Become a better Horror writer with these 52 human-written prompts, plus monthly writing challenges. 52 Weeks Of Horror is a classroom you can take with you on your adventures, a book that does not merely instruct, but challenges you to reflect and rebuild your stories from the ground up. Every prompt, task, and idea is meticulously human-written, and split across an entire year of content so you can deftly avoid artistic burnout.Here you will be shown not just how, but WHY you shou...

47 stories. 11 universes. It's up to you which way to go. Will you save the humans from extinction, or be an instrument in their downfall? Will your adventure be serious, or silly?★★★★★ "whether you're into Douglas Adams or Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein, there's something in here for you."From godlike alien squid running their own pirated copy of a game called 'Earth,' to psychic crystals with a hunger for cartoonish violence against anyone called Susan, Who Built...

Nine days after Earth died, Susie wakes up, surrounded by alien spiders who claim to be here to help. Her home is gone, and she has no choice but to rely on these strange aliens, to learn their language, and to navigate a universe more alive, and more deadly, than her ancestors could have imagined. Sailing through space in a hollowed-out moon, Susie and spider-alien 'Michael' must find a way to defeat the world-eater, or at least, somewhere they can hide until something bigger kills it.

Leaving behind little Viktor, Galina Agafonov heads for Jupiter on a secret mission; to make first contact with a stranded alien spaceship, and to bring any survivors back to Earth. But something changes when they are close enough to see the craft through the cockpit window. The ancient machine speaks, and a million years slip away.Buried by an avalanche of time, Galina finds herself far from home, surrounded by fantastic technology, yet with no means to return to little Viktor.

The Crystals have always been here, growing into our reality like the spikes to some cosmic geode, their faces forever pointed inward, watching us. Today a little old lady brings home a new crystal from a shop, but she does not realise this crystal is actually magic, and that it wants nothing more than to take over the planet! The crystal won't play nice with the others in the glass cabinet, and hatches a plan to escape.

A deliberately crass Sci-Fi Comedy from the guy who wrote WHO BUILT THE HUMANS, Hologram Kebab is a short story that balances its existential edge with a relentless humour, creating a small universe in which not even death can prevent a hangover, and where kebabs (and your ex) might actually be a hologram.Sound fun?

In the cold and isolated forest, a mycelial network waits for its next meal. But when a new alien being, an 'Upright' collapses into the hyphae, the network consumes more than it bargained for. Its mind poisoned with Upright thoughts, the One becomes Two, splintering into a new, ambitious personality.The fungus has discovered the concept of individuality, and this will have disastrous consequences.

In some dark corner of the universe, eight human brains are salvaged from the ruins of a broken starship, their last memories absorbed into a vast alien intellect. In their final moments, these humans were dreaming.Five of them were imagining new Science Fiction Horror stories, two of them were creating art, and one of them was somehow astral projecting, nudging each of these twisted visions toward a shared goal.The result of this merging of human minds is Macabre Multivers...

Understanding the mechanical behavior of solids and contacts (interfaces and joints) is vital for the analysis, design, and maintenance of engineering systems. Materials may simultaneously experience the effects of many factors such as elastic, plastic, and creep strains; different loading (stress) paths; volume change under shear stress; and microcracking leading to fracture and failure, strain softening, or degradation. Typically, the available models account for only one factor at a tim...

What are the Gospels and what does it mean to read them? Warren Carter leads the beginning student in an inductive exploration of the New Testament Gospels, asking about their genre, the view that they were written by eyewitnesses, the early church traditions about them, and how they employ Hellenistic biography.He then examines the distinctive voice of each Gospel, describing the tale about Jesus each writer tells, then presenting likely views regarding the circumstances in which ...

Featuring five brand new Sci-Fi Comedy stories from five brilliant authors, the Cosmic Comedy Collection is a book that will have you laughing at everything from shapeshifting aliens, superintelligent AI, to flying cats. It's weird, it's wacky, and every single story in the book can't be found anywhere else.This book contains talented, hilarious writing from:A.J. PaganAaron FraleJohn CoonPhillip CarterRobin DrownArranged by Author-Com...

At the Zenith cocktail bar, one man is about to answer a burning question about reincarnation and our place in the cosmos.