'Twas the end of Christmas Eve night and all was not well, for End Town was last and they were destined to fail…According to the deal Santa has with the residents of End Town, his last stop for the night, things will not end well if they don't have all of the items on his list! See Santa and his reindeer, including blood-nosed Rudolph, in a totally new light.This Christmas short is not for the faint of heart but certainly for a dark chuckle. Man-eating reindeer, gifts that ...

Harry's Bar was always in need of bartenders. Josh wanted the job because he thought the bar had character. He just wasn't prepared for the characters that walked in.

Jim Williams loves to collect stuff, but his wife thinks it's all crap. He may have led a past life as a dung beetle.

A young Sergeant attempts to get Top Secret information to the White House. Before it's too late. Preferably without being devoured by Giant Abominable Gopher people.A harried, desperate young Sergeant faces an impossible mission when he is assigned to drive a General carrying vital information to the White House. When his mission goes awry and he is grievously injured, only his quick thinking can save the world from the Giant Abominable Gopher people who have inva...

Archaeology is all about Indiana Jones, snakes, romance and adventure, right? Well, the snake part is true.Welcome to Terlingua, and the failed attempt at finding an Apache campsite.

Nine insane short stories with a B-movie flair fill out this anthology. There's a little violence, some adult (18+) content, and some heartbreaking love stories. Polish your fangs, spray on some fresh formaldehyde, and clean the crypt before your date arrives--being a monster doesn't mean you can't fall in love, and a collection of sad, funny tales are coming to an ereader near you.

Unlucky Kelvin Meekin gets more than he bargained for during his latest burglary. Melvin is proud of his neat and tidy, never hurt anyone routine. He lives by his "get in quick, get out faster" philosophy. It's saved his neck on more than one occasion. Kelvin's life takes a deadly turn when he breaks into the wrong house and is caught red-handed by the homeowner, "Slick" Nick Harley, a brutal crime boss. It looks like this job will be Kelvin's last.

What wouldn't young Jonathan give to be able to play outside like normal kids?A couple of recently acquired house guests know the exact right remedy, so long as Jonathan doesn't mind trading his ill health for something worse.

Few people know the true purpose of the Badger Survey of Atlar. Ashlin Smith wants out of his boring, frustrating, and apparently pointless job. But it's about to get a lot more interesting, and not in a good way, as events foreseen decades earlier begin to unfold.A giant badger, murderous cultists, abominations and dinner guests straight from the fairy tales, and a frighteningly clever and stubborn empress soon stand in the way of Ashlin's desire to return to a quiet life.

He went looking for a way out.Rome handed him a way down.Dick Moonlight has had enough.Enough of Albany.Enough of bad memories.Enough of the woman he loved and lost.So when a job opens up in Rome, Italy, working as a house detective at a five-star hotel, Moonlight packs his bags and hopes distance will do what whiskey never could—quiet the noise in his head.It doesn't.Instead, an...

Now with new Content by Tom KratmanHE RAISED AN ARMYAGAINST THOSE WHOTOOK EVERYTHING FROM HIMThey should have picked their enemies more carefully.Five centuries from now, on a remarkably Earthlike planet that is mankind's sole colony in space, religious fanatics called the "Salafi Ikhwan" have murdered the uncle of former colonel Patrick Hennessey. That was their first mistake, because...

Euthyphro - Plato - Plato is a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Plato is one of the most important Western philosophers, exerting influence on virtually every figure in philosophy after him. His...