Absolute Xpress: 28 books

AN AURORA AWARD WINNING COLLECTION! Four women. Four shooters. Four destinies to save the world… The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are coming. And four Archangels must find the perfect champions to save the world: fighters, warriors, soldiers, and brave men, all ready to fight...

Absolute XPress is proud to present it’s fourth Flash Fiction Challenge anthology – “Inhuman”. The Theme: There are other beings out there. Demons, fae, aliens, robots and more. Creatures that have been watching us for a long time. They know us. For this challenge, write from the...

Would your characters try to swindle a dragon out of his treasure? Perhaps they’d try to steal the fastest spaceship in the galaxy? Or are they after something a little more sinister that’s in need of taking? Where ever and when ever they take place, the stories of these Thieves and Scoundrels...

About the Book: The essence of The Seven Deadly Sins (Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth and Wrath) are captured in this anthology of flash fiction (fiction of extreme brevity) stories! Written by four amazing writers, their flurry of words and polished sentences reveal each of...

An eagle feather drifts down onto the forest floor, the sky shifts, a leaf falls, and the world of story is awake in me once more. A place where Sun dogs streak the sky, Northern Lights beckon, and those Canada Geese call me home. Nothing can stop the seasons from changing. Nothing can stop the story...

Shanghai Steam Tackling the issues of classism, racism, and imperialism. Recommended Steampunk Reading. "Shanghai Steam is one of those anthologies you think will be one thing, but is surprisingly more…" — Bram Stoker Award-winner, Michael Knost. "Just when we thought...

There are many kinds of mothers today—birth, adoptive, grandmothers and mothers of necessity. In this collection of mothering stories, Lana Skauge retells some of her favourites. Six stories about life’s lessons using metaphors and simple truths. They are based on her interactive performance pieces,...

The once peaceful relationship with the Insect civilizations has mysteriously begun to change and over a period of a hundred years the Federation now finds itself involved in a galactic-wide war. A small task force stationed on a remote, now dying planet ironically named Futura, may hold...

Horror and erotica. Zombies and romance... Maybe a tender love story is your thing, a husband doting on his wife’s rotting corpse. Or perhaps a forbidden encounter in a secret café, serving up the latest in delectable zombie cuisine, or some dirty, dirty dancing in the old-time...

Writers everywhere were issued a challenge—write an epic flash fiction story in under 1000 words. But there was a twist, it couldn’t be just any story. It had to tell the tale of a creature that haunts the night; one that lurks in the shadows; one that hides in dark places. Authors...

Disease, starvation and warfare ravage the icy realm of Preludria. Born to royalty, Adysia must find a way to save her people. But when she chooses to marry Koron, heir to a neighbouring kingdom, the young couple is exiled to the frozen wasteland. Adysia leads their flight through the forbidding wilderness,...

What’s a girl to do when the man of her dreams comes from a culture where multiple lovers are acceptable? For Ann, the question is complicated by the need to track down rebels pedaling Reetion technology in the Gelack universe. Ann must enlist the help of the “other” woman, Perry D’Aur....

Lana Skauge’s handpicked recollections and musings about her favourite time of the year stand as life markers spanning from her earliest performances to her new works. Those familiar with her stories will be pleased to see “The Perfect Tree”, “Saskatchewan Memories” and “The Old House”...

The Wall of Loss separating the lands of light and darkness is failing… Despite her attempts to stop them, dark creatures invade Princess Cassara Edoline’s small and almost forgotten kingdom, murdering her family and taking her younger brother captive. Torn by guilt and clutching an...