1990. For the first time ever, new humans develop super-powers and an entire generation of meta-humans joins forces with the Triumvirate to form Operation Scimitar. While not nearly as powerful as the seemingly eternal members of the Triumvirate, these new heroes became the front line soldiers in a war against the supervillains who have replaced the Red Menace as the greatest threat to the American way of life.
2014: Gwendolyn Beckett was merely doing her patriotic duty, submitting herself to testing and training at CPI's Operation Scimitar Headquarters after her extraordinary power to melt metals with her mind manifested itself. That was the last thing she remembered, before she awoke bound and hooded, listening to a roaring crowd that is waiting to see her fight a fellow meta-human to the death in a gladiatorial arena. As Gwen battles to stay alive, a splinter faction within the U.S. government, led by a cryptic meta-human who calls himself Seether, is plotting her rescue because they believe that a secret is locked away in her mind. That secret could overturn everything that people thought they knew about meta-humans, could bring crimes to light that have gone long unpunished, and could shed light on a conspiracy millennia in the making. More importantly to Seether, that secret could answer the one question that has plagued him since he woke up off the coast of Nagasaki in 1945 with no memory and powers similar to the members of the Triumvirate: what the hell is he?
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Parliament of the Profane II: Fides Uberrima
In the second book of the Parliament of the Profane trilogy, Nate Greene, better known as Seether, has finally regained those memories lost after the nuclear explosion in Nagasaki during World War II and at last understands what he is. When the world was still without form and void, he went by the name Azrael, and he served Heaven as the Angel of Vengeance and the instrument of God's Wrath. For six thousand years he had been confined to Earth, a punishment for taking up arms against the Throne during the Morning Star's rebellion, and for six thousand years, he has fought evil in whatever form it has taken.
With the machinations of Preston Ward and the Triumvirate temporarily thwarted, and many meta-humans loyal to the sinister CPI Corporation slain, there will still be no time for Seether and his allies to celebrate their victory. Ward and the two surviving members of the Triumvirate are still on the loose, and a new organization called Fides Uberrima, a cult capable of wielding an incredible power, have thrown their support behind Ward's endgame, an endgame that remains frustratingly elusive to Seether and his companions.
As Ward reaches the culmination of his life's endeavors and Fides Uberrima preaches the coming of the apocalypse, Seether will need to reach back into his distant memories to truly understand the grave peril the world now faces and find a way to defeat the ultimate threat to humanity.
With the machinations of Preston Ward and the Triumvirate temporarily thwarted, and many meta-humans loyal to the sinister CPI Corporation slain, there will still be no time for Seether and his allies to celebrate their victory. Ward and the two surviving members of the Triumvirate are still on the loose, and a new organization called Fides Uberrima, a cult capable of wielding an incredible power, have thrown their support behind Ward's endgame, an endgame that remains frustratingly elusive to Seether and his companions.
As Ward reaches the culmination of his life's endeavors and Fides Uberrima preaches the coming of the apocalypse, Seether will need to reach back into his distant memories to truly understand the grave peril the world now faces.
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Parliament of the Profane III: Gloria Deo
Coming Soon!
The gates of Pandaemonium have been opened and shadow daemons have been unleashed upon the world. Preston Ward’s goal of eradicating humanity is approaching fruition, and humanity’s only hope for salvation- Azrael and his meta-human Nephilim cohorts- have been captured, killed or scattered to the wind.
Ward’s soul, now possessing the Serpent- the shadow drake responsible for man’s original sin, has a final weapon to unleash against those who fight to save humanity. Azrael’s oldest opponent, responsible for the angel of death’s own fall from grace, will be set free from his prison at last to ensure the destruction of life on Earth.
111 Souls
Infinite Universe (Finite Ways to Make a Living) Book 1
A decade has passed since the Gael conquest of Earth and her allies, and Captain Matthew Jennings has a ship and a good crew: a Cajun first mate that fought with him in the Gael War and cooks like an angel, a doctor from Scotland who picked up his trade while serving a life sentence in prison, and an engineer from Pasqua, a being whose entire race seemed to be born engineers. Jennings’s only problem is that they are flat broke. The universe might be infinite, but the number of ways to make a living was not.
After their last bounty hunting job went south, the crew of the Melody Tryst finds themselves with no money, no fuel, no food, and several pesky warrants currently outstanding for their arrest. So when the leader of the Gael occupation force offers Jennings a life line in the form of a plain and simple bounty hunting job, he reluctantly accepts, even if it means working for his former enemy.
The job is a simple bounty hunt, collecting a radical college student named Michelle Williams, who stood accused of treason, terrorism, and being a member of the Terran Resistance. As much as Jennings despised the Gael, he held an even greater hatred in his heart for the Resistance. As far as he was concerned, they were a bunch of pretend soldiers who had not bothered to pick up a weapon in the Gael War and now bombed civilian targets in the hopes of hitting the occasional Gael or human collaborators.
Not everything is as it seems.
