Bøger af Fredrick Hudgin

A novel about how ghosts share our lives and interact with us dailyDavid is a Green Beret medic. At least he was for thirty years until he retired and returned to his parents' home without a clue what to do with the rest of his life. While he is trying to figure out how to recover from the violence he'd faced in Afghanistan and Iraq, he meets a woman who shows him the way then disappears. As David rebuilds his parents' home and attempts to start an emergency care clinic in his rural town, he meets the woman's granddaughter. Together they figure out how to bring down the meth lab that has poisoned their rural town, overcome state licensing regulations preventing the clinic from opening, help their friend attempt to beat his cancer, and discover David's roots buried in an Indian sweat lodge. Ghosts abound in this story of love, betrayal, supernatural guides, and unfaithful parents. The good guys aren't entirely good. The bad guys aren't entirely bad. Nothing is what it seems at first glance in Chambersville as the book leads the reader on a merry Ghost Ride.

The aliens who gave humanity its death sentence are still not responding to our overtures for a negotiation. We keep trying to open communications with them but all we get back is silence. Russia tried to nuke them but all that happened was Moscow was sent into the sun. Even with the invention of an artificial uterus, the so-called Baby Machine, the Earth's population of humans has begun a steady decline that, unless something changes, will end in ninety-some years with the death of the last human being.The three graduate students who discovered wormholes, Lily Yuan, Kevin Langly, and Douglas Medder, have created successful lives for themselves. In the two years that have passed since Book One ended, all three of them finished their PhDs. Lily and Kevin began working on new, peaceful uses for wormhole technology. They exchange emails with Doug at least once a week.Doug is working at the Canadian Aerospace Research Centre as chief architect of a Rosy transportation infrastructure that, within Canada, will replace long-haul trucking, train cargo, and air cargo transportation with wormhole portals. Countries all over the world have begun asking Canada for help with setting up their own systems. A major new industry was created in Canada overnight: manufacturing the freight portal system and selling it to the world. Phase two will be to replace human long-distance transportation (airplanes, cars, buses, railroads) with wormhole portals.But wormholes and their close cousin, dark energy portals, have continued to be weaponized by the countries and terrorists of the world. Because wormhole attacks are so deadly and can happen with a five second warning, many countries have built huge automatic retaliation mechanisms that can respond to a wormhole attack instantly, without requiring permission from a head-of-state or even a general to begin the counterattack.And without children or a future, civilization begins to erode across the world. Violence and crime escalate. Law enforcement seems unable to stop its growth.This is how the story of The End of Children continues to unfold.

The little girl who greets Frank on A Rainy Night told him about her father and uncle who had not come home from Afghanistan. But there was more to the story than she said ... a lot more. Frank had already lost his wife and family. The girl's loss reached out to him until the men appeared.In Ashes on the Ocean, her husband of forty-three years has died. Suddenly she was free of his strict ways. She rebuilds her life, filling the void he left with bright happy things. But she still had one remaining obligation-to get his ashes to the ocean. The temptation was to repay his years of intolerance in kind, but a promise is a promise.Being Dad is about healing. How do you bury the memories along with your son when he comes home from the war with an honor guard instead of a bear hug?Susannah finds out that parallel universes really do exist and that the Green Grass isn't always quite so green on the other side of the fence.This collection of short stories are my favorite of the stories I have I written. Some are twisted. Some are fun. Some are sad and some are happy. Kind of like life. I hope you enjoy them.