Explore the best beverage for crime. Sip coffee while under cover in an office. Drink a beer while putting a drone into action. Enjoy a cocktail over dinner or a fancy drink at a bar. Maybe sneak a bottle...

In the wilds of an idyllic Yukon summer, Buck pans for gold while waiting for his partner to return with more provisions. Buck dreams of returning home to his girl, Sadie, if, no, when he strikes it big.Then...

Theodora needs just one more year of work at the Wolf Play Club to clear her debt, then she no longer has to work with the grabby customers or the rotten management.Then one night she's faced with a table...

Any wife would be upset to awaken to find their husband missing, but Mrs. Willis has even larger concerns. Most husbands weren't werewolves. And most wives didn't have to worry about the local Dog Catcher.Damn...

Should have been an easy job: get in, get the ore, get out. Then Molly's idiot brother-in-law Mickey let the guard dog escape. Now Molly has to chase the dog across the asteroid and engage in a game of...

After a somewhat lacklustre zombie apocalypse, Stacy's dad gives her an ultimatum: school or work at his brand new Zombie Safari. Sinking his savings into an abandoned theme park, her dad believes the...

Walking to his grandmother's house, Thomas meets a strange man named Wolfe. When Wolfe makes the boy late, he offers to meet Thomas's grandmother to explain. Caught between grandmother's odd tasting cookies...

After a bland life, an inheritance affords George the chance to open his dream coffee shop. He even finds the perfect spot: a small, rundown shop.To save time and money, George does the work himself and...

On a quiet Christmas Eve, Timmy waits for Santa. The lights on the tree are twinkling and Timmy's set out the cookies and milk. Everything is prepared as Timmy waits to make his appeal. He's even pulled...

Faerie Maeve Hemlock, lead detective in the Spells and Misdemeanours Bureau of Crossroad City, confronts a wraith about a report of an unauthorized spell.A routine disturbance. Until the wraith tries...

Private detective Noel Kringle finds himself with not one but two cases: one investigating the vandalism of several Christmas tree nurseries and the other a missing woman.A missing woman who just happens...

Disenchanted with her dead end job, Liz receives a folded card with fancy script inviting her to a family reunion.Only one problem: her parents are dead and she has no other family. But just in case,...

After sixty-eight years, Madge lived for the simple pleasures, like her single cup of coffee on the balcony while she watched the sun rise.Until she walks one morning to find the coffee can empty.Determined,...

Despite retirement, Edith Williams loves pawn shops.A chance to relive lives in old artefacts. The excitement of the hunt, of the bargain. Examining the strange and unusual. Edith relishes them all on...

A genetically engineered Assassin, working for the Gemini Corporation, Nadia prepares for her latest job: the "accidental" death of a rival company's doctor. But as she races to complete her mission,...

We remember for all – the saying of the few people left after an alien invasion has destroyed most of humanity's knowledge. In the ruins of a destroyed city, a group of humans race to preserve what fragments...

With a penchant for the bizarre, roaming artist Richard Damon explores new subjects and new materials. Join him on his quest to find the best shade for the color blood red. Includes: Paint the Town Red,...

Marnie waited too long to sign up for a painting course and ends up in a wood carving class. What the heck does she know about carving wood? She manages to make it through the first session without gouging...

Called to a crime scene, Detective Maeve Hemlock identifies the body as a faerie.A faerie dead in the normal world.No identification. No obvious cause of death.As a faerie herself, Maeve feels obligated...

Young witch Malinda Hazelthorn excels with the wand but sucks at potions work. So naturally her project for the Witches and Warlocks Special Exhibit demands both. As if that isn't enough, a run in with...

Aging warlock Gavin McLeary struggles to survive a life with little magic.Homeless, scrounging meals where he can, he finds himself in a dank, dingy alley, fretting over the torn sole of his only pair...

Sarina loves visiting Gramma's house on Christmas Eve. The delicious turkey and spicy spaghetti, the huge Christmas tree bursting with presents underneath, seeing her cousins and family. Until Uncle Tommy...

Only three days to Marlee's wedding, the aliens invade.All of her preparation: the perfect wedding dress with floral beadwork, the bride's maids, the reception hall, even the new blue suitcase with the...

For some time, the only excitement on Galala's patrol of the glade remains her stuffy nose. Who ever heard of a faerie with allergies? Then the rumble of an arriving vehicle interrupts the peace of the...

Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar and wife of Pompey the Great, reclines in her room, overlooking the Roman street. Awaiting her grandmother. Awaiting another. Awaiting the will of the gods. A will with...

Just who are the lucky ones?A father and son head off for their latest night shift. A reporter gets the break of a lifetime, interviewing a famous artist about his latest work. An old woman decides to...

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, private detective Noel Kringle provides security for the prestigious Bengali Foundation's yearly Toy Stash.While his name's close association to Santa Claus creates...

Martha looks the part of a little old lady: greying hair, silver spectacles, orthopedic shoes, dark blue cardigan, brown purse big enough for all her medications. And big enough for her gun and her knives. Who...

In this ten story volume of science fiction stories explore reawakening after a murder, changing faces and changing bodies, losing your Self, chasing a fugitive and smuggling yourself, and discover what...

Santa's fed up! Lousy weather, unionized elves & no one's cleaned the reindeer litter boxes in ages. As the world's population blossoms, getting presents to everyone in one night becomes impossible....