Reading Time: 4 minutesCara McHenry has only one chance to get a lead on her kidnapped sister, but the only ace up her sleeve is surprise . . . if she can hold her nerve.

Reading Time: 8 minutesA virus turns ordinary people into serial killers.

Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen a mysterious, dark figure keeps up with a family’s car at highway speeds, one little girl must inform her dad of the danger before it’s too late.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe story of a dying imagination.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe seasons pass, and recruit Charlie-7 loses himself in war.

Reading Time: 19 minutesJackson, a wanna-be bounty hunter in a post-apocalyptic city, has been hired to find the people responsible for several acts of industrial sabotage. A moral person living in a city where morality isn’t a particularly good survival trait, Jackson ends up facing a crisis of conscience.

Reading Time: 14 minutesIn “Mortimer The Maus,” Picco conveys the childhood terror of becoming lost in a large crowd, and the perils of being found by something else.

Reading Time: 11 minutesA magic lamp should have been a gateway to Imperceptibility’s every desire. So how did she end up in the underworld covered in slobber from a three-headed dog? And then there’s capture by fanatical priest-mercenaries, sacrifice to a quantum dragon, and getting trapped in a chicken coop. Will she ever find her way back home? More important still, what’s a goose feather got to do with any of this?

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe last two humans alive strike a deal with their mysterious caretaker.