Excited for summer, Stevie Buckbee is headed home to the family ranch to be with her father, her brother Blake, and her horses. With Jack Rabbit, her first horse all her own, she plans to compete in every barrel race competition in five states.When she gets to the ranch, though, it doesn't feel like home. A year has passed since her brother Edwin died in an accident, but Dad is still distant. To make matters worse, Blake has a new girlfriend and plans of his own.Her horses ...

In 1718, in an England that might have been, the law found Rosalind Bainbridge guilty of witchcraft. In lieu of execution, she became Private Bainbridge of the 101st Pistoleers...A Gunwitch of the King's Coven.Twenty-four years later, dishonorably discharged and working as a scout on the Amerigon frontier, Rose's past comes looking for her. A summons and a request from the officer who saved her from the hangman's noose. A reunion with another veteran of the 101st, someone s...

Four linked stories of Hell, and Life, and Life in Hell. "Summer Breeze" - The demon Gykamjarott, who likes to be called Jike, decides he needs a change. "Inferno" - Undead hellcat Canto gets a night out on campus of lust and gluttony and the other deadly sins. "Sweet Tooth" - Donut baker Ted Millet, divorced and broke, has a new customer that makes his ex-wife seem almost human. And in the novella "Afterimage" Emily M-Something March, dead and damned for thirty years, finds herself back i...

Drunk on mojitos, high on love, and smelling of sex just consummated on the beach, Myra Acevedo went swimming for the last time. When she came out of the clear water of the Yucatan peninsula, she was no longer just Myra. She had become the end of the world. A story of Noah's Ark in the modern day. In reverse.

Two yellowing Polaroids, snapshots of a little girl at the fair. Two different childhoods separated by the death of her father. One childhood she can't remember, ruined by the one she wants to forget. When her boyfriend's "birthday surprise" turns out to be a date at the same fair, Sharon finds herself face to face with both.

Ted Millet, divorced and broke and tired of getting up at 2 am, shows up for work anyway at the Jenny-Buns Donut Shop. If he doesn't make the donuts, no one else will. This morning, though, he has a new customer waiting for him that makes his ex-wife seem almost human. (3100-word short story)

Running Free & Stevie Gets Back in the Saddle - 2 flash fiction stories about 13-year-old Stevie Buckbee."Running Free" - Running sprints after soccer practice isn't so bad with the help of Cocoa, one of Stevie's horses."Stevie Gets Back in the Saddle" - Jack Rabbit, Stevie's first horse all her own threw her and kicked her over spring break. Now it's time to get back in the saddle.

Dragons of the Stars - 2 short stories about the future, where spaceships controlled by superintelligent AI's go renegade, venting their human crews into the vacuum of outer space and become the Dragons of the Stars."Under the Dragon" - The roar of the dragon's thrusters could not be heard through the vacuum of space. But Allan heard it anyway, in his mind, as the massive bulk of the renegade spaceship eclipsed the light of the distant Sun..."The First Dragon" - This mining...

Police respond to an emergency call at the house of known religious fanatic, William Revell, to find the floor, every wall, every window, even the ceiling, splattered and smeared with blood. "He came," Revell says when he's asked what happened. "He came..." (1200 word short short story)

In most ways, Heidi Crolley is your typical remote IT worker. Single. Nerdy. Shy. Barely gets along with her mother. But she also sees ghosts. Which 100% makes the rest worse.After nine years, Heidi moves back to her home town. She and Doris, her live-in ghost friend, have barely settled into their new apartment when other ghosts show up. Adjusting the thermostat. Opening the blinds. Eating diner food at her table. And refusing to leave when asked. When Heidi knocks on the door of ...

Jamie Derouen's pampered life as scion of a nouveau riche New Orleans family is coming apart like the plastic beads of a Mardi Gras necklace.Ashley Turner, the man she loved, was murdered by her father, torn from her arms and taken to the swamps, the latest sacrifice to appease an angry god. A year later, Ashely has come back from the dead, horribly changed, his mind broken, and now her father has disappeared. Jamie can feel the eyes of the god looking at her, hear its laughter in ...

"Working Girl" - An action/urban fantasy story by David Michael. Hitwoman the Gray Angel's latest target is elusive businessman Neil Spencer Thomasson, who is staying in a high-rise hotel with an unknown number of armed guards. Fortunately, Thomasson has called in an escort for the evening, a woman who comes highly recommended and whose face Ange hopes he's never seen. (1900-word short story)