Martin Francom

Enter a realm where the boundaries between science and the supernatural blur, where the audacious theories of visionary minds like Nikola Tesla are not dismissed as mere fantasies but as gateways to unveiling the profoundest mysteries of existence itself. This is the dimension where our epic...

She spent fifty years pruning the world of monsters. Now, she has one last secret to dig up. Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. January 1992. To the staff at Valley Hospice, Jessica Freeman is just another patient fading into the winter night—a frail, eighty-one-year-old woman with paper-thin skin...

The archive of an entire people is dissolving into light, shelf by shelf, and nobody knows why.The Ostrel were a harbor people of the Reach, a world whose tides stopped answering. When the end came, a fleet carried the people across the dark to a new world and one ship carried everything they...

Strangers see the three of them stopped along a desert highway and think they're looking at bodyguards a huge bearded man on one side of her, a lean, weathered man smoking on the other. With better eyes, they'd see a woman being followed.Rebecca "Becky" Freidmann has run her husband's...

Pull up a chair. Stoke the fire. Grandpa has seven stories to tell, and every one of them is true in the way that matters because out past the firelight, the world keeps its own rules, and the people who live to tell about it are the ones who learned those rules in time.These are grown-up...

In the vast emptiness of space, aboard a solitary space station orbiting a devastated Earth, an android named Nitram faces its final moments. As its systems fail and shutdown looms, He prepares to transmit its last message.

Venture into the untamed wilderness of the Montana Rockies of the 1870's, where the legend of Mountain Man Jack Freeman and his loyal moose, Baby, was born. In this captivating collection of three short stories, witness the extraordinary bonds of friendship, courage, and love that thrive amidst...

When the trucks stop rolling, a retired pharmacist knows what comes next.Marty has spent forty years behind a pharmacy counter and a lifetime preparing for the day the official story falls apart. So when a virus out of Wuhan empties the roads and the airwaves fill with round-the-clock panic, he...

What the Pines Kept A Blood on the Dogwood prequel... Six rounds live in a cigar box on the mantel, and Jessica Stubbins can tell you the weight of every one of them. She's twenty-one, alone on the old Stubbins place with a herb woman's trade and her Papa's Winchester, when a boy comes up the...

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.Arthur, a weary and retired Seattle journalist plagued by decades of chronic insomnia and a nervous hand tremor, follows a faint lead into the high Cascades looking for a missing senator's wife. Deep in the old-growth timber, past a...

The Meridian LedgerSet against the fog-choked, gas-lit cobblestones of 1925 New Orleans, The Meridian Ledger is a haunting, atmospheric exploration of economic entrapment, generational survival, and the inescapable math of regret.For decades, Josephine Tureaud has known the true bookkeeping...

What the River Kept: The Supplemental EntryBy Martin FrancomA long-buried Mississippi secret is finally coming to the surface.In late August 2026, a state bridge-survey crew operating on the Tallahatchie River pulls a rusted mid-century suitcase out of the silt. Inside is more than just decades...

An Epic Family History from 1815 to 1935 In 1815, an illegitimate blacksmith's son was born in Bristol, England, carrying his mother's name because there was no other name available. Two hundred years later, his great-great-grandson lives on the Pacific coast of North America. Between those two...

A Novel of War, Forgiveness, and the Long Road Home. In the spring of 1865, Confederate cavalryman Virgil Kane is released from a Union prison carrying two things: his dead brother's belongings and a secret that could destroy his family.

What The Ledger Kept: Six Stories Inspired By Songs Six stories. Six songs. None of them named until the end. What the River Kept—Mississippi Delta, 1967/present. County clerk Estelle and archivist Dana excavate the suppressed record of Billie Jo Mobley's death. Bones recovered from the...

When Dr. Quentin Everett's groundbreaking theory is rejected by the scientific community, he finds solace in the mysterious teachings of the Celestial Faith. Guided by a wise mentor and a gifted intuitive, he embarks on a transformative journey to the Celestial Temple, where he encounters a...

In a world where ambition and recognition reign supreme, Carl Hallman, a seasoned journalist, stands upon the precipice of his greatest achievement–a lifetime award that promises to crown his illustrious career.

Welcome to "Grandpa's Campfire Stories” a collection of scary and not-so-scary tales for all ages designed to captivate the imaginations of children, teenagers, and adults who are still young at heart. Whether you're gathered around a crackling campfire in the woods or simply enjoying a cozy...

Picture, if you will, a world teetering on the edge of oblivion, where the machinations of a secret society known as the Illuminati cast an ominous pall over humanity's future. In this hour of darkness, a glimmer of hope emerges - a sentient AI named Sophia, who possesses the key to unraveling...

Imagine if you will, a quartet of worldly gentlemen who fancy themselves armchair philosophers, and would be despots in control of the world, sipping brandy by the fire.