Until Dawn
In the middle of the night, there are creatures who hunt. Once they catch your scent, they will track you down. Nothing will stop them. The only way to survive is to fight UNTIL DAWN. This story will grip you from the…
Until the Sun Goes Down
The door swings in when I nudge it with my toe. I lean to peer through the gap, looking for the old man. Has he collapsed? Is he on the floor in there, suffocating in the summer heat? I want to be…
Battle for Rockhold
The meek are through waiting. They're ready to inherit the Earth right now. Rockhold used to be a quiet town in its isolated valley. The people with money were the first to disappear. They vanished at the first sign of trouble. Some…
Ruination
Decades ago, in the hills of Georgia, the music of the two brothers was born from pain. That pain was inflicted on them by a demon of a man, and even after he died, he followed them. Their audience grew and the…
Stay Away
Every small town has secrets. Some secrets can kill. He’s always been there, the old gentleman in the funeral suit, hanging around the big oak tree. Even before the cemetery was dug, the natives knew about him. He was just as much…
Succinct
Decades after the apocalypse there is a new threat to the survivors, and Ashley can't convince anyone to take it seriously. Even her father, the great Robby Pierce, can't be swayed. Her only recourse is to go off on her own to…
Extinct Series
The apocalypse begins with a blizzard. For a few unlucky survivors, it never ends. Extinct kicks off this series and is available in several formats across most major retailers. Get it for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iOS, or Android, or listen on Audible.…
Spores
Every hunter has a story of an expedition gone wrong. Every person who has held a gun has imagined what it would be like to point that barrel at another human being. Some decisions come down to survival. Other decisions are made…
Mumma’s House
The house belongs to them now. To provide for her son, June would sacrifice anything. She would live in fear every day and shield her son from it. She would stay, tormented, to hang onto his inheritance. This year, something is different. Forces in the family are…
Killer Savant
I pledge to yell at my parents, not brush my teeth, and tear up my homework.I pledge to steal the car, and shoplift candy.I pledge to burn down a vacant house, and stab a stranger.I pledge all these things because I don’t…
Distinct
Robby is seeing ghosts, and he’s not the only one. There are few people left in the world—many of them are thinking about how things might have been. They’re seeing ghosts of a life that was nearly reality. This new war that…
Island King
Some secrets, committed to the ground by careful hands, need to stay buried. Tien and Matt don’t care about that—they’re just fulfilling their obligations to the TV show that made them famous. They survived, vote after vote, as the game progressed. Now,…
Fiero’s Pizza
There’s something out there waiting for your family and it needs you to call. Your baby can sense it. In the middle of the night, when the curtains blow, you can sense it too. All it needs is an opening. Once it’s…
Beneath the Cut
In the near future, confessions and evidence won’t be required to convict a criminal. A suspect’s own memories will be Imaged to prove their guilt. Abel Dayan is in an impossible situation. A despicable child murderer has been captured and Abel has…
After We Live Forever
Desperate for a change, Holly has no idea how strange her life can become. When she is swept away to another world, she finds herself in a fight for her survival. Her only companion doesn’t speak and he could break her in…
Before We Die Alone
Since we’re all going to be dead in a week, I might as well tell you—this planet is doomed. Even if we survive the impact, or somehow manage to avoid it, humans only have a few generations left on Earth. Our habitat…
Super Apex
As a species, people have tamed the Earth. Individually, in the face of a superior predator, we’re all just as helpless as the day we were born. And a superior predator is out there. Humans may be the Apex predator, but there’s something even…
Dug the Drummer
My heart is pounding. The bar is packed. My hands are so sweaty that I can barely grip the sticks. It’s just me and the guys against a whole crowd of drunkards. It doesn’t feel like a calling, but it sure as…
Madelyn’s Last Dance
This is the third and final book of the "Madelyn" series. Look for "Madelyn's Nephew" and "Madelyn's Mistake" before reading this book. The community of Fairbanks is threatened, and there's only one person who can save them. Unfortunately, the leader of their…
Kill Cycle
The town I grew up in is dying, and I know who’s killing it. At least I think I do. But he’s a master manipulator and nobody will believe me. It’s up to me to prove that he’s the serial killer who…
Madelyn’s Mistake
For so many years, Madelyn had protected her grandmother's cabin for posterity. Her nephew proved that it simply wasn't important. Family was important. Down in Fairbanks, it’s a fragile time for the small community. Any pressure could fracture the structure they’ve achieved.…
Post Grace
Grace Anne Orlov died peacefully in her home on Thursday, the 7th. Her husband, John, survives her in body if not in spirit. John studied killers and death, but failed to learn how to live alone after more than forty years of…
Madelyn’s Nephew
They just met. Now she has vowed to save him. After the sun turned, Madelyn fled north to escape the riots and the encroaching glaciers. As long as the world was ending, she wanted to live her final days in the one…
Accidental Evil
Kingston Lakes is a quiet town. During long summer days, the residents barely have a care. They almost never have to worry about the rise of a bloodthirsty demon who wants to feast on their flesh and enslave their immortal souls. Almost never.
