Angela B Zambrano

If obsession meets desperation, the result will never be good for more than a few fleeting moments. Should the obsession be driven by addiction and the desperation by loneliness and a sense of emptiness, then the chances are high of someone getting hurt. When a charismatic, attractive and successful...

A SYMBIOSIS novelette (13,400 words)When sentient rights activist Kate McGinnis recruits a small-time grifter for a card game, neither of them have any idea of what they're getting themselves into as they step onto the pages of history.Confidence Man is the story of Jimmy Doherty, who jumps at the c...

Book 2 of the SYMBIOSIS Series Sergeant Mike Richardson loves to fight—or so he thinks. He’s at home in the Symbiont Safety Patrol. An underground railroad of sorts, the organization rescues sentient non-humans, his people, from abusive human owners. He loves the action; the ‘cause’ is secondary unt...

Book 1 of the SYMBIOSIS SeriesA dream gone bad:One hundred years after Dr. Irwin C. Jacobs begins his quest to develop a truly cognitive neural array, "artificial sentients" live amongst us and are sold in retail stores. With the establishment of a new slavery comes a new abolitionist movement and a...

Book 2 of the SYMBIOSIS Series (125,000 words)Sergeant Mike Richardson loves to fight—or so he thinks. He’s at home in the Symbiont Safety Patrol. An underground railroad of sorts, the organization rescues sentient non-humans, his people, from abusive human owners. He loves the action; the ‘cause’ i...

The SYMBIOSIS IntroductionThe mid 22nd century. It is in many respects a world we would recognize. Like our own, it’s a world with instantaneous, worldwide communications, computers of ever increasing sophistication and permanent human occupancy of outer space. But it is also a very different world,...

A SYMBIOSIS short story (6,800 words)Meet Helen, the beautiful non-human sentient, created and owned by General Holographic. She serves her masters faithfully at their retail outlet in Atlanta's Northside Mall, her mundane existence defined by the role of an in-store system demonstrator. Like all sl...

A SYMBIOSIS novelette (17,700 words)When a young man pays a visit to a popular brothel, he's in for a rude awakening. Staffed by sentient non-humans, the brothel is in reality a house of horrors that sends him fleeing back to the only people he knows who can do something about it. They are skeptical...