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BRAIN WRECKS is a collection of short stories and short-short stories, ranging across a wild universe of imagination, dream, and startling reality. From the familiar landscapes of western New York to the alien brutality of a planet in a deadly struggle for survival, stopping along the way for detours into weird and wacky nightspots of unreality, this bundle of tales covers it all.

Wickedly fun short stories featuring witches, werewolves, limericks that can change fate, and a sinister vine bent on murder and the destruction of Alabama! Inside quirky settings with creepy plots, characters discover new and unsettling powers as their worst fears manifest. Let these stories...

Through a mysterious map depicting far-flung lands, a Chinese sailor in 1424 and a Portuguese cartographer in 1519 share a vision of an Earth far greater than the reality they know. Unknown to them, an even stronger thread unites them—the alien probe, Prometheus. What will it take to unlock the...

From war-torn streets and alleyways to distant planets filled with whispered secrets in the dark, this collection of short stories by new author J. H. Drake takes the reader on a journey through the eyes of several characters as they struggle to simply survive. From the pragmatist to the cynic and oppressed, watch as their lives are changed, and not always for the better.

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction,...

Stretch your mind with stories of Flight, Prophecy, and Rites of Passage. Immerse yourself in the experience of Rearranging Worlds, Vice, and Frequently Repeated Actions. Sit down with Monsters and enjoy A Repast, talk Trade or revel in A Song, but beware of the Signs. Fill a few minutes or a day...

One of the best short story writers in America. One of America's most widely anthologized short fiction writers has first new collection in almost two decades (since 1999). Braverman is a "writer's writer" revered by Joan Didion, Rick Moody, Janet Fitch, Dave Eggers, and others. 2...

Behold, the third installment in 'The Shining Horrific' series of short story collections! Author A.A. Garrison once more transports us to the shadows with his "darkly radiant" brand of the macabre. Adhering to the standard set by the original two books, Garrison takes a passionate, cerebral...

Short fiction that’s “poignant and terrifying by turns”—including a Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning novella (Publishers Weekly). Twelve exceptional stories by the multiple award–winning author of Waking the Moon and Black Light prove that Elizabeth Hand is just as adept with...

Admired as "the greatest French short story writer," and emulated by Somerset Maugham and O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of plot construction and a keen recorder of life, translating his observations into finely crafted short stories that spoke entire volumes.This edition features...

This convenient volume includes 6 of the great French writer's most highly regarded short stories, including: "An Episode During the Terror," "A Passion in the Desert," "The Revolutionary Conscript," "The Forsaken Woman," "The Unknown Masterpiece," 2 more. Excellent new English translations on facing pages. Introduction. Footnotes.

The Flash Zone is a collection of short short stories, a showcase of emotions, laughter and real subjects by Luc R. Rivet.   From Reflections In A Broken Mirror She felt like she was staring deep down into the pit of her soul, observing every flaw, every curse and...

Three short stories tell tales from the past, present, and future.“The Time Prize”: A brilliant but weak-willed physicist, the scion of a long line of failures and ne’er-do-wells, does battle with his inner demons as he tries to crack the code of safe time travel. To his aid comes a mysterious...

This collection combines five of Rachel Elizabeth Cole's touching short stories. In "Fallen Leaves," a woman must come to terms with the bad blood between her dead husband's grandmother and herself. In "Listen to the Rain," a young couple going through a rough patch struggles to...