Jack of Harts

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by on January 19, 2024 at 12:02 am
Posted In: Diaries

We found hyperspace in 2105 and the Great Space Race began. Alliances, nations, corporations, and religions reached out for the stars and humanity spread beyond the Solar System. We learned the answer to one of the oldest questions of all time in 2205. Are we alone? They brought medicines with them that nearly wiped out diseases, and extended the human lifespan into the centuries. They helped us study advanced technologies, and we expanded our colonies hundreds of lightyears from Earth. It was a golden age that many thought would never end.

Jack grew up in a world at peace, his only interests, partying and girls. But then an alien sneak attack killed millions of Americans, and wiped out almost everything and everybody Jack knew. He volunteered to serve and kick the alien scum back to the other side of the galaxy. But the Marines wanted more than people looking for revenge, and cybernetic partners demanded a far higher commitment. If Jack wanted to earn his commission as a Marine Corps fighter pilot, he had to grow up. He had to let himself be forged into something stronger than he’d ever wanted to be. He had to live up to the name of his squadron.

The Republic of Texas Marine Corps Fighter Attack Squadron 112. The Cowboys.

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The Veiled Guardians

by on March 28, 2026 at 12:01 am
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The Gothic Church stands sentinel over the New Haven Green in 1839, its gargoyles hidden from most eyes. Captain William Carter returns home for the Center Church on the Green’s bicentennial and sees the stone guardians for the first time in his life. The discovery draws him northward along new roads over old paths to the Sleeping Giant, where ancient Indian legends still endure. There “The Veiled Guardians” will either carve their eternal purpose in stone or crumble to dust.

The Veiled Guardians and many other fine stories can be read in the Stone and Sky anthology by Opal Kingdom Press.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXV444NM

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Savannah Magic

by on March 27, 2026 at 12:01 am
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It was 1779, and the British and their client armies held Savannah Georgia against the American Revolution. But the Americans did not fight the British alone. The French fleet and the French army had come to help retake the city. And so it was together that the Americans and the French advanced to drive the British out. Captain William Carter and his faery companion rode with the American cavalry, but little did they know that a weather god of the old world held the battlements. Savannah Magic lay on the field of battle.

Savannah Magic and many other fine stories can be found in Wyrd Warfare: Band of Monsters by Raconteur Press. Check if out if you’ve ever been interested in how armies might face armies when magic comes into play.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3FNSRHC

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Jack of Harts Substack

by on March 26, 2026 at 12:01 am
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The Jack of Harts substack is home to videos and pictures and full stories that I’ve published for you to read. Some are on the paid for side. Some are free to check out as you like. I even have a song I wrote for fun. I wrote songs when I was young, before I started writing longer stories, so that was like going back in time. It was fun.

I have stories of Captain William Carter, hunter of otherworldly creatures and threats to mankind, his travels on this and other worlds, and the foes he fights or the friends he makes.

And I have stories of Captain Jack Hart, Republic of Texas Marine Corps, and fighter of alien threats to humanity, on this and other worlds.

Mmm… I sense a pattern here… I wonder if they are related… 😉

I have links to where you can buy the novels I’ve published and the anthologies I’m in on Amazon.

Go on and check it out if you dare. You never know what stories you may enjoy.

https://jackofharts.substack.com/

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The Veiled Guardians

by on March 25, 2026 at 12:01 am
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The Veiled Guardians is my other story printed by Opal Kingdom Press, in their Stone and Sky anthology. It was all about gargoyles and how they work with people, or not, through the ages. In my own story, they were watching over the Gothic Church on the New Haven Green when Captain William Carter rode into town on his trusty warhorse. And that’s when everything goes sideways for him. If you want to check out my story, or any of the other fine offerings, please take a look at Stone and Sky. You never know what stories you might like.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXV444NM

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Mishipeshu Rising

by on March 24, 2026 at 12:01 am
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Mishipeshu Rising has been released as part of the Tentacles and Tides anthology. Don’t worry, this isn’t a Japanese manga, so not those kinds of tentacles.

The ExtraOrdinary Beasts anthologies each take a subject matter and see how different authors address them. The Phoenix. The Griffin. The Gargoyle. I have a piece in the third one, with Gargoyles in 1830s New Haven.

Now in Tentacles and Tides, Captain William Carter has gone to Lake Superior of the 1850s to face a monster that inhabits what the Indians call “The Great Sea.” Mishipeshu guards the sea and all the riches in it, and many a White Man ship has sunk to the bottom of that great body of water after angering this guardian. This monster. That and many other tales of creatures coming from the depths of the great waters of our world can be found in Tentacles and Tides.

Check it out, if you dare.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT4RD13R

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