Wanda has to jettison her cargo on Dora, a planet on the frontier of space. Instead of a minor disciplinary hearing – her choices are death or life in a hard labor camp. At the last moment she receives an offer she can't refuse.Will this old fashioned girl do the right thing, or will she succumb to temptation and gain her little piece of paradise on a new world?

Inspired by true events.Someone will kill to ensure the past stays buried.Heather is a retired bank officer now a fiction writer. During her research she discovers that truth is turning stranger than fiction as she and her new neighbor and friend, Joy, face a burglary, a car crash, and an attempted murder in their search for a killer from the past.Will they survive as they try to solve the mystery of the “Old Bones.”Secrets never stay buried forever.

Long before there were cellphones the big news was when your house had a telephone installed. In the 1950's party lines, where you shared a line with other households, meant you were able to listen in on your neighbours phone calls.Kate Baker is so excited to use the newly installed telephone she inadvertently listens in on a neighbours call she should not have heard.This begins a terrifying journey for young Kate that threatens to destroy her family.A story of terr...

A Neighbor's Mystery short story.After Heather, Tom, and their cairn terrier, Buddy, agree to take in a troubled girl for the Christmas holidays valuables mysteriously begin to disappear. Heather begins to suspect the girl is stealing but cannot believe she would do such a thing.A mystery with a magical twist that will surprise the family and warm their hearts.

53rd Street Publishing invites you to Tales of the Fantastic, a five story collection of thefinest fantasy of international selling author, Rita Schulz. In the collection you will find stories of a tormented werewolf, sibling ghosts, fairies who need to help, and partying aliens.So join us on a journey to wonder and amazement you won’t want to miss.

In the tradition of classic pulp crime fiction these talented writers are sharing their takes on strange and weird detectives in strange worlds:Paranormal detective, Amanda Dark, seeks answers at the haunted Moonrise Diner from the ghost of her dead uncle.Dean Wesley Smith asks the question, can a ghost and a superhero find true happiness and sex and stop a few killers along the way?When Helmie—a pampered Persian cat worth millions—goes missing, the estate hires not...

Sheila must find a way to save the Blarney bed and breakfast from financial ruin.Fairies may hold the answers to her problems

Welcome to The Dark Zone where our future is doubtful.A place outside reality where the human race faces the end of the world. A place where rebellion against injustice threatens to destroy all we have built.Our hopes and dreams may be gone forever.But just when we think the human race may collapse and disappear a glimmer of hope appears.Rita Schulz takes readers on a journey to show us what might be. So come along and enjoy the danger and the adventure as w...

When Jewel wakes up one morning she discovers something about her has changed. It’s not puberty it’s something else. She soon discovers her best friends are also changing.A tale of teenagers taking their first steps into a larger world, a world desperate for heroes.These three girls may have the answers and they are all for one and one for all.

High school student, Anna desperately wants to take art next year, but her mother forbids what she says is a trivial pursuit with no career prospects.But Anna’s dreams drive her to strive to be a famous artist, it is her passion.Will she defy her parents and change her elective to art? Will her art teacher convince her parents to let her stay in art?Will her dreams destroy Anna's future?

These five fantastic tales will take you to planets at the edge of the galaxy, the 18th century with pirates, curses, and adventure, lands where magic thrives, and on a holiday with magical fey faced with a life and death decision about the future of their race.Two authors of fantastic fiction invite you to share these incredible tales of adventure and magic which you will not want to put down.The five tales are:The Scarlet CurseSpoken WordsA Little Ol...

An author of fantastic fiction invites you on an incredible journey across time, space, and alternate worlds. These ten stories will transport you to the edge of the galaxy, where you face deadly pirates, terrible curses, amazing magic, ghosts, fey creatures, fire-breathing dragons, bloody werewolves…tales filled with danger, adventure, and excitement you will not want to put down.