Cat NoirFrom the acclaimed writer, Rob Vagle, a short noir tale.Cleo the cat rules over her territory at the back of Sherman’s Fish Market and avoids humans. Until one dark night when a couple of young thieves cross her territory. Cleo must face the human monster.A dark and gritty crime and animal tale.

Breaking Her StrideKaren runs when the sun goes down in the summer. She runs with just the heat radiating off the pavement. Karen loves to run and tonight her canal path run detours into terror.A horror slice of life tale.

A Vulture WaitsStunning crime author, Rob Vagle, spins a dark tale that will make your heart race.Guillermo Tavarez is more than a private detective. He is a fixer. A fijador. In Phoenix, the city in the desert, full of devils preying on the innocent. Guillermo has identified one of the men who had killed his father. The drive for vengeance fills his heart with darkness and Guillermo faces both the devils surrounding him and the devil inside of him...

Escape your own world into these wondrous and imaginative places in these six science fiction short stories by Rob Vagle.In a world . . .Where a new form of execution transforms more than just the condemned.Where a being made of gears and scales calculates a human life’s monetary worth.Where a stranger courts away mirror reflections of others, leaving one narcissist desperate andalone.Where the Earth holds what completes each of us to fill th...

Time travel in a variety of ways. Through a secret government project, through a time tunnel in the back of a school locker. With a watch, whether fancy or cheap. And in the final story, a man joins a corporation covered in dust. Five science fiction stories presented here come packed with wonder.

Ghost Lighter Than AluminumA ghost haunts Brian’s bicycle shop. Her name is Ally. And the two of them had been lovers before she died.She haunts him because she still loves him. When Brian seeks help with the haunting, he finds he cannot keep her in the dark. He too loves her still and there must be a way to bring her into the light.Part ghost story, part love story. A heartfelt tale of love and bicycles.

Tyrfing And The Sword SwallowerTanisha’s family comes from a long a long line of sword swallowers.When Charu, a fellow student, knocks on the door of her father’s home, he carries an elegant sheathed sword. A cursed sword, he claims, and calls it Tyrfing.Once unsheathed, Tyrfing will kill upon the wielder’s first stroke, and Tanisha’s life will never be the same.A suspenseful contemporary fantasy about envy, pride, and family tradition.

A Guillermo Tavarez Crime Short StoryPhoenix, the city in the desert.Private detective, Guillermo Tavarez's dark past catches up to him.On the outskirts of the city, as a haboob and the devils of his recent past descend, and threaten to consume him.

In a futuristic world where each human life is measured on scales.The counting begins when The Counter comes a calling.The Counter, a being made of gears and scales.One man's life hangs in the balance.

For All Your Head Needs Inside And Out.A Cut Beyond Barbershop always open for business. Everywhere, anytime. Turn your head after visiting and it blinks out of existence.A barbershop full of multitudes.Wherever the shop appears, the barbershop changes. A different name and a different barber—different gender, different nationality, different race.A Cut Beyond Barbershop Quartet includes stories about a woman looking for help facing her fear of death, a youn...

Magnitude And InsignificanceThe crowleys in their tiny ships landed in the backyards. Their ships no bigger than toys and the humans loom large and frightening. The colonization begins. If the humans will have them. If they bow down and serve. Otherwise, human extermination is on the table.The crowleys may be small, but they are mighty.A fun romp of an alien invasion.

Behold six fantasy short stories from the eye of Rob Vagle.Ranging from dragons to historical fantasy to super powers.Includes the popular Sky In The Ground.Read six fantasy stories by an author known for gently twisted tales.