Timmy can't get a break. First, his parents are wrecking their marriage with zero reluctance to use him in the process. Second, he's got a monster under his bed, stuck there as a result of him losing a story duel with Joshua. Unfortunately Joshua is about to blow him off, not wanting to waste time with someone incapable of creating a nerve-racking, virtualized story. Timmy isn't worthy. Or is he?

She sought her place, potential and purpose. Who knew a killer guarded them inside a whirling cone of havoc and death?Raven hated suffocating. So after nineteen years of relentless maternal smothering she fled from lifeless vacuum to utopia, at least Austin's reasonable approximation thereof, where a girl might discover herself and have some fun. Freewheeling turns to awe when she becomes an instrumental part of cutting-edge research that, with sufficient and dangerous determinatio...

When time runs out, people get desperate. That's why Shauna volunteered for the suicide mission against the alien Zets. Time was nearly up for the human survivors of a centuries-old war, so why not? Yearning for revenge leads to desperate measures. But then again, so does love. Somewhere in the intersection of those two powerful motivators, Shauna & Chuyen test the limits of their desires.All proceeds from the sale of titles in the Coming Together: Off World series will benefit the...

Like your science fiction / fantasy on the darker side?Do you like to read about personal struggles and challenges made all the more difficult by technology or something really bizarre or fantastic?Do you feel stories don't always have to wrap up all cheery and warm, with extra rice pudding and happily ever after for everyone?Me too.Here are six of my dark sci-fi tales purchased and published by e-zines from 2007 through 2011 plus one previously unpublished ...

I have succeeded in one thing at least. I have secured myself entry to whatever they want to call it these days; the nuthouse, the asylum, the treatment centre, the house in the hills. The destination that nobody wants to go to and that certainly no one ever speaks of having been.I am being sectioned into The Crossroads"Flick, do you want to really know what I think? I think you are telling the truth! I think you are right. I think if you could see more, you could work it a...

From the dark and twisted imagination of author William Todd Rose comes twofree e-books guaranteed to thrill and delight. In each volume lies a mini-collection of stories which gives the reader a unique peek into the mind of the writer The Google+ Insider's Guide named as one of their top 32 authors to follow.Open the Box of Darkness to delve into a nightmare world of the macabre. Within these pages lurk refugees from a madman's nightmares. From traditional terrors such as vampires...

Nine Women. Nine Stories. And nothing ordinary about them. From the slightly askew mind of Regan Wolfrom comes this collection of hilariously dark tales of love, death, and horrible timing. Heather Smythe Pretty. Shy. About as lapsed as a Catholic can get. Heather's trapped in the a cult of killer succubi with a taste for East Hollywood douches. ("High Times at the Sixth Annual Succubus Sisters Garage a...

Jack is a rebellious thirteen year old boy, who just wants to hang out with his new high school friends, but his mom’s curfew is restricting his freedom. When foreign soldiers invade his hometown, cutting off the power, communications, and any chance of escape, Jack and his friends have to figure out how to survive. With no way to contact his father, they have no idea if he is safe or one of the people who disappeared from their homes. All Jack wants is to get his dad back, but his mom doe...

In the Sunset Desert of Alpha Centauri A Four are three immense structures. For nearly thirty years, these massive mines have used United States of the Zodiac prisoners to dig uraninite out of the ground by hand. No-one escapes from Alpha Four. Once you are sent there, established wisdom considers you as good as dead.It's time for Ant and Cleo to prove established wisdom wrong...

A high tech software and medical conglomerate is capitalizing on decades of advancement and the evolution of medical and computer science, which may enable the seamless merging of the human mind with the modern electronic world. Created and born in a laboratory, seven-year old Toby Crawford is an engineered test subject for new research on human simulation and artificial intelligence. Toby is a genius with a photographic memory, otherwise enviable gifts; Toby was born with a limited short-...

College sophomore Bryn Dawson is a self-proclaimed poster child for normal. However, the day William Hayward enters her life, normalcy is the last thing Bryn will be able to count on if she wants to be with him. Too mysterious and appealing to be good for a girl, Bryn feels drawn to him in a way that seems out of her control—as if fate is orchestrating it.Despite every red flag and warning siren going off in her head telling her not to, Bryn falls hard for William, knowing he's cat...

F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most notable and public American writers during the Roaring Twenties, and well after he had flamed out both professionally and personally, there was a revival of interest in his works, especially The Great Gatsby, which is now considered one of the Great American Novels. His works continue to be viewed as the epitome of the Jazz Age lifestyle, with Fitzgerald writing what he lived.