Solarian Space Marines encounter a city on a desert planet that was supposed uninhabited. Their mission to survey the planet for a raw material colony is scrapped for staying alive in the face of threats from all directions. Will they succeed in keeping themselves one step ahead of an enemy bent on destroying them at all costs?

Why did Johnny have to have a paranoid freak for a dad? While other kids play video games, Johnny is helping his dad build a bunker that no one's ever going to need.Until the day they do.

Two cousins.One fortune.And one doesn't want to share...When a distant relative leaves a massive fortune behind with the condition that the two co-heirs cohabit a haunted mansion for a limited time, it should be a win-win situation.But will Harold hold out when his loser cousin uses a witch doctor to make sure that his worst nightmares come true?A 7200-word supernatural horror short story. Warning: spiders and adult language.

When a ghost haunts the mountain getaway of a doctor recovering from a gunshot wound, he thinks he's going crazy until he starts to dig deeper and finds the truth. Will he be able to find her body and the killer and bring the murderer to justice, or will the killer succeed in making the doctor the next victim?A supernatural thriller short story of murder and mystery.

Why did Johnny have to have a paranoid freak for a dad? While other kids play video games, Johnny is helping his dad build a bunker that no one's ever going to need. Until the day they do. A short science fiction story of young adult dystopia with a survivalist setting.

WHEN flesh-eating zombies take over the streets, Dex Reynolds must find a way to survive the onslaught and the aftermath...and find out if the love of his life, his soon-to-be ex-wife, is safe. Will he be able to find her, fight off the zombies, guard her against predatory human slime, and convince her to let him take her to a secured farm he's prepared against all eventualities, or will she break things off him for once and for all?Outrunning Zombies: Love. Guns. Zombies. Survivin...

What kind of person works as a mercy killer? What makes a death a mercy killing, instead of murder?A 4,500 word literary short story.

A woman alone, in a cottage in the woods, and an old woman alone, needs to beware who she lets into her home...A short story retelling a classic tale - with a twist.

It's love at first fight...When journalist and rising thriller writer Serena Masterson meets Nick Bennington, a high-powered CEO, they cross swords and strike sparks from the first time they meet.Will she be able to resist falling for him when well-intended matchmakers, an increasingly menacing stalker, and an embezzler turned violent throw them together over and over again?

One change.One chance.If you had a chance to change one thing in your life, what would you do over?One man gets a chance to answer that question, a chance for a second time around...or does he?John Parelli, estranged from his wife and the son he loves, gets a second chance of a lifetime. What will he do with it?One change.One man.One shot.

It looks like easy money to grad student Matt Diaz: go to an old house and grab a red leather book.How hard could that be?Payment: a thousand cash, wired into your account, with a few hundred dollars in good faith money to start.Once he enters the house, he discovers that getting in is going to be a lot easier than getting out, and he's going to have to find a way around a curse, a hitman, and a greedy killer to do it.A 5700-word supernatural suspense short ...

When lives unravel, who pays the price?Three women share their work, their lives, and their silence: the burden of power weighs heavy on them all.A literary fantasy short story.