Walking NonexistentInventive writer, Rob Vagle, dazzles with a transcendent short story.Jessie leads a fragile existence. For your eyes only, if you can keep a promise and a secret.A bittersweet study on the nature of human existence. A story of love and the drive for human connection.

Dispatch From The Other SideYoung Antonio Vega lives in America with his Aunt Maria after losing his family, as an infant, crossing the Mexican border eighteen years earlier. On the morning of July 22, 2036, his Aunt pushes him out the door because of the infamous postcard.That infamous postcard arrived in 2019 with a mysterious message for Antonio Vega with coordinates and a future date for a dispatched message from Carmen Vega, his deceased mother.

Magnitude And InsignificanceThe crowleys in their tiny ships landed in the backyards. Their ships no bigger than toys and the humans loom large and frightening. The colonization begins. If the humans will have them. If they bow down and serve. Otherwise, human extermination is on the table.The crowleys may be small, but they are mighty.A fun romp of an alien invasion.

Twisted But Never BrokenA Guillermo Tavarez Crime Short StoryAcclaimed author, Rob Vagle, writes striking crime fiction.Guillermo Tavarez is a fixer in the greater Phoenix area, dealing with devils of the human kind, and virtuously holding together the moral shards that remain inside him. When a young woman named Nadia goes missing, her younger brother, Reikan, has a bad feeling and darker suspiscions about his father.Through a crucible of honor killings and...

ConfessionalFrom the acclaimed Rob Vagle, writer of the weird and fantastic.Patrick Sanders enters a quiet bathroom stall for some welcome alone time. But the moment of peace breaks when a ghost in the stall next door begs Patrick to absolve him.A short story that is both a ghost story and a crime story, filled with chills.

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...

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.

Ready MundaneFrom acclaimed author, Rob Vagle, the writer of the weird and fantastic.Brian works the graveyard shift at Ready Fuel because of the quiet. But tonight alien hunters, a breach between worlds, and sentient flames will upend his mundane life.A humorous science fiction short story about events that offer a glimpse into a world one young man never knew existed.

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.

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.

Time Travel Is For The TreesStuart and his whole family gather in the backyard to build a tree house in the enormous elm tree. But when the air shimmers and the birds go crazy, they find out they are not alone and learn even arborists can travel through time.An enchanting twist on the use of time travel in a heartfelt and humorous tale.

Acclaimed short story writer, Rob Vagle, writes unique, weird, and wacky tales.They came in a ship that looked like it sailed from the seventeen-hundreds with pirates who seemed modern, ridiculous and creepy. Joe wanted to fish on his boat and relax with the ocean breeze just off the Oregon coast in the early twenty-first century. Instead his life is in peril, trapped in a surreal nightmare and walking the plank.A thriller of a short story with unforgettable characters.