One Orcess Against The WorldMha fought in the Spanish-American War and earned all the respect an orcess could dream of. But not even a life of constant struggle prepared her to endure her final days in...

A FAMILY AFFRAYWith her father's death, mercenary thief Beaks returns to the place she hates most—her childhood home, to both pay her respects and make certain he's gone.She finds only lies.Determined...

"If Agatha Christie ran Unix Conventions"The BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These few days will validate Dale Whitehead's work—or expose him as a fraud.When a tragic...

THE END OF YOUR WORLD? These twelve tales from critically-acclaimed author Michael Warren Lucas remind us that doom is always personal. Genes gone wild, or not wild enough. Cosmic heroes demanding you...

 A hundred-foot barren rock in the middle of the ocean.A plane wreck.One survivor.One dead man.But the dead man keeps moving.Stop moving? He’ll eat you.Sleep too long? He’ll eat you.The only thing tougher...

Duplicate. Infiltrate. Exterminate.Liberate?The alien ate its way out of Antarctica, devouring and duplicating every living thing it found. Humanity turned continents to glass and oceans to poison in...

Trapped on a reef with a walking dead man.A need that cannot be sated or survived.Nobody else hears the dead dog's murderous ghost.Whiskey means silence. So do claws.Mental scars drag the world behind...

50% John McClane50% Robin Hood100% troubleReeling from the death of her lover and partner, freelance "exfiltration specialist" Billie Carrie Salton breaks into a high-tech, high-security biotechnology...

Meet the new universe, same as the old universe—but thirteen billion years younger.Aidan Redding's new assignment? A space station in a universe so young it's barely invented hydrogen. Researchers study...

A Private Eyein Supernatural Witness Protection Whackadoo Manor: hopeful destination for the desperate and the damned. Where the rooms redecorate themselves, the rodents have a valet, and everyone gets...

High Speed Madness,with Love at the Wheel Love. The most overloaded word in our language. Love of your mate, love of pets, of parents and children and friends, all different things. We spend our last...

Arachnids with ideas above their species?A wandering grimoire masquerading as an old Star Trek novel?The Whine Cellar and the Boom Closet? In Whackadoo Manor, we call that Tuesday. In my straight career,...

Not your normal Friday night in the computer room.Not a normal night anywhere.Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy...

Venture forth into the delightful adventures of ghosts and elves and imps and more found in the magical worlds of Fantastic Christmas.Enjoy sweets for the sweet romantics, charming ghosts and imps to...

Take stories detailing all the nastiest parts of human behavior, from theft to murder to mayhem, throw in some of the "lesser" darkness that humans can provide during the holidays, and assemble them into...

Murder, mayhem, and all manner of crimes set during the holiday season give this anthology a bite that serves as a delightful change from the sweetness that often dominates this time of the year.This...

When you ask a bunch of professional writers to send in stories to a Pulphouse Fiction Magazine anthology called Snot-Nosed Aliens, you get a bunch of really, really strange stories. Perfect.Known for...

Read a story per day from the end of November to January first...or binge the entire collection. Stories that center around holidays from American Thanksgiving and Black Friday to St. Nicholas Day, Hanukkah...

Superstitions pervade every culture and belief system. Often, the origins of such superstitions elude their practitioners. The seventeen authors in this latest volume of Fiction River create their own...

Read a holiday story per day from the end of November to January first...or binge the entire collection.This volume contains 37 stories—ranging in genre from mystery to fantasy to romance—that center...