Work, play, home life. Everybody has something a little off about their day-to-day lives. You never know when things will go completely wrong, when the horrors you only dream about will come out into the light.These short stories explore those horrors. Come and take a peak into a sampling of daily lives.Sweet Baby She was just an innocent newborn with an over-anxious mother who hired the best nanny possible. Nothing could really go wrong on mother's first d...

Halloween. Spooky. Creepy. Evil. Take your pick.On this particular Halloween, Reverend Garrett Morgan is determined there's not going to be any funny business in his church's cemetery. Not like in previous years, where the local witches did rites and danced naked among the dead.He's not quite prepared for what's going on this year, and learns it's better to be a bit more, well, open-minded. He needs to work with the local coven, rather than fight them, when a spell goes so ...

From city to suburbia, zombies are all the rage as they rampage on their quest for sustenance, taking down strangers, friends and neighbors alike, without pity or remorse.Here are nine short stories about the times when the dead walk and the living fear.MY BIG FAT ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: What better place to be when the dead rise than the local fitness center.THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT CAROL: Suburban life can be deadly dull. Or maybe just deadly.FIGGY PUDDING: Holi...

Before the world fell apart, Janet's life was already indistinguishable from Hell. In Connor, she'd thought she found a strong protector, someone who would take care of her.What she got was a controlling, brutal man who used and abused her. She felt trapped by her choices and the ravening dead, until the two joined up with some other survivors.Something changes in Janet as she travels with the group in search of a safe haven. Faced with the horrors of a zombie apocalypse, s...

Seven science fiction short stories from the pen of author Griffin Carmichael. Tales to amuse, thrill, frighten or make you think, you'll find them here. From the flash fiction piece "Whiter Time" to longer stories from the end of the world, this collection will have something for everyone.Whither Time: Betrayed, a woman gets a chance for revenge.Past Measures: Trying to fit in with a group of survivors in a world filled with heartless fles...

The stress. The gift wrap. The cooking. The relatives. Sounds scary enough on its own, but there's always something worse than the holidays. These five tales explore the twist in the tinsel.Silent: Little children look forward to a visit from Santa with great anticipation, but there's nothing good coming down the chimney this year.Unholy Night: Snowfall blankets the Earth and in the silence a baby's first cry arouses the oddest response in ...

Dr. Carol Winston escaped a mindless horde of the infected by going underground. Along with a few other survivors and a fellow coworker, a man known to her only as Jenkins, she waited for word that the situation was contained and it was safe to come out of hiding.But that word never came, and she set out to find out what happened. Captured and forced to continue work on the virus responsible for it all, she has little hope for her own survival, or that of the rest of the world....

A small, nondescript lab somewhere in America is working on cures for illnesses that plague the animal kingdom.But they have a secret, and one day an animal rights group breaks in and sets the worse disease known to man or beast free.Dr. Amanda Worthy tries to prevent it, but she becomes infected. Now her only hope is to find a cure, and get it out into the world before humanity becomes extinct. It's going to take all she has to give to deliver some kind of hope.An ...

Sheriff Brody Johansen is overworked, under-budgeted and falling in love with one of his deputies. So the last thing he needs is to find grave robbers have struck an out-of-the way cemetery.What he discovers about the missing bodies links them to a mysterious lab that set up in his county a few years earlier. Before he knows how it's all tied together, he's faced with a situation he can hardly believe: an infection is spreading, turning anyone in its path into mindless, flesh-cravi...

From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.There's even an alien puppy.

From a creepypasta horror farm to a bullish love tale and from the bloody metal deck of the ESS Arclight to superhero octopus food trucks, you can transform your shortest stolen moments into utter delights with this diverse collection of 33 flash fiction stories.Commuting to work? Grabbing a quick coffee? Each story tells a complete tale in but a few short minutes with the added promise of a lifelong introduction to new indie writers.You never know, you mig...

24 Extremely Short Halloween Stories for your Briefest MomentsFrom a Hillary Clinton stripper to mythical beast-women in the harsh Scandinavian tundra and from an unusual band of steadfast teddy bears to the last man in zombie-occupied Chicago, fill your briefest moments with pulse-pounding frights and off-beat chuckles with this collection of 24 flash fiction stories.Commuting to work? Grabbing a quick coffee? Each story tells a complete t...