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?

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.

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.

Includes these stories:One Last Look: science fictionThe City in the Desert: military science fictionFray: literary fantasySpider-Cursed: a supernatural shortLe Fay: literary fantasyBlack Magic MoneyDeath Angel: literary fantasyDo-Over: literary fantasyGhost Girl: supernatural suspenseOutrunning Zombies: supernatural thriller with romance, part 1

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.

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?* * * * *In the tradition of seria...

Ghost Girl - 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 short supernatural thriller and mystery story.One Last Look - Why did Johnny have to have a paranoid freak for a dad? While other kids play video games,...

What kind of person works as a mercy killer?What makes a death a mercy killing, instead of murder?A 4,500 manuscript word / 18-page short story on death, and life, from the point of view of a man who is intimately familiar with the former.

Grad student Matt Diaz learns he can make a quick thousand bucks. All he has to do grab a book from a deserted house for a mystery boss.He makes it in, and realizes that was the easy part.Evading a hitman, outsmarting a centuries-old blood curse, and getting out alive...that will be the hard part.A 5700-word supernatural suspense short story.

WHEN tall, pale, and strikingly beautiful Morgaine of Cornwall, raised to be queen and ruler, discovers that a newly discovered male half-brother is to be named heir in her stead, she vows to do whatever it takes to regain her place of power and status, the crown that is hers by right of blood. But will she take the crown, or, when faced with a far greater power and ability, choose a far greater challenge?

Buy five short stories for the price of three!A variety pack of short stories from S. E. Lee spanning a range of moods and genres from horror, literary fiction, to science fiction and the supernatural: a teen's disgruntled bunker tale. A lost Roman legion in space revealed. Fate and three women, a cursed inheritance and two men...and seeking justice after death.Stories Included:One Last Look - Why did Johnny have to have a paranoid freak for a dad? While other kids