Rod and Brenda. A seemingly normal couple, living in a seemingly normal neighborhood on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. But Rod and Brenda hunt monsters. Fight to keep Portland safe from creatures...

Ganymede: a half-terraformed, isolated human outpost. Low population, all pioneering spacers with a frontier attitude.Where retired Captain Cole Douglas runs a bar in an old shuttlecraft.Far from help,...

Hold my ancient tome and watch this...Only Perry would bind a familiar spirit into a chalkboard. And only Perry would try to impress a friend by conjuring while drunk.That spirit runs loose in the city...

Hardened warriors melt out of the forest of evergreens. Wolves on the hunt. Surrounding Venya on the lonely dirt road. Ready to kill to claim what she carries.Venya: not just any courier. A clever warrior...

Jimmy "Snake" Silver -- shredding guitarist of the Zoo, and the last torchbearer of a dying sound. Still living on the proceeds of his big hit single.Jimmy's bandmates -- late for rehearsal. Again. And...

Lloxup awakens amid mud and driving rain. Robbed and left for dead. Yet another failure, in the life of a noble's fourth son.But that stone shaped like a giant wing. The first sign of the Fennigsan, the...

The third largest sugar cane plantation in 19th century Brazil. Yerodin runs the kitchen for the Almeida family. A respected man, for a slave. A comfortable life, for an old man.Now a young man stands...

Catastrophic power failure. The worst thing that can happen to a warship in battle.Four hundred lives, on the shoulders of tech first-class Johnny Rossi. He needs to find and fix the power loss before...

A ruined castle in the distance. Too small for a king or duke. Probably home to a baron or count. Before the Uprising.No nobles anymore. The emerald isle in the hands of clans, raiding each other’s cattle.The...

The first manned mission to Mars. Paving the way for settlers. Every crewman the best of the best. But a long flight, where grudges and tempers have their chance to flare.Blaine, outside of the ship....

Akela "Big Kahuna" Kapule: not just a hustler, a pool wizard. Literally. He divines the future with cubes of blue chalk. He weaves spells with a cue in his hand.Big Kahuna protects pool halls around Portland,...

Jeff had his best day of summer vacation come to an abrupt halt: the accident. Now no more soccer, no more bike tag, no more fun, but he doesn’t understand why. Perhaps re-living the day will help... “Not...

In the skies above, earth's superheroes battle alien invaders to a standstill.But in Portland, Oregon, a new hero arises. No code name. No cape. No mask. Derek Bergstrom's only power: to find whatever...

Darien, a man on the verge of collapse. Not eating. Not sleeping. Not since his wife died. Not since the night of their last fight.Darien visits a psychic. A specialist in hauntings. His last hope.Darien...

Chuck Halloran can fly, and pull weapons out of his imagination. Like his father.Chuck longs to fight crime as a superhero. Unlike his father.Can Chuck take his place as a hero, when every superhero he...

Portland, Oregon. A city named for its portals, not its ports. Portals to other cities, other countries, other worlds…Scott, a man new to Portland. Playing basketball at a park near the river, when he...

The house looked as dead as its lawn.A lost place. An abandoned place. A godforsaken place.Just the place a broken man like Andre needs for the ritual. Just the place that could turn his life around."Godforsaken"...

Ten years of hopeless war. Ten years, fighting for a mad king. Filya wants nothing more than desertion and escape. Unfortunately, he travels with honorable Sir Pyotr.On a scouting mission, Sir Pyotr battles...

Cleon Johnson, hottest full-spectrum artist around. He crafts scenes using sensations for every sensory input. Even emotional responses.But his implant jolts him awake with vicious hate mail. Overnight,...

Four friends, on their way down the coast. Ready for the joys and challenges of college in one of the biggest cities in the world: Los Angeles. Four native Oregonians, seeking one last wilderness adventure...

A beautiful sunrise over the ocean west of Hawaii. Perfect morning for a skydive. Even better morning for a murder. Eric Jarlsson plummets toward his death. His parachute, sabotaged. Useless. Two thousand...

In a world full of gods and magic, a town stands ruined. Cursed by plagues that foul the water and fields, and reduce the townsfolk to rancid ghouls craving human flesh.The town's only hope? Two farmers-turned-soldiers....

A dozen worlds, captured in page-turning stories.Every month Stefon Mears' Patreon supporters enjoy two new short stories. Stories never published anywhere before. Tales of adventure from deep space,...

Selwyn Robertson hunts ghosts for a cable television show.Tonight his team chases a rumor into the Missouri backwoods. The rumor of a vampire.And none of their high-tech toys will save them.Hunting Monsters,...

Pain.Pain revived Carl. Roused him out of the blackness…Carl: a college student, hitchhiking home for break. Along the Oregon coast. Now he wakes up in darkness. Suspended by his wrists.Carl faces the...

A new face. A new body. A new time. But before the traveler can learn his mission in this time and place, an assassin shoots at him.Only a crucial mission would draw an opposition agent.He'll change the...

Stone and Karlsson. Partners in crime, who only rob the Mob. Their last job went wrong. Eyeball-witness wrong.They argue over fault in the back of a bar. Smith and Wesson on the table between them.Only...

2027. Six decades after magic overthrew technology.Donal Cuthbert, master wizard in training at the finest thaumaturgic university in California. Edik Barshai, small-time wizard and helioship captain,...

Clans killing clans. The bane of goblinkind. Elves, dwarves, humans, orcs — they all laugh at goblins. Slaughter goblins. Enslave goblins.Grik imagines a different future. A future where even elves fear...

Execution by Promotion?Take a small team of soldiers and escort an old man behind enemy lines? Yes, the team includes the legendary warrior Lunn, but Harkin's "promotion" still sounds like a suicide mission.Only...