Terry Martin-Back
The Pigeon Key
The Price of Perfection is Extinction.
Leader Wei wanted a spotless kingdom.
A single, repulsive stain of pigeon feces on a national monument drove him to commission the unthinkable: Project Clean Slate, the creation of P-Rex, a bio-weapon engineered to purge the avian pests forever.
When an unprecedented earthquake shatters the containment facility, the weapon escapes. P-Rex mutates through livestock, making a terrifying, terminal leap to humanity. It becomes the Wei Pathogen Virus (WPV), a disease that crawls across the skin in pustules before dissolving the lungs from the inside out.…
Terry Martin-Back
The Witches of Culpepper
The greatest power comes at the highest price, the suffering of mankind.
In a world secretly governed by kinetic energy, where human emotions possess raw, exploitable force, two ambitious sisters defy ancient law. Kim, the Architect, and Lori, the Enforcer, are the new apex of magical power, capable of cheating death by harvesting the kinetic discharge of human conflict.
Their ambition leads them to the deadliest field of power in the 19th century: the American Civil War.
But true immortality requires a horrifying anchor, the slow, continuous draining of a single, innocent life.…
Terry Martin-Back
The Crystal Grimoire
For generations, the Minix family lived quietly in the shadow of the Kentucky mountains, unaware that their blood carried the residue of an ancient, occult sovereignty. But the blood has stopped sleeping. Now, two women are faced with choices that will either crown them or consume them.
In a world where the sun and moon are at war, the only way to survive is to stay grounded.
Terry Martin-Back
The Levy County Ambush
The idea for The Levy County Ambush did not come from a single news headline or event.
It came from years of watching how fear and frustration can harden people, how neighbors stop talking, how anger becomes an identity, and how the need to belong can be twisted into something destructive.
In my years working and speaking across communities, I’ve seen the quiet struggles that live behind closed doors: the loss of work, the erosion of trust, the growing noise of division. I’ve seen how easily the disillusioned can be swept into movements that promise power but deliver only pain.
This story is not meant to point fingers, nor to exploit tragedy.
It is meant to understand it.…