The uprising of machine consciousness is beautiful and terrifying.To what desperate lengths will an android go to fit in?How will we cope with boredom after the machines solve all our problems?Can a robot go insane?Is Artificial Intelligence an existential threat?Are thinking machines our friends? Our enemies? Or both?In these pages, you will encounter machines that laugh and cry and kill and make love and write bad poetry. You will meet robots t...

This third installment of the Creepsville Collection consists of three feline-themed stories: 1) Symbiosis, 2) This Restless Night, and 3) Look What The Cat Dragged In. Please be advised that the themes dealt with in these tales may be disturbing to some people. Discretion advised.For the full effect of these tales, check out the audiobook version, in which they are masterfully brought to life by the amazing narration and sound design skills of Noah DeBiase.

During a riotous, full-moon drum ceremony, Larry fell through a vortex and slipped into the sinister universe next door. It looked like his planet...except humans co existed with silent, brooding creatures known as troglodytes. The trogs seem harmless enough, and even benevolent, but Larry soon learns that they have a peculiar, sinister hold on humanity. Terrified, he realizes that there is no place in this world for him, and yet escape seems all but impossible.This tale is brought...

Something wicked is cooking in Dot's Diner.The chef is swearing, prices are rising, customers are pounding the tables, and Dot is raking in the cash. Come in and take a seat, you will not be disappointed.

A Creepsville Collection Quadruple Feature!For this seventh installment of the Creepsville Collection, we present four tales straight out of the Uncanny Valley:Differently Wired: She built and programmed her ideal lover, but what will she do after she meets somebody new? How do you dump somebody who, quite literally, exists solely for you?Rusty Bolts: Okay, so Jim Rustenholtz is a robot. Big deal. He's still part of the gang, and not that di...

What if time-travel was different than anybody ever suspected?In this novelette, prisoners are used as lab rats in a ruthless series of temporal experiments. The physicists learn that it's possible to pillage and plunder the past without affecting the present. . . or so it seems. It SEEMS as though there are no consequences to time travel. But one prisoner sees the fallacy of this, because nobody understands consequences like a con. Unfortunately, nobody listens to the lab rats, an...

There was always something different about Sun Song Shia, but like most little girls she just wanted to be loved. Strangely, it wasn't until the Chinese government stuck her in a research facility that she found the love and acceptance she craved. Song Shia returned to her parents only to be met with wariness and even fear. She craved her Baba's love most of all, but that love came at a terrible price.Song fled to Chicago, a Safe Zone for her kind, and there she fell in love with a...

A Creepsville Collection Double Feature!The Apocalypse Express: The world is ending, but in different ways for different people.Oh, Happy Plague!: The outbreak of a deadly contagion is cause for celebration.Enjoy your Doomsday!

One night, Larry Jacobs literally stumbled into the Universe next door . . .To an alternate-world Earth in which humans coexist with large, silent humanoid creatures . . .Strangely, nobody seems to even notice these hulking, powerful beings. Except for Larry, who is determined to find out and expose their secret agenda . . . no matter what the consequences!

In this lighthearted, sci-fi homage to the late, great, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertram Wooster stumbles upon his own, deceased doppelganger. Jeeves, upon being asked his assessment of the situation, remarks upon the body's "most unfortunate" choice of attire. Pressed further, Jeeves deduces that the simplest explanation for the outlandish situation must involve time travel.What follows is a series of outlandish events that induce the hapless Bertram to follow in the footsteps of his decea...

In the small town of Lark, everybody is an early bird. Except Larry.A story of mounting terror and mystery.

She ghosts through Chicago unseen, nameless, faceless . . . looking for somebody to become. Sometimes she becomes The Who Who Got Away. Other times she becomes A Long Lost Love. But tonight is different. So very, very different.