Modern master of multiple genres, Robert J. McCarter captivates readers with stories featuring stunning settings, relatable characters (even aliens), and fascinating plots.When Tef, a two-hearted alien anthropologist equipped with the latest "skinsuit" technology, falls for April, a human journalist, everything changes. True intimacy requires honesty, but what will April do if she sees the true Tef?This quirky romance of alien love will touch your hearts and put a smile on ...

THESE LADIES AREN'T WAITING.Twenty bestselling and award-winning authors offer enchanting tales of women and girls forging paths through darkness and peril. Cleverness, curiosity, and determinations make worthy heroines in fantastical new worlds.Featuring stories by:Jody Lynn NyeKatie CrossRobyn BennisRaven OakFrog and Esther JonesDawn VogelMatt YoungmarkLee FrenchConnie J. JaspersonJeff...

What happens when you take the fertile imagination of a science fiction and fantasy writer and apply that to modern, contemporary stories? In these pages, Robert J. McCarter does just that, applying the wit, compassion, and character-oriented approach of his sci-fi work to stories a little closer to home with stunning results.From what happens after "happily ever after" reaches its inevitable conclusion, to a tender coming of age story (or two), to a mouse-eyed perspective on human...

A story from an unusual apocalypse.The aliens came in peace and we met them with violence. After we attacked them, we thought they left for good, but the day the alien's gossamer threads fall, everything changes. Now the dead become gossamer ghosts, haunting the living, intent on balancing the scales of their lives.In "Gossamer Threads" eleven-year-old Ronny struggles to find a place in this new world. After his mother dies and turns into a gossamer ghost a...

A world within our world. A secret tunnel hidden under the Eiffel Tower. A small central sun at the center of our planet warming those lands in the hollow earth. Seas with no horizon because of the concave nature of those lands. Adventures beyond the imagination of the modern man at the dawning of the twentieth century.In 1889, seasoned explorer Marco Walker descends into the hollow earth on a desperate mission to rescue Jules Verne on the behest of the Hollow Earth Society. He fin...

When the alien telepathic corgi known as Angelica Huston saves middle-aged geek Ashton Bach’s life, they embark on the time travel adventure of a lifetime and everything changes.With Angelica, Ashton defends the most powerful technology in the universe from desperate alien cats in hopes of undoing his greatest regret. But when Ashton discovers the truth about his past, he will do anything to turn back time, forget about time travel and alien dogs and cats, and return to his old lif...

Private investigator and Arizona native Conner Bright tries to hide from his past with a b-movie quality Australian accent, alligator skin boots, and a bowie knife strapped to his side, but it always seems to catch up to him.When a little girl swears she saw her great uncle murdered by a purple unicorn, Conner takes the case expecting to face nothing more than a little girl’s overactive imagination. But in this short story, Conner must confront his past and put his life on the line...

Life and death are not that far apart...What happens when we die? Viki Dobos knows. Her job is to help people talk to their dearly departed. She draws the deceased, and they come to life on the page… briefly. When a rich Russian man hires her and whisks her away to Hawaii, everything changes. The rich man wants her to do the forbidden, and a handsome man she meets on the beach needs her more than he knows. Viki will have to confront her past, face her fears, and ri...

Read a story per day from the end of November to January first...or binge the entire collection. Stories that center around holidays from American Thanksgiving and Black Friday to St. Nicholas Day, Hanukkah to Boxing Day, and of course, the worldwide biggies, Christmas, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day. Award-winning and bestselling writers like Ron Collins, Annie Reed, Robert Jeschonek, and 28 others explore holidays in three different genres--mystery, romance, and light fantasy.

Meeting a Girl at the End of the WorldWhen Woody Beckman meets June Medina, neither expects the adventures that will follow. Dedicated go-it-alone survivors, they've learned not to trust anyone in post-zombie-apocalypse Arizona.What starts out as two lonely people on a simple hike turns into a race against time while Woody tries to save June from something much worse than zombies: the dreaded psychotic, petty, wannabe warlord.Against all odds, can W...

Falling in love and saving the world...When Nik Nichols (aka Neutrinoman) and Licia Lopez (aka Lightningirl) first touch, electrons and neutrinos fly. But neither wants a relationship, both overwhelmed by their new superpowers, keeping their identities secret, and dealing with the demands of the military.But now, with a huge planet killing asteroid hurtling towards the Earth, can they master their powers, save the world, and fall in love?From the au...

Modern master of multiple genres, Robert J. McCarter captivates readers with stories featuring stunning settings, relatable characters, and fascinating plots.Jeffery Smith is a wholly unremarkable man, until his cancer diagnosis forces him to face his mortality and learn how to really live.This touching, near-future science fiction story of fears faced and dreams realized will stick with you long after the last page.