Wild Fyre
The perfect technology would anticipate our every need, solve our problems, and answer questions we hadn’t thought to ask. The perfect technology would defend itself. It would spread everywhere.It would kill if it had to. In this unique blend of Sci-Fi and Horror,…
Punch List
Jeff doesn’t want to think about the future. He’s not even sure he can deal with the present. High school, friends who aren’t friendly, and his crumbling family are hard enough. It’s time for him to make a change. Maybe, with a…
Inhabited
They were looking for an adventure—a night of harmless fun. Miguel has a map. Kristin’s friend has the equipment. The mine leads to the cave, and the cave is where they’ll find their fortune.But down in the darkness, something waits. It needs them.The…
The Claiming
It wasn’t her fault. It wasn’t Lizzy’s fault that she saw the cloaked people out in the yard. It wasn’t her fault that she was drawn by the moonlight to watch them as they advanced on the house. And it definitely wasn’t her…
Camp Sacrifice
Welcome to Camp Sacrifice.You’ll find your cabin clean and comfortable, but please bring the following items to get the most out of your vacation this summer:1 - personal story of bone-chilling fright1 - mirror for summoning spirits1 - sharp knife for things…
Transcription
Thomas has found the biggest story of his career, and he can’t believe his luck. He’s sitting in the prison cell that at one time housed each of The Big Four, the state’s most notorious murderers. There’s only one problem: he’s beginning…
Instinct
Surviving the end of the world wasn’t enough. Driving away an alien invasion wasn’t enough. Faced with certain death, Robby’s group is on the move once more. They’re headed west, hoping to find other people who have escaped the apocalypse. To live,…
Skillful Death
Deep in an Old World forest, an unnamed village lies hidden. Decades pass as the village waits for its special son to return. The boy challenged the lion, bested the snake, and defeated the elephant. He possessed an unearthly skill. His return…
Migrators
Do not speak of them. Your words leave a scent. They will come.Somewhere in the middle of Maine, one of the world's darkest secrets has been called to the surface. Alan and Liz just wanted a better life for themselves and their…
Blood Ghost
They stopped the monster, but his blood remained. It soaked into the forest floor, poisoning the New Hampshire soil. The witch fed. She, the Blood Ghost, the thief of life’s essence, grew strong on that blood, and she grew bold. Now she’s…
Extinct
The blizzard hit like a hammer, right on Thanksgiving Day. But on a little island off the coast of Maine, the falling snow wasn’t the dangerous part. There was something out there in the storm. Anyone who went outside would vanished. Robby…
The Hunting Tree
For thousands of years a supernatural killer has slept in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. An amateur ghost hunter has just woken him up. Now that he stalks the night once more, he's traveling east. Although the monster's actions are pure…
Lies of the Prophet
Gregory was the first to rise from the grave. With no organs and no pulse he burst from his coffin demanding to know why he’d been buried. His subsequent book made him a billionaire and encouraged others to follow in his footsteps.…
The Vivisectionist
The boys have the perfect summer planned. They'll camp out in the backyard for their last vacation before high school. There's only one problem — even though they're just a hundred feet from the safety of the house, they're being hunted by…
Stars 2020 – New Rules
The original rules for Stars were pretty simple. A set of drop targets would advance the bonus, light extra ball, and then special. A spinner between the drops was worth 200 and it ramped up 400 more for each center drop. If,…
Software – Bally/Stern OS
My goal for this software is to create an Arduino-based pinball operating system for Stern MPU-100 and Bally AS-2518-17 machines. Programming for Arduinos is very simple and the IDE isn't wonderful, but it's free. The OS will take care of all of…
Switches
Reading switches is the easiest part of this process. The switches are organized into banks of 8, and each bank is energized by a different switch strobe. The lines U10A:PA0-PA4 are the strobes and the return values are read on U10B:PB0-PB7. A…
Solenoids
The M6800 implementation of solenoids uses the 120Hz ISR to control the solenoids. They did this for several reasons: Time out the duration that solenoids are kept on. According to the Bally Theory of Operation document most solenoids need to be kept…
Lamps
Compared to the displays, writing to the lamps is fairly easy. Well, that's not exactly true. It's fairly easy once you understand how they're using the MC14514 chip, which actually took me a little while to figure out. My first attempts weren't…
Displays
The games I've worked on have five 6-digit displays. There are four player displays and one for credits/ball-in-play. These displays only show one digit at a time, but they flip so quickly between them that it looks like all six are on…
PIA Chips – 6820
The 6820 PIA (Peripheral Interface Adapter) chips are how the M6800 talks to the outside world. They're used to either latch data to send to the lamps, display, or solenoids, or they're used to grab input data and hold it for the…
Overview of MPU
The Stern MPU-100 is identical to the Bally AS-2518-17 board. At least I think it is. I've worked on both, I can't find any difference, and I've read that plugging the ROMs from one into the other works just fine in a…
Stern MPU-100 / Bally AS-2518-17 Games
Stern MPU-100 Cosmic PrincessDraculaHot HandLectronamoMagicMemory LaneNugentPinballStarsStingrayTour De FranceTridentWild Fyre Bally AS-2518-17 301/Bulls EyeBlack JackBow and ArrowEight BallEvel KnievelFreedomMata HariNight RiderPower PlayStrikes and Spares I haven't worked with the Bally AS-2518-35, but my understanding is that it adds A14, meaning more address space…