Brady Koch's abbreviated murders, tiny apocalypses, and weird happenstance are all collected in Flash! Vol. 1. These 50 stories are exercises in horror, sci-fi, crime and the unusual all distilled down to the essential components of storytelling. Cannibals, criminals, and the curious will all find something to like in these brief, dark tales.

Lamar devoted every waking moment of his last months of life secretly tinkering with a mysterious contraption in his garage. After he passes away, his wife must learn how to live alone and keep herself from letting the recently discovered machine spiral her life even further out of control.

The end of the world in five minutes or less! Three dozen tales of bad people and bad decisions across the galaxy or maybe just on their lunch break. Brady Koch (Guns, Gods & Robots) boils the short story format to it's essence and offers science fiction, horror, and criminal misdeeds in these bite sized tales.

Joseph's Sunday morning routine of church, beer and solitude is interrupted by a ragged screaming coming from the the far side of his farm land. What he finds there will challenge his resolve in ways he hasn't faced since losing his wife or confronting the horrors of the Korean War.

Guns: A girl’s birthday wish comes true when she gets to spend an afternoon on a manhunt with her lawman father.Gods: An old man discovers his crops aren't the only dead things on his farm.Robots: A heartless machine built for compassion malfunctions, leading its engineer on a race to fix the corruption before it spreads.Human nature in the face of impossible choices is at the core of each post-apocalypse, undead resurgence, and domestic automation gone wrong in Gun...

Write your own obituaryErase your own life historyThe end of ourselves approaches us fastLaugh as our problems fade into the pastThe four interlinking stories of All Our Forgotten Futures present a puzzle box that slowly reveals the horrors waiting within. The impossible choices forced upon each person profoundly affect others miles and years away. Selflessness has its limits in the face of paranoia, terror, and the unknowable where even the smallest indecision...

The end of the world in five minutes or less! Three dozen tales of bad people and bad decisions across the galaxy or maybe just on their lunch break. Brady Koch (Guns, Gods & Robots) boils the short story format to it's essence and offers science fiction, horror, and criminal misdeeds in these bite sized tales.

Xyggy and Church is the short story of two assassins who've been contracted to eliminate all of Gonzo Goldstein's competitors in the settlement called Newtown before an influx of newcomers arrive…just in time for Gonzo to hold the monopoly on sin.

Bob, Clementine, and Miss Lamphead's entire class find themselves mysteriously transported to the domain of the Exceptionally Eggy Game Gators. Will Bob and Clementine find their way out of the gators' maze in time to save themselves and the world?

A disease has overtaken the world. One by one the major nations have fallen, as its citizens succumb to an evil virus that turns them into mindless, flesh-eating monsters, dubbed 'zombies' by the media.In Australia, there isn't a family that isn't touched by the disease in some way. Some people develop the symptoms for themselves, while others lose family members as prey to the foul beasts. Others are merely inconvenienced by government programs intending to protect them.He...

Rob Matheson's a fighter. Flattening enemies with his fists or with his legendary practical jokes, he's a tough enemy, and a troublesome friend. But Rob doesn't know how much longer he can keep up the act. As his buddies get married one by one, he's left with his lonely life - and the sinking feeling he lost more than his dreams when he traded them for a thick skin. Now Rob's father has issued a challenge - he'll give 200 acres of prime Montana ranchland to the first of his four sons to we...

Bryan Armstrong and Kyle Detwiler, two college students on the cusp of graduation, are the lucky winners of a contest to become interns on the paranormal television show The Specter Slayers.Their excitement turns to jubilation when they discover that they'll be aiding in the investigation of The Danver Church, one of the most haunted places in America. Nestled in the remote mountains of Pennsylvania, the church is world renowned for the massacre that occurred there forty years earl...