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Time Travel Tales & Other Short Stories contains a dozen tales dealing with time travel, suspense, mystery, and a hit man named Tanner.

Geeks Rule: Computer nerd Lewis Puller seemed like an easy target, but when a gang of skinheads come after him they get more than they bargained for...much more. For Mommy: A father and his young son heading to the forest, trying to recover from the loss of the beloved wife and mother killed in a DUI accident, stumble across a chance to set things right.

From the twisted mind of horror master Thomas M. Malafarina comes the ninth short story collection in his Malaformed Realities series, appropriately entitled Malaformed Realities Volume 9. With twenty terrifying tales of horror such as the Smudge Pot, The Leaper, Tail Gunner Joe, and many more, Thomas takes you into the deepest and darkest recesses of his bizarre imagination. Stories included in this volume: Gone 38 Caliber Nepenthes Rajah (A Norliss Tapes Story) Smudge Pot Space Girl Leather Apron Mausoleum Subhumans Because … Just Because The Leaper Scrambled Eggs The Thing About Barbie...

In 2021, the Panama Papers exposed a web of corruption, revealing how the global elite dodged taxes and hoarded wealth. Among the lush and secretive havens of the Cayman Islands, Eloise Deen emerges, on a relentless hunt for stolen fortunes. Known for her unyielding resolve and a knack for persuasion that borders on the lethal, Eloise is a force to be reckoned with. She's well aware that stealing the money is the easy part... getting away with it is a killer. Dive into this short tale where the stakes are as dangerous as the secrets uncovered, and where getting what you want might just cost...

The deadliest wounds are often unseen. In the gritty underworld of Los Angeles, mob boss Gutierrez is on a mission to purge his organization of traitors. However, as he inches closer to the truth, a mysterious adversary targets his loyal gang members in a document leaked to the Internet. With the clock ticking and the shadows deepening, newly-benched vice cop, Rivera, extends a lifeline that will get Gutierrez out of town—propelling him into a white-knuckled investigation of an underground Florida fight club. Navigating a web of deceit, they're also tasked with protecting Captain Taylor's...

Book eighteen in the Twisted Short Stories series reveals some home truths. Best never to discover! Romancing The Stones: A man's secret love life unfolds as he takes his girlfriend to a graveyard for romance while his wife lies dying at home, revealing a web of deceit and hidden desires. But she gets her revenge. A Message In A Shadow: When a granddaughter attempts to bond with her grandmother, she stumbles upon shocking family secrets that cast a dark shadow over her family's history. The Runner's Scythe: Pippa encounters an 80-year-old man who defies his age by running, leading her to ...

Written by Scottish-Canadian author John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), The Runagates Club is a collection of twelve short stories focusing on members of the eponymous London dining society.

It’s the hottest winter on record, but Raymond’s demanding, bedridden mother doesn’t mind. She likes it warm. Lately, however, control over the thermostat has become a nasty struggle. And each morning that she’s still alive is a suffocating new challenge for Raymond. How high can the mercury climb before he boils over?

Twenty-Seven short stories from Edgar Award-winning author John Lutz. Private Eyes, mysteries, and memorable characters.

Intrigued by his inability to die, his regenerative powers & because capturing and detaining him has proved impossible & comes with mass casualties. A secret government agency decided to make camp crystal lake Jason's prison. Using every resource at their disposal the initiated an expedited almost impossible mission & constructed a tall solid steel barricade with beyond deadly electric fences and razor wire around the Crystal Lake Campgrounds & place observation towers around the outside perimeters. Not long after that some Trioxin in the hands of a man with nothing to lose and a huge chip ...

Pilot Pete England used to think there was nothing more exciting in the world than flying off into the wild blue yonder. But lately, the blue yonder hasn’t been wild at all...it’s been downright dull. Pete’s hungry for adventure - and he’s about to get his fill. Pete has fallen into a rut, flying the same route - New York to DC - with the same passengers, day after day after day. He might as well be driving a bus...until “her highness” climbs aboard. Apparently a princess, and for one flight, she’s bought up every ticket on the plane.

Behind the Eyes: Tales of Psychological Terror What if the most dangerous place isn’t a haunted house or a dark alley, but your own mind? In this chilling collection, ordinary lives unravel as reality twists and fractures in ways too intimate to escape. A woman’s new flatmate insists he never touched her belongings, yet she finds a journal in her own handwriting filled with memories she doesn’t recall. A commuter loses an hour of her day, every day, only to discover someone else may be living that missing time for her. A smiling stranger appears in subway cars and grocery aisles, ...

A young pretty teacher hiding a terrible secret, a young man grieving the loss of his parents, and an appointment with fate all collide in a small Oklahoma town during the 1970s. The tender, sweet and forbidden is sensitively dealt with in this atmospheric rural noir which will inevitably explode in violence, and require a miracle for anyone at all to survive…

Previously published in Tactical Life magazine as an episodic short story. In this Origins war short story, Drake Woolf, the "Man from Orange," is sent on a singleton operation to the Afghan-Pakistan border for a secretive meeting with an ISI spy chief. Little does he know of a back-room US negotiation that puts his life on the line, as he is tasked with a political assassination during an event in the dangerous FATA territory. The choice: Kill or be killed.

Six Stories. One Dark Collection. Twists Await. Step into a world where shadows linger and danger lurks in unexpected places. In Ginger Memories, a nostalgic aroma brings unsettling revelations. Amelia's Cats takes you on a perilous chase as a girl follows a feline into the unknown. The glittering streets of Bangkok Shadows hide conmen who face an even deadlier con. For a man in Deadly Cricket, love of the game risks everything—his family included. A High Stakes Wedding becomes a perilous game when secrets unfold. Finally, Finding Forever proves that chasing happiness can lead to ...

When the last elevator dings and the cubicles fall silent, the office doesn’t sleep—it watches. After Hours: Office Hauntings and Stalker Tales is a chilling collection of first-person encounters with the unexplainable in the most ordinary of places: the workplace after dark. From phantom coworkers who leave steaming mugs of coffee, to doubles caught on security cameras, to faces smiling from the windows fourteen stories up, each story takes the reader into the eerie quiet of the late-night office where isolation turns every sound into suspicion—and sometimes, into proof you aren’t ...

A young timid woman is forced to make the decision to either be bound by her abusive husband or be freed. However, she failed to realize there is much more than being alleviated from her husband.

When Xander MacKenzie gets the job of assassinating a prominent FBI agent, it's his chance to prove he's still got what it takes. Except sometimes, even the best plans go wrong–and Xander's luck is quickly running out...

Wrongfully accused, Spar has been condemned to suffer the brutality of the guards and the conditions on Devil’s Island. But they haven’t broken his will, and now, escaping, he has one mission in life: revenge. Spar’s out to kill the man who put him into the devil’s hands. But he’ll have to take on a gallery of rogues who are as treacherous as the waters of the Caribbean.

Cassie Bridgestone’s life is simple. Along with running her country décor shop, she loves to cuddle her cat, sip tea, attend church, and watch birds. But then, things go awry. First, the handsome but mysterious Daniel opens a bookstore in her building and challenges her to face long-buried feelings about her previous relationship. Then, a friendly fishing tournament turns deadly and her friend is accused of murder, throwing Cassie’s world into a tailspin she might never recover from.