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Reading Time: 5 minutes Humanity finally finds God, waiting in a nearby planetary system. Of course, that’s when the problems begin.

Reading Time: 17 minutes The country that gave the world Bach, Mozart and Beethoven used poison gas, barbed wire and machine guns in order to kill as many men as possible.  The countries that gave the world Shakespeare, Milton, Bizet, Victor Hugo, Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy responded in kind. 

Reading Time: 17 minutes Nehan is her people’s wartime queen, and must surrender her crown if she can repel her country’s invaders. With her biological daughters dead, she must hope she has done enough to smooth the way for her adopted son, the orphan of poor nomad folk, to rule after her.

Reading Time: 14 minutes A galoot is kidnapped by aliens for medical experiments. He becomes unexpectedly intelligent, takes out the aliens and conquers earth.

Reading Time: 5 minutes For a split second, I couldn’t tell if it was a person pounding at the door or the wind, but then I heard a young voice scream, “HELP! HELP ME!”

Reading Time: 19 minutes The monster began to come towards him, its massive arms at its sides, and its trunk-like feet sliding along the ground.

Reading Time: 10 minutes In her bed was found a messy pile of blood-stained bones and skull and jaw fragments.

Reading Time: 16 minutes My helmet melted away, revealing what should have been a skull, but instead showcased thousands of minuscule cables, flicking lights and tiny gears, latched to my brain and wiring me into the armor’s motor functions. It had become a part of my body.

Reading Time: 6 minutes There was a quick, frantic splashing, an ascent of bubbles, and then nothing.

Reading Time: 10 minutes It’s Georgia I see, naked in that corner, hands shackled high, a coyote half inside her, squirming at the jagged hole in her gut.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Our nightmare started when they decided to take home mementos.

Reading Time: 4 minutes When people start to get mysterious spots and disappear, Jude becomes concerned, but all is not what it seems as he searches for the truth.

Reading Time: 18 minutes As artificial intelligence and nanotechnology are changing the way we wage war, some things will always stay the same.

Reading Time: 4 minutes An old-tech modem leads an ex-con back into a world of crime.

Reading Time: 8 minutes An unusual love story in a portentous time and setting.

Reading Time: 8 minutes I’ve met countless souls over the years – rich and poor, young and old, across many different places and many different times, but never had I met anyone quite like him.

Reading Time: 6 minutes What good is being psychic if you can only predict someone’s coffee order or that their shoe will come untied? But our heroine’s normally mundane talent takes a dark turn when she realizes she’s going to be hit by a car. Will she survive? Can she change her fate?

Reading Time: 5 minutes The shack sits like the hollowed-out shell of a dead insect. The inner walls bleed with rotten wallpaper, and the floor is a gray slab, with a single window overlooking a black sea

Reading Time: 16 minutes When a chain-smoking, foul-mouthed finned gypsy washes up in a small Oregon town, the acting Chief of Police finds herself becoming a reluctant mermaids’ rights activist.

Reading Time: 15 minutes Simon, a weak man who suffers from stomach pain and headaches, is afraid of everything–fog, insects, his boss. But all of his pain and fears disappear when Simon finds a whole new universe on his Peek device.

Reading Time: 8 minutes I concealed the marvel that we discovered in the foothills of Sierra de Guadarrama. That I kept it a secret is my greatest sin.

Reading Time: 15 minutes When this narrator finds his “special lady,” he is swept away with her beauty and perfection. However, she has a hidden secret and events become increasingly bizarre until he finds out the outlandish truth about her.

Reading Time: 5 minutes A lonely man has a brief visit from a radiant female alien.

Reading Time: 2 minutes What happens when robots suffer regret and learn to love?

Reading Time: 5 minutes Toto doesn’t understand why Dorothy ever wanted to leave Oz, so he finds a way back.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Who are they what do they want with us? We bring you the breaking news.

Reading Time: 17 minutes “A unique, bizarre talent” was how critics described Timera Lovich and her wildy speculative poetry. But even she didn’t know the true genesis of her imaginary tales until she realized she wasn’t who or what she thought she was. Until it was too late.

Reading Time: 12 minutes Quinn Baxter escaped from a tyrannical government and finds that he is now an alien fugitive on the run from his planet’s security squad.

Reading Time: 8 minutes A hellbeast stuck in a crappy office job struggles to comply with his sensitivity training.

Reading Time: 21 minutes For Althea Stagg, demigod detective, family history and mythology are often the same thing. So it comes as no surprise to her when a case leads her to a corn maze, and the monster that stalks its prey within.