Cohthel should have visited Father's grave sooner. Because now it's missing.His mother makes excuses for the absent grave, which Cohthel accepts, but his best friend won't. He convinces Cohthel his father must still be alive, and Cohthel runs away from school, family, and friends to find the truth. He needs the truth because Mother won't remarry and without a father's guidance Cohthel fears he'll never choose an apprenticeship, will live with Mother the rest of his life, won't full...

A collection of poems and short stories encompassing the genres of fantasy, horror, humor, thriller, inspirational, and religious.

(Erotica) Jantella has been crushing hard on a cowboy named Michael for three years but has been too shy to pursue it beyond that. That is, until tonight when she receives an invite to a special kind of rodeo where cowboys last longer than eight seconds. And Michael will be there. But blindfolded and told she can't talk, she must rely on a random number she draws which will determine if the cowboy she pairs with tonight will be Michael...or someone else.

(short story fantasy) When a court wizard is blamed for murdering the king, his own life narrows into dwindling seconds as he works a spell to stay alive because he's the only one who knows the truth about who actually killed the king...and why.

When Roscoe gets an eerie phone call in Utah traffic, questions - and guns - are raised about his true parentage and why Pakistani terrorists are suddenly interested in a nobody like him.

Eight very normal, typical, cliche heroes quest out to determine which one of them is the real hero.

The stakes of the game in the small-town bar are higher than Carly and her friends realize when a mysterious biker puts his quarter on their pool table.This 1100-word paranormal tale is a 'short-short' story from the "Monsters in the Machines" collection by Roh Morgon. An excerpt from her novel "Watcher: Book I of The Chosen" is included.

Their mission is no less the fate of humanity itself. A junkie down on her luck, a tycoon on a death trek through a desert, a professor who says science has an answer for everything, and a crippled athlete who has lost his will to live. But how can they triumph?

Step into the spaces between dreams and decisions, forgiveness and forgetting, life and something beyond. In this quiet, haunting collection, characters search for meaning in strange places. Each story offers a choice. Each step may be the one that changes everything.

Chesrie and Kelcie lost their mother when they were young. Without a father to turn to, they had to find their own way to survive and became thieves. But several years of such dishonest living have worn on their consciences, particularly Kelcie's, and so they have been saving up to move far away into the mountains and start over. All they have to do is finish a string of robberies along an archipelago just off the western coast of Eretsfel. One strange island that lies on the western edge ...

Faya - My eyes close and I brace for the pain. Except it doesn’t come. It always comes. Wait for it my mind tells me, making me brace some more. I hate waiting for it, when that happens it’s always so much worse.Crane - The job was to prevent her from testifying. I’ve already been paid because my ass isn’t moving before the cash is in place.That’s right, I have a spotless reputation. A hitman who gets the job done. Any job, any tim...

"The Desecrator" is an original short story from the Draegaran Empire, by bestselling author Stephen Brust. This is a tale of the Hawklord Daymar, and of a particular Morganti blade. Vlad Taltos fans will enjoy new insight into Stephen Brust's fantasy series.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.