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Colbyjack.net Serial Fiction offers serialized novella to book length stories that are released in weekly installments, with episodes of different titles released on different days of the week.

Firmware: Book 1

In the City, a thriving metropolis encompassing a third of a billion souls, a man can change his world as easily as crossing the street.

It is a place of a million cultures, the world in microcosm.

For some it is their last hope for survival. For others it is their playground.

And for others it is their hunting ground.

Isaac Sarason is a talented hacker. A Doctor of Applied Network Theory, trusted employee of British Telecom-Sprint, he lives in a world which ninety percent of his fellow citizens can only imagine, and he has a problem.

His health is failing, his job is on the line, his world is crumbling around him.

He wants out, and the street is his only escape.

What happens when the life you dreamt of is killing you?

What do you do when you find yourself Hijacked?

Firmware: Book 2

Isaac Sarason is a skilled hacker formerly employed by British Telecom-Sprint.

With his health failing, Isaac did the only thing he could think of: He ran.

He found a haven in a working class district of the City known as Little Russia.

There Isaac took on a new name: Ishmael.

Within hours of his arrival, he was embroiled in the affairs of a brutal member of the Lomidze organized crime family known as Leo.

Convinced by a longtime friend, Frankie, to flee from his commitments to the Lomidze family, Isaac found himself hunted by the ruthless Leo.

On a rooftop, far from witnesses, Leo murdered Frankie.

Only through the use of his skills as a hacker was Isaac able to drive Leo off.

Now wounded, alone, and far from help, Isaac depends of the kindness of strangers.

What do you do when the only way to save those you love is through the use of Proxies?

Firmware: Book 3

Isaac Sarason is a skilled hacker formerly employed by British Telecom-Sprint.

When his health failed, Isaac did the only thing he could think of: He ran.

He found a haven in a working class district of the City known as Little Russia.

There Isaac took on a new name: Ishmael.

Wounded, alone, and far from help, Isaac depended of the kindness of strangers.

One stranger, a burqa wearing doctor known as Fatima, took pity on Isaac and helped him make his way to the mysterious Star-X line and the slim promise that it could save him.

What do you do when those who saved you have recorded everything you are? What do you do when your every action is tracked by the Keylogger?

An audio production of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel, featuring several narrators.

In the virtual future, you must organize to survive.

At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual “gold,” jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, others seek to exploit this vast shadow economy, running electronic sweatshops in the world's poorest countries, where countless “gold farmers,” bound to their work by abusive contracts and physical threats, harvest virtual treasure for their employers to sell to First World gamers who are willing to spend real money to skip straight to higher-level gameplay.

Mala is a brilliant 15-year-old from rural India whose leadership skills in virtual combat have earned her the title of “General Robotwalla.” In Shenzen, heart of China's industrial boom, Matthew is defying his former bosses to build his own successful gold-farming team. Leonard, who calls himself Wei-Dong, lives in Southern California, but spends his nights fighting virtual battles alongside his buddies in Asia, a world away. All of these young people, and more, will become entangled with the mysterious young woman called Big Sister Nor, who will use her experience, her knowledge of history, and her connections with real-world organizers to build them into a movement that can challenge the status quo.

The ruthless forces arrayed against them are willing to use any means to protect their power—including blackmail, extortion, infiltration, violence, and even murder. To survive, Big Sister's people must out-think the system. This will lead them to devise a plan to crash the economy of every virtual world at once—a Ponzi scheme combined with a brilliant hack that ends up being the biggest, funnest game of all.

By Trisha M. Wilson

The Black Eastern Chipmunk Squad has a new member.

Elgar is straight off of the bunny sleigh and has always wanted to be a secret agent. His leader, Jasna (a girl!) is so nice that she's letting one of her men take him into the woods to train.

Elgar's never been in the woods alone before, so he's super excited.

But what's he to do when he finds more than he expects during his training?

Who knows what will happen in the woods when fowl play is involved?

By Trisha M. Wilson

The people of the Fire, the Blesa, led by their Queens, have ruled the Island of Alfeyju and oppressed the Driva, the people of the Ice, for more than sixteen generations.

With the Drivian King in hiding, and little hope on the horizon, the Driva look to one person to save them from the vile Blesa: the Diviana.

According to legend, the divinely gifted Diviana will one day overthrow the Blesa and restore the Drivian King to his rightful throne.

But with the search having lasted for more than four hundred years, will the Diviana ever come to light?

Willow is the slave of the Raskpil family.  Bought at the age of four, twenty years have passed since her life irrevocably changed.  Her existence is no worse than any other slave, but within, Willow wonders if there isn't something more she should be doing with her life other than serving the ungrateful.

Ordered to travel with her master's family to Sondertoft so her master's adult children can take part in an ancient rite of passage, Willow is shocked when she learns that she too must participate.

Will she fail as all before her have?

Will she rise to the challenge and become stronger after passing through the flames?

By Trisha M. Wilson

It all started when his best friend died.

His eyes turned cold and whatever soul he'd had disappeared.

I thought I was going crazy until the first body turned up.

Then there was another, and another.

The bodies piled up and nobody noticed.

Since that fateful day, my life has been a…

…Nightmare.

By RL Ferguson

Scarlet is a princess.

This is obvious as her mother is a queen and her father is a knight.

Life passes in idyllic splendor with her stuffed animal companions Captain Bear and Sergeant Mouse.

Then the trolls arrive in her wardrobe with a desperate message from the town of Straw-on-Water.

The Mouse Queen is a prisoner of the diabolical Beast.

It is up to Scarlet, Captain Bear, and Sergeant Mouse to rescue the Mouse Queen across a wondrous realm where Scarlet learns that things aren't always as they first seem.

By Trisha M. Wilson

Lord Zenith has a plan: Make the subjects of Aquerna, the squirrel kingdom ruled over by his cousin, Queen Lucina, believe that winter is far away so he can steal their nuts.

Simple, right?

Except his cousin, Queen Lucina, and her women dug up the nuts before the snows fell, disrupting his carefully plotted plan.

Zenith isn't worried, he has a backup plan and the BECS.

The BECS is an elite squad of chipmunk commandos known as the Black Eastern Chipmunk Squad.

They are the best of the best.

No nuts are safe when they are on the prowl.

Not even those held in the vaults of the Aquerna bank.

Will Zenith be able to pull off the perfect heist?

Or will his cousin defeat him yet again?

By Trisha M. Wilson

Planet of Riches Trilogy: Book 1

For someone who's been in college as long as I have, you'd think I'd be used to people by now. And for the most part I am… until I met Meredith.

Meredith was annoying on too many levels to count and was just too self centered to live. Not that I had plans on killing her because I didn't. Instead, I planned to ship her away to a slave planet where she'd spend the rest of her life toiling away in inhumane conditions. Poetic justice as I like to think of it for all she'd ever done to me.

But as I dug into her history, and present, I found out that she was looking for the Planet of Riches, a mystical planet which generations of people have been searching for.

A planet I'd just started searching for.

If that wasn't bad enough, she was dealing with the Planet Mafia, the biggest and most organized mafia in the universe. Could I use this association to my advantage or would I end up disappointed? Would I find the Planet of Riches or end up as lost as all the others who'd searched and found nothing? What secrets did this planet have just waiting to be revealed?