When their transport ship is ambushed, Commander X'xir must rely on the very species that he has scorned and rejected through his entire military career, humans, in order to save his life.Stephen Coghlan invites you to sample the universe of NOBILIS through a complete, stand-alone story complete at 3,500 words.NOBILIS Book 01: Seedling, is being published and released by Thurston Howl Publications.

Burned out and drugged up, Alec LeGuerrier spends his days faking it, barely ekeing out an existence while living in a haze of confusion and medicated mellowness. That is, until he stops a gang of nightmarish oddities from killing a strange young woman with indigo eyes.Dragged into the lands of the dreaming, he must come to terms with his brutal past and his grim imagined future in a land his body knows is real, but his mind refuses to acknowledge.

When news of her existence is leaked over the internet, a discarded teenage genetic weapon must embrace her unique characteristics and abilities in order to save herself from those who wish her destroyed.Stephen Coghlan invites you to sample a short story involving a character from his upcoming novel, GENMOS: Gathering Storms, which is being published and released by Thurston Howl Publications later this year.

The Frontier: the line between civilisation and the unknown where pioneers rely on a strong will and a dead eye not big city laws.A land where the sweat you shed makes a place yours, whatever lines the government draws on a map; where everyone knows putting on a badge doesn't make a sheriff better than everyone else; where the divide between legend and reality isn't always where it seems.From aging settlers who miss the days when the town only had one stree...

The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds' inner workings.It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlightening as nothingness itself. What is nothing? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void, to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo effect. And they disco...

When his student asks "What is Racism?" an elementary teacher must figure out how best to explain such a topic to not only the child, but the entire class.Mr. Hillary's Lesson is a story of a lesson that affected the lives of every student who endured it. Complete at less than 1,000 words, it is a flash fiction to be shared.

In recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of pilgrimage so as to consider aspects of both religious and non-religious travel that might be ...

Mr. Abramov is a kind and gentle old man. He supports as many charities as he can, smiles shyly at clients, and loves everyone with all the heart he has left, but when his strange collection of knick-knacks elicit a visit from new faces of an old threat, he is forced to encounter old hates one more time.Complete at under 1,300 words, Mr. Abramov's locket it a flash fiction that is meant to be shared.