About the Book:The essence of The Seven Deadly Sins (Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth and Wrath) are captured in this anthology of flash fiction (fiction of extreme brevity) stories!Written by four amazing writers, their flurry of words and polished sentences reveal each of the 'sins' in a manner unique to each author. Some stories reveal the entrapment in a single scene, others exposed the characters’ fall from grace over a longer period of time.

Writers everywhere were issued a challenge—write an epic flash fiction story in under 1000 words.But there was a twist, it couldn’t be just any story. It had to tell the tale of a creature that haunts the night; one that lurks in the shadows; one that hides in dark places.Authors from the USA, UK and Canada met the challenge.From the submissions received fourteen writers were selected; some with already established writing careers, others who are breaking out and th...

Would your characters try to swindle a dragon out of his treasure? Perhaps they’d try to steal the fastest spaceship in the galaxy? Or are they after something a little more sinister that’s in need of taking? Where ever and when ever they take place, the stories of these Thieves and Scoundrels will take hold of your imagination and ransom it back to you.“Thieves and Scoundrels” holds 20 stories from 18 established and break out authors from all over the English speaking world; USA,...

Absolute XPress is proud to present it’s fourth Flash Fiction Challenge anthology – “Inhuman”.The Theme:There are other beings out there. Demons, fae, aliens, robots and more. Creatures that have been watching us for a long time. They know us. For this challenge, write from the point of view of something “Inhuman”; an exterior point of view that is able to see what it really means to be Human.This was a hard challenge, no doubt about it, but 18 autho...

They burned his world to the ground. Now he’ll infiltrate theirs.When Will Stark returns home on his birthday, he finds his life in ruins—his house engulfed in flames, his family gone, and a team of professional killers waiting to finish the job. But Will survives—and is pulled into a secret war between rival factions of a powerful, centuries-old society known as the Aliomenti.These people possess gifts beyond imagination. And they see Will as more than jus...