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How the Vortex Changed My Life

by Pamela K. Kinney

Cat Viggolone just can’t get a break. She'd gotten married, but that ended when the husband left her for his younger secretary. She'd wanted children. That flew out the window along with the cheating husband. There’s the career, but working a window at the Virginia DMV can’t really be classified as a great career choice. At thirty-three, her life had become positively dull. Then the vortex opened. Sucked up into a corridor just outside of Hell, she meets Connor, a werewolf, and Larry, a demon ... more

The Death Wish Game

by Jonathan Chateau

It's the game you never asked to play.
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A one-way bus ticket to Florida offers Rodney Corso the chance at a fresh start from his dead-end life in South Carolina.

Unfortunately, during the ten-hour trek to Miami, he and the rest of the passengers awaken to find themselves duct-taped to their seats, stranded in the middle of nowhere and informed that they’re participants in a game of survival.

“The rules are simple,&rdquo... more

Clown Moon

by Alex Jameson

Former Marine sniper Sam Asher enjoys his casual civilian life. He’s content with his mundane job, steady girlfriend, and halfway decent apartment, until tragedy strikes too close to home, in a manner that appears to be related to a nationwide epidemic of creepy clown sightings.

Bent on vengeance, Sam hits the road to track down a deranged killer. Accompanied by his brother Jake, and pursued by an overly ambitious Homeland Security Agent, Sam will need to use every resource, every... more

Escape Velocity (The Quantum War Book 1)

by Jonathan Paul Isaacs

Just reinstated after a disastrous mission, RESIT Lieutenant Wyatt Wills thinks he's been given a garbage assignment: recon the planet Juliet, Earth's largest and most prosperous offworld colony. Upon entering the system, things quickly turn serious when he finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly pandemic, a government in turmoil, and brutal martial law that slaughters citizens by the thousands. A chance encounter with an underground resistance movement might be the key to saving millio... more

Fraction in Time (The Stelladaur Series, Book 3)

by S.L. Whyte

Life at the Bleak was anything but a game. There were rules to follow. What if Reilly didn't follow the rules? Something bizarre happens to Reilly when he returns from Ireland 1896 through the portal to the library near his home. He feels different. Almost as if he's not the same person that he was before he left ... or worse! Finally, he kisses Norah! But that leads to haunting flashbacks of Black Castle--where Deceptors imprint the bodies of their prisoners--and other horrors h... more

The Scarlet Bastards - The Bone Witch

by Sean MacUisdin

"I am a monster" Those words chill me to the bone so many decades later. She was indeed, a monster.

Call of the Phoenix

by Erik Daniel Shein and Melissa Davis

Ever since the beginning, people have shared the world with the animals. Magical guardians once guided the people to treat all Earth’s creatures with reverence. The mystical winged serpent, Challis, lived within the chosen guardians, guiding them to promote a peaceful co-existence. When her spirit transcended from the mystical amulet to the next spirit keeper, darkness eroded her purity, making her pure magic a new vessel for darkness. When the new keeper’s reign was broken, the damage had alrea... more

Dark Hunger With Bonus Material

by Demetrius Sherman

Peter Sunday searches for missing people and the trail leads to corpses. Unknown to the private investigator is that he's on his deadliest journey. A heart-pounding journey where he must face those that bullets cannot stop.

100 by 100: Stories in 100 Words

by ML Kennedy

100 by 100 is a collection of 100 stories that are each 100 words long. Mathematically, that makes each worth 1/10 of a picture. Some of these 0.1 pictures are scary, some are funny, some are funny and scary, while others are just odd. Possible uses include: Causing bad dreams Prompts for community college writing group Bedtime stories for children with narcolepsy Reading aloud to cats to curtail crippling loneliness Inspiring new videos on your unpopular YouTube Channel Conversation s... more

Thanksgiving for Werewolves and Other Monstrous Tales

by ML Kennedy

Quirky and disturbing, “Thanksgiving for Werewolves” tells the story of an independent pro wrestler trying to survive against a restaurant full of powerful skin-walkers. This new collection by ML Kennedy (author of The Mosquito Song) also features such stories as “Dinosaurs versus Cyborgs”, “Sally Says. . .”, “Quinquagesima”, "Tried to be the Pied Piper, ended up a Bridge Troll", the award winning flash fiction “I’ll Be Right Back”, and more!

The Eye of Zeus

by Alane Adams

Meet Phoebe Katz, the 12-year-old foster kid from New York City that’s been bounced around the system her entire life. Things happen around Phoebe, but it’s not like they’re her fault! At her newest school, Dexter Academy, she’s finally made two friends: Angie, whose father may or may not be in the mob, and Damian, a brainiac who can recite pages of useless facts. When a two-headed dog suddenly attacks her in the gymnasium, Phoebe is sure she’s losing her mind until a statue of Athena comes to... more

The Golden Horde

by Chris Kennedy

The slaughter is on! Across the galaxy, Human mercenaries are being ambushed, and an ever-increasing number of companies aren’t returning from their contracts. Someone even appears to be plotting the demise of the premier Four Horsemen companies, and disaster for the other three companies has only been averted by the narrowest of margins. Sansar Enkh, the president of The Golden Horde, knows her company is likely to be next, but has no idea who is behind the attacks, or when they will strike ... more

Builder: A short story

by Kate Jonuska

"For the first time in her life, she was truly and utterly alone..." Below the rock of Centuesse 16, in an asteroid cluster on the distant fringes of space, Phebs builds colonies for future human colony, a job she loves because it took her far, far away from humans in general. When tragedy strikes, the young builder is forced to take control of her life and confront her true place in the universe as her life of happy isolation begins to dissolve.

Cronica Acadia: Bend Sinister (Volume 1)

by C.J. Deering

Hearken back to a simpler time, when all your problems could be solved with an axe! The Keepers of the Broken Blade are a force to be reckoned with in the land of Acadia. Dangalf the wizard, Doppelganger the warrior, Elftrap the healer, and Nerdraaage the thief spend every day tackling new quests and defeating the most evil of monsters. Then they log off and get on with their humdrum lives. Acadia exists only in the massive multiplayer online role-playing game Cronica. Dangalf the wiz... more

Driven to the Hilt: The Deepest Cut

by D G Lamb

Already a social outcast because of his father’s alleged betrayal, young Joshua finds himself trapped outside the mining colony on the planet of Cypress Grove. He faces an unknown jungle infested with a creature so deadly that it has kept all humans confined inside their only settlement for decades. If he can manage to survive these alien wilds and find a way back into New Cincinnati, he will then have to brave the even darker dangers of the colony’s criminal underworld.

It ... more

The Sun Jumpers

by Ken Luber

Ten thousand years ago, two teenage lovers – Ty and Sita - set out with two friends searching through a deadly forest for a tribe to save their cave-dwelling clan. The blood of a beast and Sita’s potions scramble their psyches, hurtling the dark-skinned seekers from their families’ prehistoric world into technology-driven Twenty-first Century Los Angeles. A young filmmaker, Darren, shooting carpet commercials for his rich, overbearing father, mistakes the Stone Age kids for ... more

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