Seaside Romance
By Martha Patterson The wind whipped her bonnet strings as Anne walked along the pebbled beach. She’d walked two miles, as was her habit every day, but the weather threatened…
The Last Seconds Before the End
by Martin Lochman You see the thermonuclear bomb ten seconds before it goes off. You are on a morning train to the airport, looking out the window at the city…
Secret Simulacrums in the Shadows
by Joachim Heijndermans Nearly half an hour had passed, and Mike still hadn’t done anything worth a damn on the spreadsheet that sat there opened up on his screen, the…
Duel
Raymond MacKay Jake Plummer had just been dealt two aces and two eights when the saloon doors swung open. The man who walked in was a U.S. Marshall. Even if…
My Life
By Michael Lee Johnson My life began with a skeleton with a smile and bubbling eyes in my garden of dandelions. Everything else fell off the edge, a jigsaw puzzle…
The Bedlamite
By Ferrel D. Moore Professor Essepi had come aboard that afternoon with five other men. Three were mutes with faces drawn and thin, sunken dark eyes and bald heads, and…
One for My Enemy
A thrilling story of rival witch families in New York City, from New York Times bestselling author and internet phenomenon Olivie Blake. *new hardcover edition will include illustrated endpapers from…
Boy Torchlight and the Geek-bots
By Maureen Bowden Extract from ‘The Human Chronicles’; Geek-bot History Archives: Ivor Eames-Jones was born in the year 1990. He left school at sixteen, rebellious, undisciplined and cleverer than anyone…
A KILLER PLAN
by Conda V. Douglas Granny Sandy’s trim, tight rear end proceeded me up the steep trail, the jealousy-producing butt of a much younger woman, maybe even as young as me.…
THE COMPANION
by Eduard Duray She was like a shivering limp rag when the neighbor kid held her out to me. “You knock too loud,” I told him. “How many times do…