The First Volume in the Much Anticipated Series from 11x Writers of the Future short fiction award honoree!For the first time, collect Niz Thomas’ short fiction all in one place with a career-spanning, multi-volume series focused on delivering the perfect combination of genre fiction with each release.Volume One collects over a dozen short stories of relentless, page-turning suspense, beautifully taught and committed prose, and an inside look at characters facing the harsh ...

Out in the harsh, desolate Wyoming valley they call home, former construction worker Gideon and his wife Trish find themselves racing against the clock, caught in a bind as American as the beat-up F-250 pickup truck they hope holds on long enough to reach their destination.The sun sets. The crows caw. The clock ticks.If all goes to plan, they might make their deadline. Might save their family, their lives, their futures.But out where the Wind River mountains loom, h...

The First Volume in the Much Anticipated Series!Tune into the frequency of these “dispatches” from the mind of eleven-time Writers of the Future Contesthonoree, Niz Thomas.For the first time, collect Niz Thomas’ short fiction all in one place. With a multi-volume series entitled Nizpatches, you get stories all centered around a theme or genre. Volume One collects a perfect alchemy of throat-clutching suspense, noir, and the furious momentum created when good people...

Buried secrets always bloom ...Former detective Joe Parry wakes up one morning to find his teenage daughter, Samantha, missing. At first, he hopes for standard teenager rebellion. But his instincts and a guilty conscience over their last encounter tell him otherwise.Desperate to restore her business to its former glory, disgraced interior designer Marisol Suarez takes on a new client. One who offers an opportunity for redemption and renewed status. But getting to k...

First in the series!Ledgerman tucks into a hearty breakfast at a New Jersey diner when his smartwatch buzzes. It only ever buzzes for one reason. To deliver him three pieces of information.A name. A time. A picture.With these three pieces of information, a countdown begins. A countdown with mortal stakes and a mysterious origin – one that even Ledgerman himself does not understand.For when the clock strikes the appointed time, Ledgerman must decide whether t...

Rail-thin with illness ravaging his body, Evan Reynolds shivers with regret watching his young son Charlie play joyously on a New Jersey beach in winter.The kid ignorant to the ticking clock of life and death.The father all too aware of it.These days, Evan struggles with many painful realities. But none greater than the question of how to convey all the important lessons a father must teach a son – far before the son is ready to learn them.What follows is an...

From an acclaimed short fiction author comes this immersive and powerful vision of the nexus between the mysterious world of dreams and the yearning for unrequited love – all set amidst a glamourous future and a New York City New Year’s Eve party for the ages.Dreamweaver Mark Dionne dreads parties. Spending most of his professional days delving into the dreams of others, Mark prefers solitude when off the clock.But Ritchie is an old friend. One who Mark finds himself inevit...

A new series from a 12x Writers of the Future Contest nominee author introduces an epic urban noir fantasy tale pitting the battle between Good and Evil into the gritty, greasy, grimy world of Blues music.Rainmaker Hayes captivates anybody he so desires with music that comes from another dimension. With a magic guitar and a dark, secret power, he transports people from the here and now into another world – one as unpredictable as it is dangerous.He could use this p...

From a 13x Writers of the Future Award Nominee comes a humorous look back from the far future at today’s social climate.Aboard the Imperial Starship, Huron: an extensive effort to catalogue the entirety of the existing galaxies of the universe. Each galaxy has quadrants, each quadrant has sectors, each sector contains evidence of past lives, catastrophes, and cosmic extinctions.One such sector – Sector 55555 – eons ago contained a long-forgotten planet that was onc...

Meet Earl. Each morning, Earl takes his breakfast outside on the rural North Carolina road on which he lives. His companions: the peace, the quiet, and the wide-ranging, unpredictable thoughts which permeate his consciousness.But the real reason Earl takes his breakfast outside?The beautiful model, Wendy Franklehorn.Each morning, Wendy bikes past Earl’s home. And he never misses a chance to start the day with Wendy.Until one morning, things for Earl and Wend...

House painter Lewis receives a strange but simple request. Cover one window of an old, abandoned farmhouse with three coats of black paint.Not every window. Not the whole house.Just one single window.Down on his luck and on the wrong side of fifty, Lewis takes the job. An easy and much needed payday, he thinks.But sometimes the easiest jobs require the most sacrifice.Pick up this immersive and frightening psychological horror short story that placed ...

When the cops break down your door in the dead of night, they mean business. And not necessarily the official kind.A lesson learned the hard way for the narrator of When Sheds Talk – an ex-mobster who thought hiding out in the suburbs was his ticket out of the life.Fleeing from his own home, he finds an unlikely ally waiting for him in the shadows of his yard. One who offers a helping hand in a high pressure, get-gone-or-get-arrested situation.But helping hands for ...