Apocalyptic Satire

Alien invasions and countless other traumas are coming your way. Being snug in bed with the covers pulled over your head or desperately searching social media for happier news won’t protect you. Uncovering the truth is pointless because nobody will ever believe or care when you scream. You are alone and desperate in a planet-sized crowded room. Jaymes Shore’s latest anthology features thirty-two bleak tales of science fiction, speculative fiction, and dark satire. These adventures concern some very nasty visitors from space, unpleasant transformations, technological nightmares, forced ...

Galapagos takes the listener back one million years to AD 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, totally different human race. Kurt Vonnegut, America's master satirist, looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry - and all that is worth saving.

“Brilliantly written! Dystopian thriller packed with humor, heart, and horror. Eight charity volunteers go on a macabre journey and confront the most consequential moral message of our time. They must decide whether to embrace it or hide out at a mattress store in a Baltimore mini-mall.” – Bruce Goldberg, best-selling author “Original! Funny! Surprising! A wake-up call for a world that has gone astray.” – Cynthia Shortreed, editor “An imaginative sci-fi masterpiece with unexpected twists and turns. It forces you to rethink your values. You’ll never look at life, compassion, ...

I played all those cool video games. I watched all those movies. I even read the books. In most of 'em, the hero shoots the bad guys, drives a sweet car, never gets hungry, and always seems to get laid by the end. Yeah. Whatever. I gotta be straight with you about why I wrote this journal, and it comes down to one thing, the apocalypse kinda sucks. It doesn’t meet my expectations at all.

In a perfect world where everyone destroys everything and eats human flesh, one zombie has had enough: Buck Burger. When he rebels at the natural disorder, his marriage starts deteriorating and a doctor prescribes him an anti-depressant. Buck meets a beautiful green-haired pharmacist fairy named Fairy_26 and quickly becomes a pawn in a cold war between zombies and supernatural creatures.

Part wishful thinking, part nightmare, this book captures the author's daydreams of a post-apocalyptic future. For lovers of the bizarre and absurd. If you enjoy Monty Python, Yes Minister and Tree-friends. This may be the book for you. Zombies aren't all they're cracked up to be. There's worse things out there: people, drop-bears, the endless bureaucracy. Dealing with a Zombie is easy, smash them hard over the head and they'll stop bothering you pretty quick. Trying to make a change in the public service? Prepare for a long and bumpy ride fraught with danger and mayhem! The Day the World ...

The future is blue - endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown. Tetley Abednego is the most beloved girl in Garbagetown, but she’s the only one who knows it. She’s the only one who knows a lot of things: that Garbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world, that it’s full of hope, that you can love someone and 66% hate them all at the same time.

After pacifying the old Earth underground military base and defeating the Sleem, Tyson Dawes and Silken Sands are flush with new items and morties. But the Dearth Conglomerate has been circling over them in Arizona, and they want his land. Which wouldn't be such a problem if the boss weren't such an incompetent and spoiled child.

When the Apocalypse fails, what's a disgraced angel to do? Mercury—rogue cherub, cosmic bureaucrat, and reluctant hero—was this close to retirement when the end of the world didn't quite end. Now, with the dust barely settled from the last disaster, he finds himself inexplicably back on Earth… and things are even weirder than usual. While a demon in Ireland is mistaken for a bestselling author, a cynical reporter watches her career implode, and a mysterious government agency starts poking into supernatural affairs, Mercury is once again caught in the middle of a cosmic mess. From ...

Get ready for a hostile takeover of epic proportions. In BuyMort: Bull Market Mayhem, the end isn't nigh—it's been leveraged, securitized, and is ready to liquidate. Say your prayers and check your credit score because when the celestial ledger closes, you'll want to make sure your cosmic assets are diversified.

