Have you ever wondered what happens when the children go to bed at night and what keeps them safe from the Night Terrors that are under their bed?The Guardians keep them safe from the darkness and shadow under the bed.The Teddy Bear Stories are what have happened at night when the Teddy Bear Guardians stand guard over their young charges.Night Terrors want the two things that they can not have: The warmth of the human cubs and revenge on their creators.The Guar...

Sam Slate has finished his training to become a Marine—one of the elite guardians of humanity that guard the borders of human space. He is no longer Sam: now he is call sign Eight.Yet none of the training he went through has prepared him for what life on the outer reaches of space would really be like. He is supposed to be cold and without attachment, but the rest of the section isn’t acting like he was led to believe they would.His combat scores are poor and despite his be...

From a creepypasta horror farm to a bullish love tale and from the bloody metal deck of the ESS Arclight to superhero octopus food trucks, you can transform your shortest stolen moments into utter delights with this diverse collection of 33 flash fiction stories.Commuting to work? Grabbing a quick coffee? Each story tells a complete tale in but a few short minutes with the added promise of a lifelong introduction to new indie writers.You never know, you mig...

24 Extremely Short Halloween Stories for your Briefest MomentsFrom a Hillary Clinton stripper to mythical beast-women in the harsh Scandinavian tundra and from an unusual band of steadfast teddy bears to the last man in zombie-occupied Chicago, fill your briefest moments with pulse-pounding frights and off-beat chuckles with this collection of 24 flash fiction stories.Commuting to work? Grabbing a quick coffee? Each story tells a complete t...

Have you ever wondered what happens when the children go to bed at night and what keeps them safe from the Night Terrors that are under their bed?The Guardians keep them safe from the darkness and shadow under the bed.The Teddy Bear Stories are what stories that have happened at night when the Teddy Bear Guardians stand guard over their young charges.Night Terrors want the two things that they can not have: The warmth of the human cubs and revenge on their creators.

From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.There's even an alien puppy.

Ron and his friends made it out of the Virtual Reality competition and did well. Now though they have to deal with the fall out.Everything seems changed and different. Washed out and boring.But they don’t have time to worry about that. The second alien invasion is now inbound. The robots and their masters learned from the last time and are carrying out a larger invasion with better planning.Ron and crew will have to survive the impact of the meteors that are the pre...

Second book in the Zombie Transference Series.Warrant Officer Wagner and the rest of the survivors have just spent the last few days after they arrived in a strange alternate reality Earth seemingly stuck back in the 1950’s trying to escape from the truth of a zombie apocalypse.Driving toward a distant city where the military is holding out they must find that site to have any chance of escape.Yet the trip is dangerous and while the infected are easy to understand the...

Investing in residential real estate can be difficult. The idea sounds great, yet where do you start?Why invest in real estate? It’s simple: capital gains, and someone else pays your mortgage.This book will set you up so that you are ready to build up a deposit and you’ll know what to look for in that first property, as well as offer some suggestions for when you are negotiating the purchase. Whether you’re young and single or older with a family, investing in residential r...

Science Fiction and the Scientists lied…..There was no golden age of discovery. No FTL or Galactic Federations. At first contact we found out how wrong we had been about the future.Then a failed alien invasion had crushed our reborn hope.Tim grew up a normal kid. He went to school and spent time with friends. After all ‘work hard, play hard’ is the way people live now.All Tim had ever wanted was a nice entry level management position somewhere. Pref...

The future is not a shiny beacon of hope and good times. The predictions of a glorious golden age with the development of star drives and a massive exodus of humanity to the stars and a frontier atmosphere were all false.Humanity was rocked by a brutal alien invasion that left a billion dead and many traumatized. The shock was made worse by the understanding that true intergalactic war as pictured in any sort of entertainment was not supposed to be possible. But it had happened.

Science Fiction and the Scientists lied…..There was no golden age of discovery. No FTL or Galactic Federations. At first contact we found out how wrong we had been about the future.Then a failed alien invasion had crushed our reborn hope.Murderer. That's what they called Sam and he had done the crime but with good reason.The only thing saving him from the death sentence was mandatory testing that identified him as a top choice for M...