The men have come to buy Delores Harper's dream. Actually, the diner was a dream she shared with her late husband. Since his passing almost a decade ago, the dream has lost its rosier qualities. However, one of these men desires more than a restaurant along a lonesome stretch of Oklahoma highway. He wants a keepsake Delores inherited from her grandmother.The wishing stone is just a necklace with a story attached, not a real thing. Delores knows magic isn't real. However, t...

Wishing WellWe've all heard the warning: Be careful what you wish for... you just might get it.If you had a wish, how careful would you be?Would you regret it?Or would your wildest dreams come true?Whatever you do, make sure you wish well...19 tales of wishes that came true...just maybe not in the way expected.Featuring stories by: Emily Martha Sorensen, Kay Hanifen, Sylvia Son, Kara Race-Moore, Laura G. Kaschak, Remy Allen, A...

Come aboard the All Powerful, join the very rich and the very famous in a joyful escape from the newest sickness that's coursing through nations and lives worldwide. Escape Red Lungs in style. In luxury. Coddled and served by a cadre of young, attractive and well-trained staff.Red lungs, Covid-21, the Dreaming Disease. It starts with precognitive dreams, spins you into unreality along with the sniffles until it floods your lungs with blood. But if you're rich enough, you m...

50% of the cover price from each sale of this eBook will go to the Red Cross for Tropical Storm Harvey disaster relief.A family trapped in a resort discover the hurricane delivered waters pouring down around them may possess strange powers. A terrible secret breeds in a dark, sealed off bomb shelter tucked beneath a soup kitchen. A factory owner in near future China finds his honor and emotions tested by an industrial accident. A warning appears on a phone screen urging a man to ab...

Steel whispers secrets to the men and women who wield it. Vasily the Voyvodin knows some of these and is eager to learn more. His journeys have taken the warrior through frosty mountains to sweltering jungles to remote isles, and he has crossed paths with beast gods, demons, and vilest science-sorcery. His first three adventures now appear between a single set of covers for the first time.Days of High Adventure reveals three meaty tales of a fighting man making his way through a ra...

"We'll try again. What choice have we?"In the village near Dyer's Hill, no children have been carried to term in years. The land is the most fertile in the known world, yet a curse hangs over it, affecting all who venture to it, live on it, till its soil. Sometimes the greatest fertility comes from greatest tragedies.Losing her child to the curse hanging over Dyer's Hill nearly destroyed the peasant girl Liesa. Now, she has one chance to put this dark magic to rest. On the ...

It's been five years since Delores and Bull discovered a second chance at love … and youth. A wish for long life and happiness has left them transformed by a magical power neither understands. Years have been shaved off … and they do not seem to be coming back.Shadows On a MiracleUnfortunately, using that power has triggered unintended consequences. A stalker from another land is coming for them. Her mission is to reclaim the wishing stone. She will stop at...

Q is for Quantum is the seventeenth book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. In this book you will find a collection of thirteen mind-bending tales from some of the most skilled independent horror authors writing today. From time-travel to space exploration, parallel worlds to futuristic technology gone wrong, Q is for Quantum brings an unsettling selection of sci-fi horror tales that will have you questioning the reality of this dimension.

A tribute to the glorious slasher movies of the 1980s.Featuring:Evisceration Liberation by Jay BowerDisassembler 3: The Revenge Of Billy Burns by Justin CawthorneFat Fran by Kay HanifenCuster's Last Stand by D.W. HitzHe Hunts at Night in the Boneyard Bog by Brett Mitchell KentBorrowed Symbols by Aaron E. LeeFather's Day by Kevin McHughSkulls on the Shelf by Carl R. MooreDirty Little Family Secrets by Daniel R. ...

P is for Poltergeist is the sixteenth book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. In this book you will find a collection of thirteen haunting tales from some of the most gifted independent horror authors writing today. From twists on haunted houses to shocking family revelations, bizarre beings to tragic tales, P is for Poltergeist brings a varied selection of ghostly horror tales that will have you jumping at every noise.

The first volume of a brand new quarterly series of storytelling excellence, Pulptastic Adventures Quarterly will tackle a new theme each month from a variety of stories. This premier issue examines Intersections between the fantastic and the mundane, between the real world and the cinematic one, between cosmic reaching science fiction and mind-blasting cosmic horror. These stories introduce characters caught in the midst of a transition and delivers pulse pounding plots.In C. C. B...

Ten years after the world ended, mankind is poised to ascend once more from the rubble . . . In the zombie riddled warzones that compose the devastated United States, the living dead are not the only threat against life and liberty. Madmen, slavers, raiders, and warlords struggle for total power in the shattered world. Chief among these are the zealot legions who swear fealty to the maniacal Dr. Fowler, a power mad lunatic who uses science the way terrorists use dirty suici...