Will you be our valentine?What do you want for Valentine's Day? A heart-shaped box of chocolates? Dinner out with the love of your life? A romantic river cruise?How about a murder mystery? Betrayal? Revenge?We're delighted to bring you this anthology: A Gathering of Stories: Valentine's Day. Five Valentine's Day-themed stories by five gifted storytellers. Tales that will warm your heart...and get it pounding.Get your copy today!...

Portals appear up in all kinds of places and in all shapes and sizes, raising all kind of questions. Take a mystical tavern for instance, where life choices come into play - how do you get there? How do you learn how to use a portal if it is magical and you aren’t? If portals lead to standard destinations, what system governs them? Can you go through one intentionally? How do you escape one if you don’t know why you’re there? Five original fantasy stories explore these questions and more.

Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?How do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Going to a parade? Cashing in your four-leaf clovers? A glass of green beer?How about a romantic dinner? A pulse pounding adventure?We're thrilled to bring you this anthology: A Gathering of Stories: St. Patrick's Day. Five St. Patrick's Day-themed stories by five gifted storytellers. Tales that will warm the cockles of your heart...and get it pounding....

A howling ghost haunts a Wyoming small town tavern.Sassafras, a paranormal paralegal, arrives to evict the unwanted resident.She discovers the situation involves far more, including arranging conversations between a living human and the ghost.Can she find a way to mediate and resolve their issues?

A failed vampire conversion procedure results in a lawsuit.An investigation ensues into what went wrong.Who can solve this?The paranormal paralegal travels to Transylvania, working with a vampire and werewolf to find out.

Fendra, a researcher for the Museum of the Universe- Mechanical, moonlights as an investigator of archaic mechanical devices.She's tracking down the pieces of a strange device rumored to have far reaching consequences to planets.Word of her search and success attracts aliens trafficking in the dark market.Can Fendra find all the pieces before the other aliens and protect against those who would use the device for their own purposes?

Four original stories from the world of the Steampunk Seamstresses.A food shortage in the world after the wars. Can the seamstresses negotiate an exchange of magical sewing for seeds?An old grab-it machine, a broken down cowboy and something else. How will the seamstress obtain what she searches for?A broken down cowboy and a recovering woman meet on the road. Can they defeat the scavengers?The steampunk seamstress meets a sand genie with a child. The seamstres...

Josie reacts quickly when she finds her husband, Hal, lying on the barn floor unconscious. But he is already gone.Still reeling from his death and the questions surrounding it, Josie must pick up the pieces for running the 1,000 acre elephant refuse.Questions arise concerning a possible rare virus or other reason for death and the refuge is closed, leaving Josie with few options to pursue the truth.Could the newest elephant, Ruan, be the key to answering her questions?...

Henry hunts among discarded metal pieces where he discovers an unfamiliar and nonhuman scent.Tracking that smell leads to an unexpected path and confrontation.Follow Henry as he investigates the mystery.

Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine never seem to fit exactly in one genre or another. Part of the fun of the magazine.Totally Pulphouse, then, that the ten stories in this volume don't fit in the standard "time travel" category. Some read like pure science fiction, some explore time travel and the repercussions of time travel, and some explore "end of the world" themes.Closed out by a powerful look at the repercussions of one single detail about time and space and the ...

10 Tales of Unlikely PartnersThe Odd Couple, Remington Steele, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Kirk and Spock, any couple in Friends or The Big Bang Theory or...Thrown together by chance, assignment, or circumstance. Driven apart by skills, personality, or they just don’t trust each other. Until their lives are on the line and their only options are to cooperate—or die.Partnerships from the too perfect couple to the new met stranger. And when you...

Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, taxi driver Trisha Reede knows all the haunts and legends of the city built on the dead. After a long day of ferrying tourists, Trisha ejects a late evening out of line fare. But when he's found murdered, she questions her decision to let him out in such a seedy neighborhood. As the police investigation steers her way, she puts on the gas to solve the crime. As if she didn't already have enough baggage to deal with, newly dead Aunt Harriett shows up, h...