This anthology contains six short stories about weirdness and horror, and how life changes when weird things become normal in your eyes.'On the Redeye Express': It's about an hour or two into the ride when Nick realises that people are vanishing from the bus. He's too tired to question it, and too worried that his girlfriend might dump him at the end of this trip - but when it keeps happening, what's he going to do about it?'Metatext Otis': One morning, Otis Blincher woke u...

Who's settling accounts for the dead?Two years after his last adventure, obituarist Kendall Barber is still trying to make amends for his past by cleaning up the online presence of Port Virtue's dead. Business isn't great, so he jumps at the chance to work for the estate of a racist demagogue, while at the same time accepting an under-the-table job to find out who hacked the social media accounts of a police captain.Who's playing games with the living?But nothing is...

The cleaning lady eats time. The manager mourns his multi-gendered parent. A pirate radio DJ listens for God. An accountant prepares to kill again. And that's only in four rooms of the Hotel Flamingo, where the room service is terrible and reality flakes and crumbles around the edges.Come to a part of town where the dealers meet, where the forgotten people hide, where reality cracks and peels like cheap wallpaper. Where normal is a dirty word.And while you're here, come sta...

Social media undertaker Kendall Barber has discovered something about his new subject - an email set up to be sent after his death.What is in the email - and why is his client, the dead man's brother, so eager to find out?This short story is a mini-sequel to the crime novella 'The Obituarist', but it can also be read as a stand-alone story.

What happens to your Facebook account when you die?Kendall Barber calls himself an obituarist – a social media undertaker who settles accounts for the dead. If you need your loved one's Twitter account closed down or one last blog post to be made, he'll take care of it, while also making sure that identity thieves can't access forgotten personal data. It's his way of making amends for his past, a path that has seen him return to the seedy city of Port Virtue after years in exile.

A collection of nine flash fiction stories, each 1000 words long or less, costing... well, you get the idea.Nine Flash Nine. See, it makes sense.The stories are:* For Sale, Baby Heads, Never Worn* Murder, She Rocked* Boy* Dear Penthouse Forum: I F----d Godzilla* Black Veil and Gloves* Got the Horn* Ghost (Moustache) Story* High School Methical* Giant Spiders Cannot ExistSome stories are serious, some are...

In the future, the Earth is still recovering from alien invasion, conquest and liberation; civilisation is shattered, the sky is broken and the world will never be the same.But Nadger doesn't understand any of that. All he knows is that it's time to hide before the other kids find him!A flash-fiction story about living in the aftermath of invasion, the first in the irregular 'Broken Sky' series.

Kendall Barber is having a very bad day.His obituarist business is failing, his relationship is on the rocks and he's pretty sure one of his friends has been murdered. All of that is bad enough – and then his office explodes. Kendall's past has come back to haunt him, and it's coming with guns, bombs and a truckload of regrets.It gets worse from there.Before the week is out, Kendall will be beaten, burn, torn up and hospitalised. He'll have to alienate his closest a...

Dunny thought that he was onto a good thing when he stole that cab and used it to rob old-age pensioners.But today he may have picked up the wrong passenger...A short crime story about payback and bad decisions.

When Mister Smith looks out the window of a plane and sees a man standing on a cloud, nothing else in life seems to matter as much anymore.A flash fiction story about wonder and priorities.

What caused the recent explosion on the 86 tram?Who were the people who witnessed the event?And how does the omniscient viewpoint of a narrator affect the lives of those characters it describes?A short story about intersecting lives and the expectations of narrative.

You come home one night, worn out by another day of hard work and not falling back into bad habits, to find the woman you love has left you. What now?A short story about addictions that never quite dry out and wounds that never heal.