Washington DC, Zombie Apocalypse! by James Bachman When the halls of power crumble, survival begins. The infection starts in the heart of Washington D.C., turning politicians, aides, and lobbyists into ravenous undead. As chaos engulfs the nation's capital, a janitor, a fast-food worker, and a grandmother on a mission band together in a desperate bid to escape the hellscape. With the military enforcing brutal quarantine measures and the infected growing in numbers, every decision could mean life or death. As the city burns and democracy dies, can a few unlikely heroes find safety, or will ...

When a bizarre string of unusual corpses washes up on the beaches of San Diego during Halloween week, Detective Lindsey Brant requires more than her usual set of skills to solve the mystery. Joining forces with horror writer James Archer, the two will have to survive a scourge of undead, international killers, unscrupulous reporters, and rogue spies if they're to unravel the long-buried mystery of a deadly virus that could bring humanity to its knees. But their greatest threat to the case may just be surviving each other. See if the two will succeed in saving the world in this irreverent ...

Morag Murray works for the secret government organization responsible for making sure the apocalypse goes as smoothly and as quietly as possible. In her first week on the job, Morag has to hunt down a man-eating starfish, solve a supernatural murder, and, if she's got time, prevent her own inevitable death.

A primate geneticist abducted on an ocean tour. A mysterious cult that worships the spirit of a prehistoric monk. A zombie attack in the Pacific Northwest. What else can unfold when operatives from the newly-formed covert branch ZEST (Zombie Eradication & Studies Team) go into action? Former San Diego Detective Lindsey Brant and bestselling horror writer James Archer get assigned to track down the clues that point to a terrorist bent on creating murderous undead killers but first they must discover which direction their love-hate relationship is heading in this snarky, zombie crime-caper.

At the end of 2019 in a New York conference room, a powerful group of men meet to plan out the year ahead. According to them, 2020 will be a year like no other. According to them, 2020 will mark the beginning of their rule over the entire world. When at the end of 2020 the globalist-run government in Spain initiates The Smart Move, the transportation of its millions of citizens to large cities so as to live as prisoners in pods, those residing in three northern provinces resist this and set up a frontier in the mountains. One morning Gael Serrano, with the company of his dog, leaves his ...

This is the story of Mavis Harvey and her struggle to figure out who is her date, and who goes on a plate. While most high school juniors are worried about acne, grades, and dating, Mavis has a host of issues to deal with, like her appetite for human flesh.

Ketamine: A Collection of Dystopian Fiction Short Stories Step into the shadowed corridors of power, deception, and human frailty in Ketamine, where dystopian landscapes collide with raw satire and the haunting absudity that is modern American politics. From the fall of clown-governed republics to corporate empires fueled by greed, this collection explores the grotesque tragedy of humanity’s struggles against its own creations. James Bachman delivers an unflinching vision of society’s descent into chaos, where rebellion simmers, power corrupts, and survival demands a price. Perfect for ...

In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a time, citizens waiting to enter the country fall under the rule of the power-hungry and tyrannical Phil, setting off a chain of injustice and mass hysteria. An Animal Farm for the 21st century, this is an incendiary political satire of unprecedented imagination, spiky humor, and cautionary appreciation for the hysteric in everyone.

Messiah traces the collapse of Christianity and the rise of the next great religion of Western civilization: Cavism. Founded by undertaker John Cave, Cavism holds that it is a holy thing to die. Packaged by a marketing genius, the new religion conquers the world more quickly than any prior memeplex, but pockets of resistance remain. Eugene Luther, formerly an apostle of Cavism, now a hunted apostate, writes his memoirs as a last gesture of freedom while the noose of a totalitarian religious state tightens around him.

Twenty-one unpleasant and inconvenient nightmares from Humanity’s future. Author Jaymes Shore’s fourth anthology of speculative fiction features satirical, bleak, and disturbing visions of greed, ignorance, and arrogance. Humanity fails at every step as America blows up the moon for national security reasons (one small misstep for mankind), botches up a critical time travel mission (there are no smart phones in the past), transports oil infested with ancient hungry creatures through leaking pipelines, and houses the middle class in cardboard boxes. Other blunders include a restaurant ...