a universe without seeing it immediately destroyed, but she doesn’t know well enough to leave things be, leading to emergent consequences as she continually interferes, adding new creations to fix the problems she created, only to see everything balloon out of control, while Death laughs at everything she does…
Emergent Consequences is a short tale that takes a light hearted view of the follies of human nature, as seen through the lens of a pair of extremely fallible creators, whose universe fortunately isn’t our own, holding up the mirror of satire, so we can laugh at ourselves.
Come read about their journey and hopefully learn a little about human nature along the way.
She Goes to Summer Camp
Camp Sapphire Friendship, a summer camp for teens, was the last place the Hunter wanted to go, but she’d made a vow to protect humanity from demons, no matter where they appeared and in 1986, her team of demon-slaying experts is called on to investigate. However, to make things even worse, the Hunter’s team leader sends her into the camp as an undercover operative, under the guise of a regular teen, despite the fact that the half-demon girl being old enough to be the grandmother of the kids at camp.She’s soon caught up in the daily minutiae of camp, learning a few new things along the way, while followed around like a puppy by a new “friend”, a motor-mouthed girl that never shuts up. On the very first day, she also acquires a trio of teenage foes in the form of some valley-girl sisters from Los Angeles, who take every opportunity to insult and plays pranks on her.
However, despite the innocent look of the place, danger lurks around every corner, because the owner of the camp, Miss Macie Weber, is an untrained witch, whose unknowing, haywire magic threatens to kill everyone by summoning powerful and vengeful nature spirits, on top of the demons already lurking among the humans at camp!
Will the Hunter find and slay the the demons or will the nature spirits take offense at her mere presence, because she’s had the Jungle Spirit stuck inside her head since 1972?
Download today and find out!
This story uses characters from the Ashen Blades series and is also included in She Goes to War.