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...

I have been a licensed Realtor since 2005. I have mentored many new Realtor's right after they are registered and I see mistakes that they make time after time. The same mistakes that I had made when I first registered as a Realtor.Even though I had family who had been in the business and I had worked as the equivalent of an unlicensed assistant it had been a long time. So years later I started taking my courses and I knew some of what I should do. I still ended up wasting my time ...

The future is not a shiny beacon of hope and good times. The predictions of a glorious golden age with the development of star drives and a massive exodus of humanity to the stars and a frontier atmosphere were all false.Humanity was rocked by a brutal alien invasion that left a billion dead and many traumatized. The shock was made worse by the understanding that true intergalactic war as pictured in any sort of entertainment was not supposed to be possible. But it had happened.

Have you ever sold a home and paid thousands of dollars in commissions and then wondered why you paid that money out when you only saw your Realtor for maybe twenty hours over those weeks?Do you really think it would be nice to have a job where you could become a Realtor and be on the golf course every day in the summer? Go overseas on a nice two week vacation in Europe every year? Or maybe the thought of staying local in the nice cabin you could buy up north on the lake is more att...

Science Fiction and the Scientists lied…..There was no golden age of discovery. No FTL or Galactic Federations. At first contact we found out how wrong we had been about the future.Then a failed alien invasion had crushed our reborn hope.Tim grew up a normal kid. He went to school and spent time with friends. After all ‘work hard, play hard’ is the way people live now.All Tim had ever wanted was a nice entry level management position somewhere. Pref...

Sam Slate has finished his training to become a Marine—one of the elite guardians of humanity that guard the borders of human space. He is no longer Sam: now he is call sign Eight.Yet none of the training he went through has prepared him for what life on the outer reaches of space would really be like. He is supposed to be cold and without attachment, but the rest of the section isn’t acting like he was led to believe they would.His combat scores are poor and despite his be...

Ron and his friends made it out of the Virtual Reality competition and did well. Now though they have to deal with the fall out.Everything seems changed and different. Washed out and boring.But they don’t have time to worry about that. The second alien invasion is now inbound. The robots and their masters learned from the last time and are carrying out a larger invasion with better planning.Ron and crew will have to survive the impact of the meteors that are the pre...

The Teddy Bear Stories Collection 1 is a group of 7 short stories about those adorable stuffed animals that are with every small child. The love they feel from their little cuddlers has brought them alive and they act to defend their little charges from the Night Terrors. Fears that have been with mankind since the beginning of time slowly brought to life and now hide in UnderbedWhat do they want? Who knows!The Teddy Bear Guardians are all that stand between the children an...

Science Fiction and the Scientists lied…..There was no golden age of discovery. No FTL or Galactic Federations. At first contact we found out how wrong we had been about the future.Then a failed alien invasion had crushed our reborn hope.Murderer. That's what they called Sam and he had done the crime but with good reason.The only thing saving him from the death sentence was mandatory testing that identified him as a top choice for M...

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...

Second book in the Zombie Transference Series.Warrant Officer Wagner and the rest of the survivors have just spent the last few days after they arrived in a strange alternate reality Earth seemingly stuck back in the 1950’s trying to escape from the truth of a zombie apocalypse.Driving toward a distant city where the military is holding out they must find that site to have any chance of escape.Yet the trip is dangerous and while the infected are easy to understand the...