Michelle Williams has been on the run for weeks after seeing her boyfriend get murdered, and has been forced to dodge multiple assassination attempts, escape police custody, and deal with gangsters that would sell her into slavery. Most importantly, she had no idea why any of this is happening to her. The closest she has ever come to actually committing a crime is when she and some of her college friends staged a sit-in in her college’s administrative building as a demonstration against the Gael’s occupation of Earth.
What neither Matthew Jennings nor Michelle Williams know is that the Gael Overseer Pahhal has a list of one hundred eleven humans- one hundred eleven humans that the Gael desperately need, the mere prospect of their capture having driven his people to go to war with Earth. One hundred and ten of those humans have been captured- Michelle Williams is number one hundred eleven.
As Jennings and his crew expend every resource to find Williams, they find themselves on the wrong side of a diminutive Russian bounty hunter whose viciousness is immeasurable, an interstellar crime lord who enjoys trafficking in the flesh trade, a coldblooded assassin who freelances for the Resistance, and the humans of the Terran Gael Force, an army made of those who chose to collaborate with the Gael. All of whom are hell bent on killing Matthew Jennings and claiming Michelle Williams for themselves.
Surrounded by fire on all sides, Captain Jennings begins to realize that the plain and simple bounty is a hell of a lot more complicated than he could have ever imagined and that he is the center of plans that have been ten thousand years in the making. All in a day’s work though for the captain of the Melody Tryst.
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Sanguine Starscapes
A Collection of Short Stories
Humanity has left Earth to truly explore the stars, but what of those who remain in the shadows, feasting upon humanity's blood? Would they not follow their prey into the depths of space?
Sanguine Starscapes is a collection of four short stories, each taking the vampiric myth into the stars. Humanity may transcend the bounds of their home planet, may colonize worlds, and may create an idyllic future, but they cannot escape that which is immortal. And the immortal cannot escape the call of blood.
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Reality and Oth
er Falsehoods
A Collection of Short Stories
Five science fiction/ fantasy short stories from author Justin Bohardt focusing on characters who find the reality of their worlds unraveling before their eyes.
All of us here, dragging ourselves through existence, are held captive by a singular filament: reality. What if that tiny thread were to snap and the universe came crashing down around us? Here are five stories from author Justin Bohardt about those who are caught in flux, shredding holes in the fabric of reality.
Science. Religion. Drugs. Death. Insanity. Five portals into realms of chaos through which our characters must travel as they cling to humor, faith, rage, righteousness and music. All the while, they are immune to the anchor we take for granted every day: the anchor of reality.
"We're destroying ourselves. We have done this! This idea of progress. We've gone to the stars, we've unlimited power sources. we've explained all the mysteries of the universe through physics and mathematics. If we are so smart, why is it all ending?" - Priest Pius.
This compilation is an e-book re-release of Justin Bohardt's first independently published short story collection.
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Tales from an Altered Verse
An Anthology of Short Stories
An anthology encompassing the collections Sanguine Starscapes and Reality and Other Falsehoods, here are nine short stories from author Justin Bohardt spanning a range of years (1996-2015), genres (science fiction, horror, and fantasy) and areas (vampires, dystopian futures, drug abuse, insanity, ghosts, religion, and the future). The common thread through all of these stories is the skewed perception of reality. Not everything we see can be explained, and just because we do not see something does not mean that it is not real. Most importantly, the reality of the world around us, which we take for granted, is infinitely fragile. Only the slightest impetus can cause everything to come crashing down around us and unravel the universe as we know it.
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Twenty-six Suicides
A Collection of Poetry
Pain. Grief. Sacrifice. Honor. Necessity. Love. Every suicide has its reason. Every suicide has its story.
In this poetry collection, Justin Bohardt explores the reasons and the rationales, the pathos and the suffering, the rituals and the rites, and the necessity and the love that goes into one making a decision to end their own existence.
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Solar Tempests
A Collection of Poetry
From attempts to project humanity’s flaws and prejudices into a futuristic landscape to the intricacies and hopeful humor of alien massage parlors, there is still one defining theme in Justin Bohardt's latest collection of poems. Whether it is the colonization of different worlds, death in outer space, the future of those photophobic covenant-breakers, or the nightmares the tear your soul asunder, this exploration contained in these poems is purely ethereal, looking to whatever lies beyond our time, our minds and our lives.
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We’re All Gaijin on Mars
A Collection of Poetry
The capturing of nature's essence in seventeen precisely arranged syllables is moved from its classical roots and into the future as the nature of the stars, space exploration, alien contact, and the future of humanity beyond Earth is examined in over one hundred minimalist poems.
We're All Gaijin on Mars is a collection of over one hundred Japanese-style minimalist poems set primarily in science fiction and fantasy settings. This first volume of Justin Bohardt's collected poetry contains works almost exclusively composed in the haiku format, although it also includes senryu, tanka, and haibun, as well as some free verse.
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Beyond the Rim
An Anthology of Poetry
This collection of poetry from Justin Bohardt is actually the combination of two separate collections that had previously been released exclusively as E-books under the titles Solar Tempests and We’re All Gaijin on Mars. Although stylistically quite different, the two collections both reflect the same genre of speculative poetry- works in the science-fiction, fantasy and (occasionally) horror categories.
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