Every month, I try to rotate a couple of titles in and out of the Vasicek Free Library. This month, I’m republishing my old short story “Prison of Dreams,” and setting my novella In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight to free. Check them out!
Prison of Dreams: A Short Story
A boy, a girl, and a starship gone mad.
As the colony mission's historian, Hazel thought the voyage would be as uneventful for her as going to sleep and waking up on the new, alien world. She was wrong.
It's unclear whether the ship's AI is crazy or merely lonely, but for whatever reason, it is convinced that it needs to feed on her dreams. But the colony mission is still centuries from arrival, and Hazel will live out her natural life and die alone if she cannot convince the ship to put her back into cryosleep.
There are alternatives, however. If the ship manages to awaken the right person for her, none of them ever have to be lonely again.
In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil!
When Captain Victor Andrecek and his crew of down-and-out smugglers respond to a deep space distress call, what they find shocks them to their very core. The victim is dead, his EVA suit nailed to a cross and launched on the head of a repurposed missile, with the words of an ancient scripture burned on a plaque at his feet. And he is not the only one.
The madman behind the murders is a privateer known as Zedekiah Wight, and the reward on his head is more than enough to tempt Andrecek and his struggling crew. With it, they can finally get back on their feet again—not to mention, rid the galaxy of a very dangerous man.
But Andrecek can't help but wonder: what was Zedekiah's reason for crucifying those men? With the showdown rapidly approaching, the answer might make the difference between being in the right, or being dead.
