Short Stories

Reading Time: 7 minutesIt was the plague that kept on giving; now it’s giving advice.

Reading Time: 7 minutesA toy guards the last DNA material of the human race.

Reading Time: 17 minutesA ballerina who’s always dreamed of the spotlight finds herself in the shadows when she makes a dangerous deal with a ghost.

Reading Time: 17 minutesWhat happens when meeting the star of your favorite childhood show and everything goes awry?

Reading Time: 4 minutesA new take on the traditional space aliens arrive on Earth story – I hope you like it!

Reading Time: 9 minutesAn exploration of that arcane quantum realm where one skids and slides between decision.

Reading Time: 12 minutesNot all people shopping in a store are what they seem to be…..

Reading Time: 5 minutes27th of August, 2086
Even in the future, you can’t take tomorrow for granted.

Reading Time: 8 minutesPaul must escape a case of mistaken identity in a sci fi con.

Reading Time: 12 minutesA Shingon Buddhist successfully accomplishes Sokushinbutsu, the practice self-mummification. Once achieved, however, what initially appears to be confirmation of that philosophy turns out to be something quite unexpected.

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the battle of man’s stomach versus his immortal soul, the stomach wins every time.

Reading Time: 11 minutesTom might not have emotions but he has brains and creativity that go a long way managing timeless evil.

Reading Time: 10 minutesThe stage is hers alone. But something is waiting in the wings.

Reading Time: 24 minutesA recent member of Faerie’s nouveau riche attempts to get his hands on an elusive status symbol but in the process gets a little more than he bargained for.

Reading Time: 12 minutesIs having everything you have ever wanted or desired as good as it is supposed to be? What if it is more of a curse than a blessing?

Reading Time: 19 minutesWhen Hanna gets her acceptance letter to magic school, she’s willing to risk everything, including her gift, to join the ranks of the Guild.

Reading Time: 12 minutesA young girl befriends a mysterious and somewhat grotesque boy who, unbeknownst to anyone else, has taken up residence in her family’s home.

Reading Time: 25 minutesAn undead assassin for an alternate historical Aztec empire pursues a rebel cult leader across a speeding train. To accomplish his mission, he must overcome not only dangerous enemies, but the truth of his own nature as well.

Reading Time: 12 minutesShe promised to wait for Jonas Romany. Using his education heartbroken Jonas found a way to hurt the entire community because the mosquitoes were taking too long to do the job.

Reading Time: 14 minutesA young boy in San Francisco’s Chinatown faces a fearsome monster emerging straight out of ancient Chinese legend.

Reading Time: 7 minutesFuture scientists try to avert a devastating plague which will take place in year 2020 by sending Zeitnauts back to 2019 to alert world governments.

Reading Time: 10 minutesMarta understands. She talks me out of my depression. It’s not like I’m a merchant banker. I’m not a CEO for an Armament Firm or Fossil Fuel Company, she says. I don’t send kids off to war or lobby politicians. I’m not a full time monster like those guys, just part time.

Reading Time: 6 minutesA man who’s forgotten everything knows only that he should stay in motion.

Reading Time: 17 minutesThere’s something strange about the lake near Lester Tarbell’s vacation cabin. Whatever is in it makes Lester just as strange.

Reading Time: 22 minutesIn Venice of dreams, a woman struggles through a nightmare and saves the city by damning herself.

Reading Time: 20 minutesBodgen, a genius scientist (just ask him) from Romania, has received a fantastical letter from America, a most assuredly made-up place, that claims he has a long, lost brother who is coming for a visit. Bodgen doesn’t believe a word of it, of course.

Reading Time: 25 minutesIn 1958, a young editor corresponds with a veteran science-fiction writer.

Reading Time: 8 minutesThe hardest working mage who ever lived will do anything to pass his English exam.

Reading Time: 12 minutesThe amputation was the easy part.

Reading Time: 11 minutesWhat happens below decks, stays below decks in this horror/humor mashup of the biblical account of Noah’s ark and the doomed voyage of the Demeter in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Reading Time: 5 minutesShe was eight when her body rotted away. A virus. They were able to save her brain, and for the last ten years she’s been living inside an eight-year-old android body.

Reading Time: 15 minutesThe creatures were out there, somewhere, waiting for him. But could one stranded human defeat hundreds of hungry aliens?

Reading Time: 6 minutesA money-grubbing politician usurps the limited resources of the town they just burned to the ground. The Boatmen has another idea.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe firstborn of every family is called up to service, in the name of protecting the grace and honour of this Unified Earth.

Reading Time: 4 minutesHis mother-in-law told him he’d be rewarded for hurting her daughter. He thought she meant she was happy that she was gone. Too late, he realized he was wrong in his interpretation of reward.

Reading Time: 18 minutesWhen Gordon finally gives in and gets fitted for Carbon 14 contact lenses, he has to learn how to see the world differently.

Reading Time: 13 minutesIt takes place in a futuristic Rio-São Paulo megalopolis, where old and sick people die and nobody cares. Nobody except the protagonist.

Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen Dave witnesses a deadly hit-and-run from two storeys up, it triggers a chain of events that makes him question reality.

Reading Time: 21 minutesIn near-future England, teenage Naomi daydreams of dating a boy from the lunar Colony.

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen Grandma Minerva is bitten trying to buy a special Christmas present for her grandchildren, she is determined to still have a wonderful holiday before she turns.

Reading Time: 16 minutesCan love blossom between an man and a low-gravity spider in the most dangerous parking lot in the Galaxy?

Reading Time: 16 minutesThe old metalworks where Seth’s father was a Robotics technician before the war drafted him; is now a graveyard. He sneaks back inside, never expecting to find Robots, a T-Rex and a communication bot. It is perfect until the police discover them; they are immediately sent for destruction.

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn a war-torn world of brutal fighting between greens and technocrats, three orphaned children collide with destiny. A single decision will define their lives.

Reading Time: 5 minutesAnca is lonely and she knows it’s because she is different, but when she had a bad accident she encounters somebody that could be a friend.

Reading Time: 12 minutesJulia, an elderly woman, is haunted by dementia. Though Alzheimer’s might explain why she can’t remember picking the flowers in the hallway or putting the kettle on, she’s starting to believe she’s being haunted by something else entirely.