Fort Wayne, Indiana. Fire Station 1. The end of the world.Unintentional consequences cause firefighter Matt Daniels to miss a run (one of the most embarrassing things that can happen to a fireman). Waking up from his near-comatose state, he discovers the world he knows lying in ruins as an alien invasion is under way.While Daniels works to secure the engine house, Ray Starns, a homeless man, discovers an opening and sneaks inside. After the pair discover each other, they mu...

A short story about divorce through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy.

Adam Kluteski (Klutch) escorts his girlfriend, Corra Whitmer, to what he believes is a hoax - a werewolf initiation ritual. The couple soon find themselves running for their lives. A savage betrayal and some quick thinking leave Klutch behind bars at the local police station. Two members of a top secret DARPA branch, Zane Newton and Earlham (no last name), pose as FBI agents and lead the investigation into Corra's disappearance. The search unearths a horrifying plot to increase the werewol...

This short work of fiction details the Soviet efforts to thwart the American moon landing and safe return of the astronauts as well as the countermeasures employed by the US.

Young cryptozoologist Zane Newton decides to spend his 1984 college summer break in search of the mysterious beast of Bray Road. With the increase in sightings, he figures he has as much of a chance as anyone to find it. He even employs some (at the time) cutting-edge technology in his effort to track and capture footage of the creature.Newton stumbles across a few other interesting and uncanny entities during his search.Ultimately coming face to face with the monster chang...

It was supposed to be a dead week. For this mysterious hitman, things just couldn't be that damn easy. The sharp-tongued soul-stealing assassin plods through life with reckless abandon - until he finds a purpose. Until Sarah Brecker.When the contract on her life goes unfilled, all Hell breaks loose (literally). Forced to work together, they must dodge ruthless mobsters and a variety of demons to buy enough time for Sarah. Evading ambushes proves much easier than eluding that damn d...

Time. It wears on us all. Like gravity, it weighs us down with the influence of age. And eventually, time runs out. For every one of us—everyone except Skot. The enormous human/alien hybrid gifted with immortality has to watch as everything he knows succumbs to the crawl of time. A hybrid of human and the much larger deHera species, Skot bears witness to the genocide of the native deHera people. Never truly accepted by the humans, he finds himself banished to a dystopian planet in the sava...

After losing communications during an off-the-books operation, Army Rangers Lieutenant Jason Stafford and Sergeant Miga Raines lead a squadron of soldiers back to mainland America. In their efforts to return to Fort Moore, they discover that a ravenous plague has spread across the globe.As the losses mount, they learn some of the horrific truths about this dreaded airborne virus—including the fact that, for some unknown reason, children are not infected while almost the entire adul...

"A wicked combination of the movies HALLOWEEN and BACKDRAFT."One year after losing one of their own in a tragic house fire, members of the Taylor (Indiana) Fire Department find themselves under attack. Someone goes on a brutal killing rampage and firefighters are the preferred target.As the murders become more brazen—even slaughtering multiple victims at once—Police Chief Erica Kaden and Detective Daniel Cribbs pour themselves into the investigation. As the police departmen...

"Volz crafts a disturbing story that shines a glaring light on human trafficking. He approaches the subject matter with an appropriate sense of gravity and delicacy without sacrificing realism." --Kirkus Review"Tom Volz is the real deal, a name to watch. Jericho Road is a great read, a page-turner with a dynamite story. Buy a copy today!" --Harry Hunsicker, former executive vice president of the Mystery Writers of America and the author of The Devil's CountryAccording to th...

An unrelated series of events – the abduction of eight-year-old BobbyJo Harman and the brutal escape of five prisoners in the Texarkana area – sends James Laudon, Sam Reese and Javier Sanchez into the wilderness of Boggy Creek and the Sulphur River Bottoms. The trio team up with Harley Grainger, a Fouke native known as the best local monster hunter, as the Harman family insists that she was taken by the notorious Fouke Monster.The group encounters much more than they expect during ...

This is a small collection of three short stories - all dealing with homicidal or suicidal characters.Haggard: a struggling firefighter suffers from compassion fatigue.Blame It on Jack Kerouac: a Catholic priest finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.Helpline: an author on the verge of breaking out tries to talk a man off of a ledge.