Sam just came home from a hard day at work. The last thing he was expecting to find was a deathday notice. With just two weeks notice of his impending death follow Sam as he tries to make the most of his last days and find love before it's too late.

Teklas is a dump and Isa is desperate to get off planet as fast as possible and back into a real job. She finds herself running illicit portable poker machines to make money. It's either that or go back to stripping or the mines.So far she has been lucky and avoided the cops. When her friend Tara tampers with one of the machines see how her luck changes and why.A story about destiny and probability.

The Things We Carry is an autobiographical account of a man’s journey in a lifelong struggle against PTSD. Aside from trying to offer everyone a glimpse of what it is like to live with PTSD, the book is an attempt to suggest that despite the accepted disparities, there really are some shared commonalities among those who suffer this horrifying disorder—that sad sense of alienation from society.All of us, at some points in our lives, witness life-threatening experiences that may or ...

Another great collection of five science fiction short stories. We have valiant drones, cruel recycling units, alien assassins and the latest and greatest mobile phone the Soylent Seven!! Quirky fun and different. Great for a quick read on the commute. All stories previously seen in Antipodean SF ezine!

Hirri Nino is a talented Sioken, someone who can control the minds of other humans. Unfortunately his brain has been damaged and is augmented by AI. He has lost part of who he is. The pressure of his job and the ghost pains from fragmented memories have driven him to alcohol.Morgan Telu is Hirri's Linker, the one who keeps him from losing control. She literally holds his life in her hands through the Psych-link, a device that binds their minds together. If she dies he dies.Wh...

Ferret is a street smart career criminal who is skilled at one thing, saving his own neck. One doublecross too many has put his life in imminent danger. Ferret is a survivor and has one last doublecross planned. Find out what lengths Ferret is willing to go to in order to avoid trouble and stay alive.

Neen and Sliver have unwittingly unleashed an army of undead orcs into the world and with it a dark magic plague that threatens to destroy civilisation. Follow the two streetwise fairies as they try to track down the wizard behind it all and exact their revenge. Who knows, they might even try to save the world along the way in this exciting next novella in the Necrofairies series.

The year is 2020Jess is just an average high school student. He is one of the smart kids not one of the popular ones and he is exceptionally awkward around girls. His life is about to change in more ways than one when Rachelle, a French foreign exchange student, comes to his school. For Jess its love at first sight only he doesn't know what to do about it.Before Jess can pluck up the courage to ask her out, his world, and everyone else's, is turned upside down when, in the ...

A collection of three new short-short science fiction and fantasy stories.Not the Silent Type - What would it be like to be on a planet where being quiet is paramount?The Last Spell - Will Farrel's last ever spell bring him glory or destruction?Reality of Retirement - In the future what will retirement look like?Please also check out Shane's first full length novel, Apocalyptica - Rogue Memories - out now!

The paths of perception are thrown open, and new realities loom beyond – all that is left to do is to cross the passageway.New adventures, friends and foes, and whole worlds out there; all of that is being promised to those who cross the threshold. Without any guarantees, or without knowing what's out there, we want to follow the journeys of those who dare to go beyond.In the fifth Sans. PRESS anthology, 15 writers explore what it means to face transformation – what ...

When an ancient Ark ship from the early days of galactic exploration and colonisation is discovered drifting in close orbit around Concorde 5 the experienced salvage crew of the Southern Cross are called in to investigate. When the salvage crew arrives they soon discover this is no ordinary salvage mission.

Vaslus is a doomed world orbiting an unstable star. To preserve their civilisation the Vaslusians have embarked on the greatest colonisation scheme ever imagined. However the first intelligent beings they encountered have attacked them without provocation or reason. They are now at war and in a race with an unknown enemy with violent intentions. In this second story of the Prominence series follow Relv, survivor of the Abarath, as he fights in the first fleet to bring the attack back to th...