Caught by a fast-moving storm, the young woman was on her own against the elements. No search party would find her in time to save her life if she stayed out in this weather.She needed shelter. Now.Trusting...

A minimalist tale of an Emperor who sought Truth that one of his student-scribes found - but then disappeared...Excerpt:One day, as court was held, the teacher was in a particularly foul mood. The weather...

Sue returned to earth in what looked like a meteor to those watching. But it was an escape pod from the Moon colony. Where the cities had gone to escape Earth and its governments' leaving the rest of...

A Writer Recluse Places an Ad for a Caretaker and Gets More Than He Asked ForThis quiet contemporary fiction has a calm romance beneath the seeming gruff exterior of a reclusive writer who wants his solitude...

A farmer out checking his cattle finds a newborn calf of many colors.Deep in fresh snow with no momma cow in sight. It is supposed to get well below freezing tonight and the sun is going down quickly. What...

Some vacation. Not like I'd planned - or the brochures.Now I'm in a space suit after some sort of freak accident. Lucky I knew how to get in one, and one was nearby. First time for everything.But now,...

What did you do after the cities died?A couple of days after the cities left, I was there.Dancing.Whether it was appropriate or not, there was no one there to care.I had things to celebrate and this was...

The meteor talked to Tig as he watched it land. Meteors came now and then. But never one that screamed like it was afraid of landing. All he wanted to do was to make sure his pack was safe against the...

Light, Seasonal Reading by New Author C. C. BrowerContains three short stories to fill your holidays with cheer: Long Overdue Santa -  The house seemed so empty now with the children all grown up and...

The surest sign of civilization returning to an area is in the trading and stories.Festivals had long been attended between the villages, using horse and oxen-pulled wagons along the old cracked and buckled...

How Can You Save Your Own World When You're Stuck In Someone Else's Dream?The sentient wolf-pack that had saved her when she crash-landed back on Earth was being torn apart by internal power-struggle,...

TO DREAM OF TALKING WOLVES AND CROWS might be strange to some.To act on what they tell you to save some wild pups in an abandoned building with an unknown menace threatening your life - well, that might...

Why was that meteor screaming in his mind? Someone inside it terrified of landing?All he wanted to do was to make sure his wolf pack was safe against the fire from the sky. But the meteor had called him,...

When Sue crash-lands back on Earth, she didn't know what to expect.What she found was a telepathic wolf pack, capable of reasoning and the dominant life form on the planet. The were in a fight for survival...

Sue had been though a world of pain already.Surviving re-entry to this planet in a powerless escape pod. Learning to speak with telepathic canines that had become the dominant sentient beings on Earth....

The last, final Middle East war was over. Fast. Brutal. Final.Jerusalem experienced the final solution as all their combined defenses couldn't save it from sinking beneath a new sea of irradiated water.General...

The world has changed. Humans almost extinct, other sentient species now rule this planet and work to keep it in balance.Without the polluting, noisy, conflicted centers of human populations called cities....

When there are no more governments, other than on paper, one Corporation will rule and solve all povertey and warfare. The solution enabled people to stay "jacked in" and code 24/7, loving the opportunity.***If...

A first collection of short stories from C. C. BrowerIn addition to her longer novellas and novels, Brower started out with short stories.Contemporary, Fantasy, Science Fiction - 13 wonderful worlds from...

"I want you to teach me about sex."The lithe young thing was probably a third my age and somehow had wound up, pre-dawn, in my day bed with only her thin nightgown between us."My Aunt says it's OK as...

A trilogy about three generations of reclusive authors, the worlds they created around them, and the ones they loved.The Caretaker:A Writer Recluse Places an Ad for a Caretaker and Gets More Than He Asked...

Her closest friends didn't know she was dead. Until they saw the full page ad in the paper advertising her funeral.They mystery was in how she died. No corpse, just an urn filled with ashes that was distributed...

Sue had been though a world of pain already.Surviving re-entry to this planet in a powerless escape pod. Learning to speak with telepathic canines that had become the dominant sentient beings on Earth....

Trapped by a vicious self-appointed Queen, the entire slave population of the moon colony was imprisoned next to fusion drive exhaust ports.When the fusion drives ignited to lift the colony off for the...

Now that Malia of 'Cagga had her little city under perfect control, she was ready to export her efficiency plans to the rest of the moon cities. And help them achieve a perfect society under her rule....

Finding out you're immortal as a teenager can set your world on fire.But finding out at the same time that just getting angry could kill everyone around you can dampen that pretty quickly.Who wants to...

I was Queen of the World. Until I wasn't. One moment I was in chains and bleeding, the next I was fine - but dressed in red.Someone had played a dirty trick on me. They'd dressed me in a red cartoon outfit...

When the unknown "X" lost her job and any way to make a living, she only wanted her life back.But she settled for revenge.In a way she wouldn't expect – cleaning up the elitist government messes.Because...

She was different - and could be mankind's savior, or it's worst enemy.The third generation born after a freak accident, her kind were shunned by humanity. Because they meant walking death. Until one...

At the beginning was The Games. Because they were running out of people.The gangs were killing each other off too fast. And the city was running out of money to keep them all on free food and free medical.The...