Boulder

by Bruce Blake

The orders: attack. Disruptor blasts explode all around and, in the heat of battle, Private Scott Stone does the unthinkable: he hides. The boulder provides him haven until the suns set and the battle fades along with the light. And he finds everyone dead; everyone except a wounded lieutenant. Now, Stone must decide between saving the man who may have seen him desert his post and saving himself.

Nook

First published May 26, 2010

About the author

Bruce Blake lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. When pressing issues like shovelling snow and building igloos don't take up his spare time, Bruce can be found taking the dog sled to the nearest cafe to work on his short stories and novels.

Actually, Victoria, B.C. is only a couple hours north of Seattle, Wash., where more rain is seen than snow. Since snow isn't really a pressing issue, Bruce spends more time trying to remember to leave the "u" out of words like "colour" and "neighbour" than he does shovelling.

Bruce's first short story, "Another Man's Shoes" was published in the Winter 2008 edition of Cemetery Moon. "Yardwork" was made into a podcast in Oct., 2011 by Pseudopod. "On Unfaithful Wings" is Bruce's first novel but there are many more to come.