Rail-thin with illness ravaging his body, Evan Reynolds shivers with regret watching his young son Charlie play joyously on a New Jersey beach in winter.The kid ignorant to the ticking clock of life and death.The father all too aware of it.These days, Evan struggles with many painful realities. But none greater than the question of how to convey all the important lessons a father must teach a son – far before the son is ready to learn them.What follows is an...

She is a tornado of trouble. A drifter, a grifter, a rebel.A woman with a lot more than just the attitude she wears like a stiletto dagger.She’s got a new name in every city. A true name – the very essence of a person or thing.An almost mystical property bestowed from the universe when she invokes the true name.This time, you can call her Gertrude.Needing to get gone and clear her head, Gertrude wanders the darkeni...

Utah, 1869. Forging the next chapter in a country that doesn’t seem to want them, Liam Gallagher leads a group of Irish settlers laying the Transcontinental Railroad.Behind them: Unforgiving winters of the Great Plains and the West, Indian raids, sickness, death.Ahead of them: The final push toward Promontory, where the western and eastern efforts of the railroad meet, and a contest of wills and of great financial reward looms. The promise of a whole new world of c...

From a 13x Writers of the Future Award Nominee comes a humorous look back from the far future at today’s social climate.Aboard the Imperial Starship, Huron: an extensive effort to catalogue the entirety of the existing galaxies of the universe. Each galaxy has quadrants, each quadrant has sectors, each sector contains evidence of past lives, catastrophes, and cosmic extinctions.One such sector – Sector 55555 – eons ago contained a long-forgotten planet that was onc...

An intimate portrait of grief, redemption, and the secrets we keep from those we cherish most.Former detective, Jack, boards a ship toward the seastead, Sea Hope – the mysterious and autonomous sovereign society where his late daughter, Lucy, lived for many years before her death.As he arrives, he confronts his own life and shortcomings, as well as the relationship he built with Lucy – first as a child, and then later as an adult within this odd environment.But when...

The series continues!Ledgerman’s smartwatch brings mysterious messages from an unknown source. Messages that start the clock on missions with a dead serious ending.The messages always contain the same three pieces of information: A name. A time. A picture.But what happens afterward is never, ever the same.In this assignment, deep in the heart of New York City, Ledgerman rides a freight elevator with a big-shot financier. Is the man in danger? Or is ...

The Third Volume in the Much Anticipated Series!Tune into the frequency of these “dispatches” from the mind of twelve-time Writers of the Future Contesthonoree, Niz Thomas.For the first time, collect Niz Thomas’ short fiction all in one place. With a multi-volume series entitled Nizpatches, you get stories all centered around a theme or genre. Volume Three collects a perfect alchemy of simmering despair, fright-filled twists, and the character-driven stories Niz Thomas is k...

First in the series!Ledgerman tucks into a hearty breakfast at a New Jersey diner when his smartwatch buzzes. It only ever buzzes for one reason. To deliver him three pieces of information.A name. A time. A picture.With these three pieces of information, a countdown begins. A countdown with mortal stakes and a mysterious origin – one that even Ledgerman himself does not understand.For when the clock strikes the appointed time, Ledgerman must decide whether t...

Lawrence, Kansas. 1863.The Civil War’s battlefields pit countrymen against one another. Neighbors. Family. No mercy and no love lost between the sides. A schism, long festering. Still felt today.But the war’s battlefields hold no monopoly on bloodshed.And on one fateful dawn in the sleepy border town of Lawrence, Kansas, all the epic drama of a nation at war comes together in a strikingly original historical thriller tale spiced with both the massi...

Climb aboard the unchartered Green River, a motorboat headed out to sea with a group of men who are up to no good.There is a table setting for one, a harsh November chill to the air, and the sense that something horrible has happened.And perhaps something far worse is about to take place.Let the churning wake of The Voice of Rage and Ruin wash over you as you encounter a troubling new voice in the world of crime fiction—one so distinct and unsettling, it compels you...

Disgraced FBI criminal profiler Cameron Ashe finds himself in mourning after a bombshell series of murders rocks his department. Cam’s friends, colleagues, mentors. All dead.Unable to find the killer responsible, Cam is thrown off the case, sequestered away under security detail with his wife, a brilliant high-powered attorney, and forced to face his failure head on.All he can do to keep from going crazy is reluctantly revisit the clues of the case with the help of his wife...

Another thrill ride in the series!A notification on his mysterious smartwatch interrupts Ledgerman’s peaceful and serene visit to an exclusive private Colorado ski resort. One moment he shreds untouched powder. The next, a cosmic deadline from an unknown source begins a dangerous assignment with deadly consequences.As always, the smartwatch’s notification contains three crucial pieces of information that set Ledgerman on a collision course with fate.A name. A time. ...