Visit Mars and Venus

 A few years ago, I had an opportunity to write (or co-write with my wife, in one case) a couple of old-fashioned Space Opera tales for a new publication. But that publication never got off the ground. 

So now I have a couple of short stories just sitting there being useless. So, I've decided to subject my blog readers to them. I hope you enjoy them:

A New Sheriff in Town, by Tim and Angela DeForest:

Algernon Fitzhugh had been hired as Town Clerk for the remote and often violent Martian town of Ares Landing. But he was soon to learn that the town leaders, in a effort to save money, has assigned law enforcement duties to Algernon as well. Unqualified and terrified, the young clerk has to very rapidly learn how to tame a wild town on a new world.  

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The Fire Jewels of Venus, by Tim DeForest

Hank Allard is an expatriate Earthman who owns a steamboat carrying cargo across the oceans of Venus. But when one of his crew wins an ancient map in a poker game--a map drawn on the skin of a Venusian tyrannosaurus--that supposedly leads to an ancient treasure... well, it might be worth a look. What Hank didn't expect were encounters with cyborg dinosaurs and killer robots. 

Click HERE to download the story.