Lucy And The UnderworldFrom the brilliant imagination of Rob Vagle comes an apocalyptic tale from the canine point of view.After seven years, Lucy, a trained seach and rescue dog, smells the scent of humans again. She begins to dig in an attempt to bring humans back to the world.Dark and dream-like, an elegant short story of the unconditional love, steadfast loyalty, and the unrelenting drive of a dog named Lucy.

Uncomfortable ShoesYoung Benjamin works at a shoeshine stand and has the uncanny ability to place himself in another person’s shoes. Sees their future, sees their past. He might save them from a future misstep or a tragedy.Then a woman who calls herself Persephone steps into his stand and the attraction is instantaneous. But the vision Benjamin sees when he pust himself in her shoes is a startling one.A meet-cute collides with a meet-uncanny in this heartfelt tale.

Where Everything GoesExtraordinary writer, Rob Vagle, offers a brief, wild and freaky trip.Roger, a homemaker dad, takes a trip down a rabbit hole in the form of the laundry dryer.A heartfelt tale of items lost, time slipping away, and dealing with the moment.

Escape your own world into these wondrous and imaginative places in these six science fiction short stories by Rob Vagle.In a world . . .Where a new form of execution transforms more than just the condemned.Where a being made of gears and scales calculates a human life’s monetary worth.Where a stranger courts away mirror reflections of others, leaving one narcissist desperate andalone.Where the Earth holds what completes each of us to fill th...

Machine In the GhostFrom the brilliant imagination of Rob Vagle, writer of the weird and fantastic.In 2052, on a bullet train from New York City to Los Angeles, Amanda encounters a strange, almost-transparent woman who beckons her. The woman wears a trench coat and when Amanda faces the machine inside it her life will never be the same.An extraordinary and haunted science fiction story.

Time travel in a variety of ways. Through a secret government project, through a time tunnel in the back of a school locker. With a watch, whether fancy or cheap. And in the final story, a man joins a corporation covered in dust. Five science fiction stories presented here come packed with wonder.

Eternal FlameFrom the acclaimed author, Rob Vagle, the writer of the weird and fantastic.Flame is a dragon raised alone in a broken world without another one like her. When a dead dragon washes up on the shore clues point towards the west. Over the ocean and beyond there might be dragons.An intimate fantasy tale about the heart of a dragon.

A Guillermo Tavarez Crime Short StoryPhoenix, the city in the desert.Private detective, Guillermo Tavarez's dark past catches up to him.On the outskirts of the city, as a haboob and the devils of his recent past descend, and threaten to consume him.

In a futuristic world where each human life is measured on scales.The counting begins when The Counter comes a calling.The Counter, a being made of gears and scales.One man's life hangs in the balance.

Reunion SeekingAdam has only one question for Terry Corrola. Five years after Terry shot up the cafeteria at Mckinnon High and suffering from survivor guilt, Adam vistits Terry at the Oregon State Correctional Institution. With only one question he hopes to understand the tragedy in the past.A dark, intimate mystery between two people years after the explosion of violence.

For All Your Head Needs Inside And Out.A Cut Beyond Barbershop always open for business. Everywhere, anytime. Turn your head after visiting and it blinks out of existence.A barbershop full of multitudes.Wherever the shop appears, the barbershop changes. A different name and a different barber—different gender, different nationality, different race.A Cut Beyond Barbershop Quartet includes stories about a woman looking for help facing her fear of death, a youn...

Rob Vagle brings you six gritty short stories in the genre of crime fiction.Phoenix private detective Guillermo Tavarez seeks not just justice, but also revenge in “A Vulture Waits.”In the story, “Fleeing,” a mother denies the crimes of her dead son while blind to her own rage at losing control.In “Confessional,” a ghost yearns to confess his crime to a listenting ear in a bathroom stall.In a dark, harsh place, “Cat Noir” offers you a cat never found in a co...