The men have come to buy Delores Harper's dream. Actually, the diner was a dream she shared with her late husband. Since his passing almost a decade ago, the dream has lost its rosier qualities. However, one of these men desires more than a restaurant along a lonesome stretch of Oklahoma highway. He wants a keepsake Delores inherited from her grandmother.The wishing stone is just a necklace with a story attached, not a real thing. Delores knows magic isn't real. However, t...

It's been five years since Delores and Bull discovered a second chance at love … and youth. A wish for long life and happiness has left them transformed by a magical power neither understands. Years have been shaved off … and they do not seem to be coming back.Shadows On a MiracleUnfortunately, using that power has triggered unintended consequences. A stalker from another land is coming for them. Her mission is to reclaim the wishing stone. She will stop at...

Come aboard the All Powerful, join the very rich and the very famous in a joyful escape from the newest sickness that's coursing through nations and lives worldwide. Escape Red Lungs in style. In luxury. Coddled and served by a cadre of young, attractive and well-trained staff.Red lungs, Covid-21, the Dreaming Disease. It starts with precognitive dreams, spins you into unreality along with the sniffles until it floods your lungs with blood. But if you're rich enough, you m...

Wishing WellWe've all heard the warning: Be careful what you wish for... you just might get it.If you had a wish, how careful would you be?Would you regret it?Or would your wildest dreams come true?Whatever you do, make sure you wish well...19 tales of wishes that came true...just maybe not in the way expected.Featuring stories by: Emily Martha Sorensen, Kay Hanifen, Sylvia Son, Kara Race-Moore, Laura G. Kaschak, Remy Allen, A...

The first volume of a brand new quarterly series of storytelling excellence, Pulptastic Adventures Quarterly will tackle a new theme each month from a variety of stories. This premier issue examines Intersections between the fantastic and the mundane, between the real world and the cinematic one, between cosmic reaching science fiction and mind-blasting cosmic horror. These stories introduce characters caught in the midst of a transition and delivers pulse pounding plots.In C. C. B...

Ten years after the world ended, mankind is poised to ascend once more from the rubble . . . In the zombie riddled warzones that compose the devastated United States, the living dead are not the only threat against life and liberty. Madmen, slavers, raiders, and warlords struggle for total power in the shattered world. Chief among these are the zealot legions who swear fealty to the maniacal Dr. Fowler, a power mad lunatic who uses science the way terrorists use dirty suici...

KINETIC FORCE is publically acknowledged as the best of the best America has to offer, taking candidates from all branches of the Armed Forces as well as other disciplines, but the work it performs is classified and therefore not public record. In fact, it performs specialized operations for the United States government, guaranteeing freedom and hope in the terrifying twenty first century. Once upon a time before politics got muddled, the US was considered the world's peace keeper and poli...

The bank job went bad, and only five of the six members of that wild bunch of robbers managed to ride out of town. Cold-hearted Clance and his men are wounded and on the run, fleeing the federales that already claimed one of his men's lives. As they race deeper into the wilderness, they soon discover they are prey to an enemy more relentless than any bounty hunter. An unusual evil rides this trail of dust and worms . . .   Writing from the heart of Texas, it was only a...

Two detectives on the trail of a killer. One is a decorated hero of the second world war and the other a veteran of a cold war against hidden evil. Together, their investigation into an outrageous murder will reveal the weird truth lurking in Grosse Point Hills, Michigan. First appearing in a long out of print anthology (The Ghostbreakers: Vampire Hunters), this tale of shocks and terror brings Daniel R. Robichaud's unique spin to the vampire myth. Merging elements of Jame...

Hazierd Mosi, Captain of the Honor Guard, is tracking a killer. An assassin who has claimed the lives of a dozen visitors to mystic Eridu. Tonight, a trap is set. It will succeed beyond Mosi's wildest expectations. However, his success will reveal a secret that powerful men will kill to protect. Unearthing the roots of this conspiracy will require more courage, more dedication, and more sacrifice than Mosi has ever had to display before . . . and he cannot do so alone. He will have to turn...

In these mountains, the beast gods lurk and stalk . . . Vasily is a Voyvodin mercenary, a cunning warrior who uses his wits as well as his sword arm. An accidental moment of compassion puts him in harm's way. Now, he is being taken into the haunted mountains, one more sacrifice for a murderous sorcerer craving ancient power. Can he escape his human tormentors and the mysterious supernatural creatures that dwell among these crags and peaks? "Vasily and the Beast Gods&qu...

This is no time for pranks . . .George Wishing is the middle manager for an oil and gas service company's technology department. He has a proven track record of delivering the projects under his supervision with a minimum of trouble. However, an increase in tech burps during field trials as well as outright failures in jobs that rely on his department's creations are now leaving marks on his record and smears on his credibility.Upper management wants someone's ...