Guns: A girl’s birthday wish comes true when she gets to spend an afternoon on a manhunt with her lawman father.Gods: An old man discovers his crops aren't the only dead things on his farm.Robots: A heartless machine built for compassion malfunctions, leading its engineer on a race to fix the corruption before it spreads.Human nature in the face of impossible choices is at the core of each post-apocalypse, undead resurgence, and domestic automation gone wrong in Gun...

Write your own obituaryErase your own life historyThe end of ourselves approaches us fastLaugh as our problems fade into the pastThe four interlinking stories of All Our Forgotten Futures present a puzzle box that slowly reveals the horrors waiting within. The impossible choices forced upon each person profoundly affect others miles and years away. Selflessness has its limits in the face of paranoia, terror, and the unknowable where even the smallest indecision...

The end of the world in five minutes or less! Three dozen tales of bad people and bad decisions across the galaxy or maybe just on their lunch break. Brady Koch (Guns, Gods & Robots) boils the short story format to it's essence and offers science fiction, horror, and criminal misdeeds in these bite sized tales.

Joseph's Sunday morning routine of church, beer and solitude is interrupted by a ragged screaming coming from the the far side of his farm land. What he finds there will challenge his resolve in ways he hasn't faced since losing his wife or confronting the horrors of the Korean War.

Brady Koch's abbreviated murders, tiny apocalypses, and weird happenstance are all collected in Flash! Vol. 1. These 50 stories are exercises in horror, sci-fi, crime and the unusual all distilled down to the essential components of storytelling. Cannibals, criminals, and the curious will all find something to like in these brief, dark tales.

The end of the world in five minutes or less! Three dozen tales of bad people and bad decisions across the galaxy or maybe just on their lunch break. Brady Koch (Guns, Gods & Robots) boils the short story format to it's essence and offers science fiction, horror, and criminal misdeeds in these bite sized tales.

Lamar devoted every waking moment of his last months of life secretly tinkering with a mysterious contraption in his garage. After he passes away, his wife must learn how to live alone and keep herself from letting the recently discovered machine spiral her life even further out of control.

In this short story, told from each character's perspective, Vayl and Jaz spend a romantic evening together. This story takes place after the events of Bitten to Death.

Enjoy hours of laughter with hilarious questions for kids that get harder as the book goes on. Who will win the competition for the best answers? Who will outsmart everyone?Laugh and learn with 160+ questions designed to make kids giggle, think, and figure out who's the wittiest (and silliest) of all! Would You Rather? Made You Think! Edition provides endless hours of fun for eight- to twelve-year-olds who love a challenge--and a good laugh.Wou...

Some jobs are dirty. Some jobs are easy. But in Hows Business? 101 Hilarious Jokes That Work For Kids - Clever Jokes That Will Have You Laughing Out Loud About Funny Jobs and Careers all the jobs are funny! You'll laugh out loud when you find out how these new business are going. The elevator business has its ups and downs. Repairing chairs? It'll keep you on the edge of your seat! These clever and unexpected twists will have you looking at work in a newhilariousway!

Quick fiction for readers on the go!Quick fiction for readers on the go! Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction is a tantalizing collection of 88 short-short stories custom-picked for the Bathroom Reader aficionado. We scoured the nation for talented writers and asked them to send us their best quick reads. The result: mysteries, horror, sci-fi, adventure, plenty of laughs--and a few gasps--in these startling short stories. They’re li...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by Keffy R.M. Kehrli ("HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!!") and Ken Liu ("Ghost Days"), along with SF reprints by Constance Cooper (...