Stephen Bryant Simmons

Early Old Babylonian Documents

Here There Be Faeries

In this short story, international relations take a strange twist when the United Nations finds a number of new delegates demanding recognition. Faeries and elves, goblins and ents, and even Death himself make an appearance in this game of wits not only to save all Faeriekind but, quite possibly, hu...

The Planter's Wife

Post War Malaya: in the wreckage of Japanese occupation, the world which the British knew had gone. Some return trying to rebuild their old lives, others to start anew. But British trained, Chinese jungle soldiers armed with weapons cached at the end of WW2 seek a different, communist future for Mal...

The Galileo Syndrome (Born Between Worlds) (Volume 1)

The world can be very frightened of change. History offers us endless examples of geniuses who were treated badly because their ideas threatened the established order ... That's because Galileo didn't have a little sister named Peaches. Ricky Benson is a genius who was born with the ability to perce...

A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law (Great Lakes Books Series)

On September 24, 1830, Stephen G. Simmons, a fifty-year-old tavern keeper and farmer, was hanged in Detroit for murdering his wife, Levana Simmons, in a drunken, jealous rage. Michigan executed only two people during the fifty-year period, from 1796 to 1846, when the death penalty was legal within i...