Imagine living with a bug that clings to the back of your skull. Only you can feel it. Is it really there? Are you insane? Join Blake on his journey in search of this very truth. Read 'BUG' and decide for yourself. A weird short story by James Pollard.

What If There's a Pattern to the Madness?More and more people are reported being obsessed with unusual tasks and tested positive for rabies. But when an investigator finds a pattern to the madness and tries to tell people, will anyone listen?Do you want to know what’s next for the inexperienced investigator? Do you wanna meet the crazies? Then read this thrilling patchwork of the weirdest bio-scare ever encountered.From Scif...

A young family returning from a trip from the Gold Coast finds themselves in a life or death fight against a deranged maniac after stopping at a rest area.With the family of four attempting to out-wit, out-last, and out-smart their attacker will they make it out alive?This is the new age of Australian horror with Stop, Revive, Survive? the first short-story in the three part trilogy as Australia's rest stops become over run with faceless, deranged killers who take no prison...

David Lavender is a man with a talent for making bad decisions. In his fortieth year on planet Earth, a dangerous restlessness overwhelms him, and, as his marriage crumbles, and a dispute with his neighbor escalates, he responds to theses crises in his life with characteristic folly. Frozen out by his mysteriously indifferent wife, Lilijana. Baited by his cantankerous stepson, Tomo, and alternatively supported and rebuked by his two best mates, Matt and Chalkie, will David successfully neg...

When two jobless sisters start prepping their kid brother for high school they land six paying students and their money problems are solved. Now they have bigger issues on their hands as the teens unload a ton of personal baggage and boyfriend problems get thrown in the mix. It's a summer filled with disaster but they find a silver lining through friendships made and memories gained along the way.

Tom, a 50-year-old bachelor embarks on a journey to prepare him to move over into the Afterlife. With the help of a few life-long friends, and finding his soul mate along the way, he also attempts to save the last Earth's existence from Solar Storms that are ravaging the Earth once again. Is he able to slow the storms down in time? Does he get to the Chile Desert Observatory safely? Does New York hold him back? Does his newfound love for Cindy interfere with him remaining focused?

It's a sunny Monday morning. Fred -- a green, speckled, 7-year-old bullfrog -- woke up extra early. It's a special day today!"First day of school!" he yelled, as he hurriedly hopped downstairs."Have some breakfast, Fred," Mrs. Green said, smiling at her son."Yum!" Fred exclaimed. "Worms!"He finished his breakfast, kissed his Mom and Dad goodbye and quickly headed out the door."Hi, Fred!" Nia called out from the back of the classroom. "We saved a seat...

Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! Agents of ISIS is the 21st century re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the forces of chaos and destruction.With humanity scattered across the galaxy on hundreds of worlds, the Empire is the only force for order across the stars. Without it, interstellar conflicts would bring chaos and billions of deaths.B...

Tess Darling is a ballsy blonde TV producer. She's also an inadvertent sleuth: Aided by her hunky but hapless cameraman Miller, Tess digs up the truth whenever a shoot turns deadly...Short story, The Flood, sees Tess and Miller despatched through a vicious storm - to film the launch of a remote, celebrity spa hotel. When noxious owner Noah Dellow is found strangled in his study, they discover he was not so much a 'friend' to the stars as a blackmailer - the assembled guests are his...

The unimaginable happens when a pair of high school teens let loose their prized class project. A fashionable humanoid robot worthy of the highest levels of admiration. Taking on a mind of its own, their machines sets off on a course of its own that will eventually lead to internationally renowned incidents of immense proportions!

"People don't just create diseases to wipe out nations," I argue."The bubonic plague, typhoid fever, smallpox, the bird flu—would you like me to continue?" His voice rises as if he's determined to make me understand, "They're created in labs, then given to people to see who is strong enough to survive them. They're trying to limit the amount of people in the world." I watch him stand and turn for the door. "There's a lot about your parents that you don't know and the sooner you rea...

Musicians have multi-person jam session with a range of instruments; I had a solo jam session with a range of writing prompts. While in a homeschool writing course, I had to write a story a week for 36 weeks, and that was pretty cool. The result was a 36 story anthology. Take the survey at the end of the book to vote on which short story should be expanded into a book. Also look at the link to the writing course to see which short stories were the prompts to the stories I wrote. Let yourse...