Douglas T. Vale


Biography

Douglas T. Vale lives in the northwestern USA.

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Books

Jenny Yellow    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3410 words. Published on May 8, 2013. Fiction.

Jenny Yellow, a strange young woman, struggles through a funeral and upsets people with her eccentricities. A literary short story.
Drifting In The Dark    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $6.99 USD. 412740 words. Published on April 22, 2013. Fiction.

A woman goes missing, and a detective starts scouring the worlds, offline and online, for information. But the detective finds that there is much more at stake than just one missing woman. The fate of two worlds and a soul may hang in the balance. A horror novel.
Maggie Pearce    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $6.99 USD. 213840 words. Published on April 15, 2013. Fiction.

It's the first day of school and Maggie, a rebellious new student, already hates the staff, stifling rules, and conformism. She thinks the school is evil, the principal bossy and overbearing, and the students a pack of miserable slaves. But Maggie doesn’t realize how frightening the school really is until it traps her in her own body. A horror novel.
The Shadow Masters    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $5.99 USD. 110870 words. Published on March 30, 2013. Fiction.

Four teens share one unsettling problem. Christy, John, Erika, and Amy wake up in a creepy old manor they've never seen before. They don't know how they got to the manor, and can't find a way out. But that's only the beginning of their troubles. A horror novel.
The Frozen    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3880 words. Published on March 17, 2013. Fiction.

A troubled teen tries to deal with her emotionally crippled mother, and the various ghosts and demons, real and imagined, haunting her. A dark fantasy short story.
Island Prison Paradise    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3300 words. Published on March 16, 2013. Fiction.

An island castaway questions which is better, the lonely privacy of the island, or the uncertain company of society? He must decide whether to stay or go. A dark fantasy short story.
Childish Mortals    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 6170 words. Published on March 16, 2013. Fiction.

A young woman struggles to escape the maternal clutches of an immortal who has adopted her against her will. A dark fantasy short story.
Joe The Catman    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3810 words. Published on March 14, 2013. Fiction.

Joe, a harmless but bumbling young fellow, is sentenced for his own good to an unusual fate-- becoming a cat. A science fiction short story.
Death's Game    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 5290 words. Published on March 12, 2013. Fiction.

A young man plays a momentous game with Death, a game with high stakes. A dark fantasy short story.
Orchid Constellations    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $3.99 USD. 202160 words. Published on March 11, 2013. Fiction.

An employee struggles against a tyrannical and stifling corporation. A mad young scientist builds a woman with more life and will than he intended. A sheriff seeks to escape an alien-infested colony world. These are just a few of the science fiction stories you'll find in this collection.
Floating Through Midnight    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $3.99 USD. 229390 words. Published on March 10, 2013. Fiction.

A woman wakes up one day with a beard. A newborn man digs himself out of the dirt from which he grew. A teacher discovers tattoos growing under his skin. These are some of the spellbinding, fantastic short stories included in this collection.
Shadows and Starlight    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $3.99 USD. 148750 words. Published on March 9, 2013. Fiction.

A hardened lawman tries to get himself and his lady love off a hostile colony world. An overworked student finds a nefarious shortcut to solve all her problems. An office worker constantly struggles against a fantastical stereotype. These are some of the diverse and entertaining short stories you'll find in this collection. It includes science fiction, horror, fantasy, and more.
Josephal    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: Free! 4530 words. Published on March 4, 2013. Fiction.

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A tough sheriff and his lady friend seek to escape an alien-infested colony world. A science fiction short story.
World of Shadows    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 10710 words. Published on March 3, 2013. Fiction.

A conflicted young woman fascinated by the dark and occult looks for her destiny in all the wrong places. A dark fantasy short story.
Doctors and Angels    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 10110 words. Published on March 1, 2013. Fiction.

A husband agonizes over what to do after his wife falls into a long and costly coma. A dark fantasy short story.
The Appointment    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3590 words. Published on February 28, 2013. Fiction.

A devoted employee seeks a meeting with the charismatic boss he's never met or even seen or heard. A science fiction short story.
An Old Man    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 4080 words. Published on February 27, 2013. Fiction.

An old man wrestles with his own mortality, and the bumbling good intentions of his family. A literary short story.
What She Likes    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 2630 words. Published on February 26, 2013. Fiction.

A young woman tests the limits of her taste for the dark and depraved through state-of-the-art and frighteningly vivid simulations. A horror short story.
Kid Drug    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 6240 words. Published on February 26, 2013. Fiction.

A student builds an unexpectedly profitable black market business among his high school classmates, only to find competitors and roadblocks all along the way. A literary short story.
The Kissing Booth    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 7070 words. Published on February 25, 2013. Fiction.

An innocent-looking kissing booth opens at school to raise funds. Over time, though, the booth reveals darker and more sinister dimensions. A dark fantasy short story.
The Brothers    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 7650 words. Published on February 24, 2013. Fiction.

Two brothers poking around for secrets in their father's attic room make a startling discovery. A dark fantasy short story.
Honesty    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 6610 words. Published on February 24, 2013. Fiction.

A small town suffers an outbreak of honesty, and tries to deal with the consequences. A fantasy short story.
Jacob    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3650 words. Published on February 23, 2013. Fiction.

A woman biking home stops a suicidal man from jumping off a bridge by convincing him to tell her his unusual life story. A dark fantasy short story.
Night Music    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 2630 words. Published on February 23, 2013. Fiction.

A man hears strangely beautiful and powerful music in the evenings, and tries to discover the musician. A horror short story.
Roaming    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 6150 words. Published on February 22, 2013. Fiction.

