Lorcan Pike

Quincy Graves has always been the smartest person in the room—and he hates it. A logistics consultant with a mind for spreadsheets and a soul of ice, he sees the world as a series of broken, inefficient systems. He’s bored, broke, and waiting for the right leverage point to move the world.

He finds it in the basement of a South Philly rowhouse. When a dying creature from another dimension “glitches” into his reality, Quincy doesn’t find wonder. He finds an Underutilized Asset.

By “Phase-Shifting” into the Echo—a vibrant, magical twin-Earth vibrating just out of reach—Quincy discovers a realm of ancient beauty and total, unmanaged chaos. To the “High-Born” Elves, magic is a song. To Quincy, it’s Unmapped Infrastructure.

Quincy doesn’t need to level up. He doesn’t need a sword. He introduces something far more dangerous to a world of magic: Modern Logistics. While the “noble” races bicker over ancient lineage, Quincy goes to the shadows. He recruits the “undesirables”—exiled Orcs, shunned Gorgons, and forgotten Imps—offering them modern military discipline, industrial efficiency, and Standard Rations that actually taste like food.

His ascent isn’t measured in stats, but in Control. Every contract is a binding economic system. every asset is a cog in a growing machine. With Kevlar-armored Orcs and a “Debt-Trap” that can topple empires, Quincy Graves is starting a hostile takeover of a magical world.

He isn’t here to be a hero. He isn’t even here to be a king.

He’s here to perform an Audit. And in the Echo, everyone is in arrears.

Dawn Maddox has a secret that could rewrite human history.

To the students at her new high school, she’s just the quiet girl with a talent for Shakespeare and a mysterious past. They don’t know that she used to be Daniel Shurin—a forty-year-old scientist who traded his life for a teenage body to escape a grief that was consuming him.

Living as Dawn is a performance more demanding than any role on stage. She has to learn the unwritten rules of girlhood, the weight of new friendships, and the terrifying, fizzy thrill of a first crush—all while carrying the memories of a man who lived for forty years without ever truly living.

But as the “Lola” procedure becomes a global flashpoint, Dawn’s double life begins to fracture. The science she created is being used as a weapon, and the “David Byrne” pseudonym she used to protect herself is now a target. In a world obsessed with the “Grass is Greener” promise of a second chance, Dawn is finding out that the hardest part of being sixteen isn’t the science—it’s the soul.

In the end, the only thing more dangerous than the truth is the cost of keeping it hidden.

Elias “Glass” Thorne used to be a cop. Now, he’s just a man with a glitchy cybernetic eye and a mounting debt to the kind of people who collect in blood.

When Sarah Vane walks into his office, she isn’t just looking for a private investigator; she’s looking for a miracle. Her husband, Arthur, is dead—the latest victim of a “Maglev Massacre” attributed to a sudden, violent bout of brain-burn. The official report is clean, but Sarah’s story isn’t: Arthur was a “Natural,” a man who never touched a piece of chrome in his life.

A man with no hardware shouldn’t be able to short-circuit.

Armed with nothing but a suspicious charity receipt and a wary tip from his old partner, Elias follows a trail of breadcrumbs from the neon-soaked gutters of the slums to the sterile, ivory towers of Aether-Biotech. Along the way, he’ll have to dodge debt collectors, navigate the shifting loyalties of the street, and rely on a ghost from his past—a street kid who sees the things the city tries to hide.

As the “Chrome Widow’s” secrets unravel, Elias discovers a conspiracy involving black-market wetware that goes deeper than a corporate ledger. In a world where memories can be rewritten and souls can be digitized, Elias is about to learn that some secrets are buried for a reason—and the cost of digging them up might be his last remaining shred of humanity.

History remembers the kings and the conquerors. But the real story was always happening in the shadows.

A spy hiding a red cord in the walls of a doomed city. A left-handed assassin walking alone into a tyrant’s palace. A girl in a foreign field, gleaning the leftovers of a life she didn’t choose. A woman riding into the dark to stop a future king from making a mistake that would stain his crown forever.

In The God of the Outcast, Lorcan Pike strips away the Sunday-school polish to reveal the raw, dusty reality of the Old Testament’s most “lesser-known” figures. These aren’t fairy tales. They are stories of survival, cleverness, and the quiet miracles that happen when the fireworks stop.

From the high-stakes tension of Jericho to the cosmic vision of a valley of dry bones, discover the “Architect” who doesn’t build for the now—but for the forever.

Perfect for fans of historical fiction and readers aged 12–14 who want a story that isn’t afraid of the grit.

One man. One world. Zero prayers.

Lucas Miller never paid attention in Sunday school. He was always better at fixing broken radios than listening to sermons, preferring tangible gears to invisible grace. But when a stunt gone wrong leaves him briefly dead in the back of an ambulance, Lucas wakes up in a world that works with terrifying precision—because it was built without a Creator.

In this “Atlantic Republic,” people aren’t loved; they’re optimized. They aren’t mourned; they’re recalibrated. Finding himself the only person on Earth who remembers the name of God, the “unqualified student” becomes the world’s only hope. Lucas must face his biggest irony: he has to teach the truths he never bothered to learn before the Republic’s “Censors” erase his heart.

Follow Lucas as he reluctantly accepts a calling he’s unqualified for, discovering that God doesn’t just fix broken things—He makes them whole.

If you found this, please don’t join. This isn’t a manual, it’s a record of how my family lost their minds. Inside, I’ve documented everything:

• Chapter 1: The recruitment party that nearly leveled the house.
• Chapter 4: My sister’s ‘Modest Fashion’ disaster.
• Chapter 6: The flying harness incident (we don’t talk about it).
• Chapter 9: Why the dog is now a ‘Witness.’
  It’s 9 chapters of pure chaos. Read it as a warning.

— Matthew S.w.a.C.

Meet the Stand.with.a.Commission family. They don’t have a product, a Bible, or a clue—but they have plenty of Posture. In this 9-chapter comedic odyssey, follow Gary, Susan, and their six increasingly skeptical children as they navigate the bizarre world of Laudos…