Putting all things Maldene aside for a moment, there’s another series of stories that I write between all the Big Stuff; stories just to have some fun. Inspector Flaatphut is a tongue-in-cheek cyberpunk anthropomorphic mad ride through a future where uplifted bipedal ferries walk alongside humans in a world of domed cities, flying cars, and outrageous plots. Inspector Henry Jefferies Flaatphut is our overworked inspector for Interspec that always seems to be in the right place at the wrong time.

My first short story in this series, “Project Looking Glass”, seems to have been well-received by those lucky enough to have discovered it, so after working up a quick and dirty cover, I am now relieasing the next in the series, a novella called “The U.M.I. Corp. Connection,” where Flaatphut’s life gets even more dangerous than usual. Here’s the official synopsis for Project Looking Glass, just for you 99% out there unfamiliar with it:

In a future world where Man has uplifted a variety of species to two-legged sentience, the problems that have plagued the world have only gotten worse. Enter Inspector Henry Flaatphut of InterSpec; a former computer hacker now stuck at what amounts to a desk job, he has a 300-pound badger for a boss, a wise-cracking computer named ICy, and a pretty 5-foot feline named Miss Calico for a secretary that he never seems to have time for. A dreadful existence until that one person enters his office who sets him off on a wild search for conspiracies and mayhem on an international scale.

And now for the new The U.M.I. Corp. Connection:

Inspector Flaatphut is back, this time teaming up with Tiffany and a whole group of miscreants to track down a leathal drug, clones, and the world’s most deadly assassin. And all because his mother came to visit.

Interested? Care to download either of these? Just click on the thumbnails below or go to the Ordering page.

Project Looking Glass

The U.M.I. Corp. Connection

Addendum:  Thus far, I’ve a total of seven Flaatphut stories written; the first one being a little 6000 word short story, the second a 60,000 word novella, and the rest hovering around full 100,000 word novels.  So if interest starts taking off, then there’s a lot more to come.