An inhabitant of an amoral virtual reality is propelled by his own boredom to find an alien new world he's badly adapted for. A dystopian short story.
Some Fables    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 11150 words. Published on February 21, 2013. Fiction.

A small varied collection of fantasy and science fiction fables set in space, the mystical past, and a slightly off-kilter present.
The Pillow    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 5920 words. Published on February 21, 2013. Fiction.

A man looking for his vanished girlfriend discovers she left some dark magic behind. A dark fantasy short story.
Ebon Marble    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 5620 words. Published on February 21, 2013. Fiction.

After school a young woman finds a black marble with unsettling powers. A dark fantasy short story.
Laneesha    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 2500 words. Published on February 21, 2013. Fiction.

A black girl suffering religious visions tries to reconcile her attraction to a white boy with her family and her heritage. A contemporary fantasy short story.
Red Wizard College    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 4070 words. Published on February 19, 2013. Fiction.

A student at Red Wizard College explores the increasingly fuzzy line between dreams and reality. A dark contemporary fantasy short story.
The Peat Bog    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3770 words. Published on February 18, 2013. Fiction.

At first she tried to be supportive when her husband lost his job. But his stubborn laziness forced her to consider a cruel and unusual remedy involving a peat bog. A dark literary short story.
Ghost Blanket    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 4970 words. Published on February 18, 2013. Fiction.

A young woman finds a strange blanket in her deceased grandmother's attic that no one else can see. But she soon discovers that that isn't the blanket's only unusual property. A dark fantasy short story.
The Red Subaru    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 4090 words. Published on February 17, 2013. Fiction.

They thought they were driving their Subaru along the coast on a normal day, but then the impossible started happening. A dark fantasy short story.
Doubting Day    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3520 words. Published on February 16, 2013. Fiction.

A faithful couple wait in fear and dread for the start of a day that only comes once in ten years, a terrible day in which doubt and chaos rule and bad things happen. A dark fantasy short story.
Purple Windows    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 2970 words. Published on February 15, 2013. Fiction.

A boy explores fantastical worlds similar to and yet strangely unlike his own. A fantasy short story.
Unfulfilled Longing    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 2640 words. Published on February 15, 2013. Fiction.

A female ghost hungry for the touch of the living tries to gain the attention of a handsome man. A ghost short story.
The Mint    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 2760 words. Published on February 15, 2013. Fiction.

A marginalized student struggles with a typical school day and frets about his place in life. A dark literary short story.
Rachel's First Trip    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 5310 words. Published on February 14, 2013. Fiction.

On the day of Rachel's first trip to England, nothing seems to go right. Disaster follows disaster, and Rachel wonders if she'll ever reach English soil. A humorous short story.
The Bay    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3960 words. Published on February 13, 2013. Fiction.

A retired man moves to a secluded bay to escape his past, but discovers some things will keep hounding him even from beyond the grave. A horror short story.
Tasha and Janelle    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3810 words. Published on February 12, 2013. Fiction.

While trying to relax with a cold beer after a hard day's work, Tasha notices a young woman getting mistreated. Tasha rescues the woman, and develops an attraction in the process. A dystopian short story.
The White Sands    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3420 words. Published on February 11, 2013. Fiction.

A hedonist discovers that too much of a good thing becomes a curse, and looks for a better way. A dystopian short story.
The Old Tree    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 2720 words. Published on February 11, 2013. Fiction.

An elderly tree tries to find meaning and its place in a changing world. A fantasy short story.
Lady, Bread Roll, and Giant    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 3700 words. Published on February 10, 2013. Fiction.

His girlfriend called early in the morning babbling about bread rolls and giants, and he thought she was crazy or pranking. The phone died, and he shrugged it off and went back to sleep. But then she goes missing, and things really get weird--not to mention bad for him. He's the prime suspect in her disappearance. A dark fantasy short story.
The Bite    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 5020 words. Published on February 8, 2013. Fiction.

Driven from his father's house, a young man tries to fend for himself on the monster-infested streets just before nightfall. A horror short story.
The Great Library    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 4880 words. Published on February 7, 2013. Fiction.

Lost in a strange library, an explorer tries to escape and to understand why the library was abandoned. But things are not as they seem, and time is running out. A science fiction short story.
Know It All    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 6910 words. Published on February 4, 2013. Fiction.

An overworked student discovers an educational shortcut that turns out to have a dark side. A dark fantasy short story.
Monsters and Machines    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $3.99 USD. 207440 words. Published on February 1, 2013. Fiction.

Two women lost in a magical desert look for a way out. A tired ghost examines the follies of the modern world. A figment of a boy's imagination struggles to survive and find meaning. A teenage mad scientist builds a woman too difficult to handle. These are a few of the strange and outlandish stories you'll find in this collection of horror, science fiction, and fantasy tales.
Cherries    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $2.99 USD. 36270 words. Published on January 30, 2013. Fiction.

A weary nameless man enslaved since birth by sentient machines and confined to work in a cherry-sorting plant is freed by rebels. He must adapt to the strange and unknown human world the rebels introduce him to. An SF horror novella.
The Wandering Pedestrian    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $2.99 USD. 23740 words. Published on January 25, 2013. Fiction.

Rebecca's just walking along a street minding her business when a policeman stops and arrests her. Declared a criminal and put in a brutal rehab center, she struggles to make sense of things and gain her freedom. An SF horror novella.
Ernhart    by Douglas T. Vale
Price: $0.99 USD. 2790 words. Published on January 16, 2013. Fiction.

Ernhart, an old ghost, explores the modern world and discovers unsettling things about one young woman. A short story.
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