Project Enterprise: The Short Stories: Short Story Collection

Men in Jeans --Working at Area 51, life can't get stranger until Richard's assigned to discover where a SF writer gets ideas for her books.
Steam Time -- Headed to Marfa, the ghost lights bump Tobias Smith and a damsel in distress into an alternate reality with automaton gangs and airships.

Two short stories from the Project Enterprise universe.

Men in Jeans

A romantic suspense mystery

Richard Daniels thinks life can't any stranger working at Area 51until he gets assigned to find out where a Houston area SF writer gets the ideas for her books. Should be an easy assignment--if it weren't for the dead guy in her back yard and the non-business related ideas she's giving him. (Originally appeared in the Death in Texas anthology)

Steam Time

A romantic steampunk adventure

The man formerly known as Tobias Smith hadn't planned to ride along with Dr. Everly and his Medicine Show. Grifters gave him a pain their elixirs couldn't heal. But he was headed to Marfa, too. And Everly's son turned out to be a really a fine looking damsel--one in distress when the ghost lights of Marfa bump them into an alternate reality complete with an automaton gang and airships. Could he be the good guy? Be the hero, save the day and get the girl? (Originally appeared in Dreamspell Steampunk Vol 1)





Project Enterprise started accidentally and grew organically from the morass that is my Muse aka my brain. Along the way, I wrote these two short(ish) stories to bridge the gap between the novels releasing into the wild. They are probably as different as two stories can be. One is a romantic suspense, the other a steampunk adventure. The only thing that connects them is my alternate realty universe. And a sense of humor. Oh, and the fact that they are both fiction (totally made up). But other than that, very different.



I love writing romantic suspense, and plan to continue to write both romantic suspense and science fiction romance going forward, but what sent me into space was the realization that my suspense could also be classified as action adventure. I love a good, high octane adventure story. So I sort of veered off the pure path of romantic suspense when I wrote BYTE ME, then ran off into the wild with OUT OF TIME, my World War II time travel romance. Adventure. With lots of action.



When I wrote THE KEY, I didn't realize I'd written either a space opera or a science fiction romance book. I thought I'd written a romantic action adventure novel that just happened to take place in another galaxy. I don't "do" science, so I made up my own. And continued to make it all up as I wrote GIRL GONE NOVA, TANGLED IN TIME, STEAMROLLED, and KICKING ASHE. Totally made all the science up in my science fiction. I know, crazy, right?



So, if you don't mind made up science fiction written by a girl, and you like romance with happy endings, then welcome to my world. I hope you'll sit down, pull up a footstool and kick on the ereader. Oh, and grab your favorite munchie and thirst quencher. Some of my books are a little long. :-)



For more information about all my adventures in writing, check out my website at paulinebjones.com.