Derry Brown looks through an otherworldly lens. In Derry's warped sense of reality, a mundane architectural review takes place in a bleak future ruled by high-tech racing. With the executive assistant protesting...
Everyone loves a wedding. You don't want to read something dry and droll. You want to read something smart and funny. Something you can laugh out loud to. "The Wedding Video" melts the most subversive comedies...
Jack Addington is stuck. A carefree life wandering the globe has morphed into a monotonous existence working for an oppressive Manhattan-based software company peddling products which destroy the lives of decent...
From charitable vandals to lovelorn superheroes to mad bombers, the disconsolate characters of the six stories in Anything But Lonely each face their own figurative- and sometimes literal -end of the world.
The Straw That Broke Supermale’s Back How much can a man, especially if he is a superhero, take? Striped searched and sent to the pokey as an illegal alien. Locked up with liars, thieves, and murderers and...
Nothing succeeds like excess. Outrageous Hollywood super producer Don Simpson wants to do something good with his life. But all the hookers and drug dealers and movie stars just keep getting in the way. Simpson...
Mirror, mirror on the wall which is the most scary institution of them all? FBI, CIA, SETI ... No! It's the loan banks and the US Copyright Office that are scariest of all... A man can accomplish heroic deeds,...
Morana is an Angel of Death, Alter a Demon of Death. Sharing a flat (for convenience), while working on opposite sides of the same business, they are suddenly forced to work together to solve the ultimate question:...
The first episode of the cyberpunk space opera adventures of Xolo, a man who replaced his conscience with a machine. A routine assassination on a synthetic planet gets complicated when Xolo stupidly rescues...
An Australian public servant had the audacity to tell world leaders to disarm. While he was around, there would be no nuclear war. He held all the trump cards and so would his son. Penberthy was a happy man...
Oscar Wilde and H.G. Wells, young writers on the verge of fame, accept an invitation to dinner from a scientist with a time machine. On a lark the two climb in and find themselves in modern day, to humorous...
The first ever television interview with fiction author Ivana Hruba in which the word really is mentioned a lot and mysteries of her great literary works all but revealed.
Do you remember your first day on the job? Engaging writer's first day on the job at James Patterson, Inc. He wants to make a good impression but it's not going to be as easy as he thought. If only he didn't...
This free ebook is a speculative and satirical short story about the health care industries assuming dictatorial powers in a recognizable near future society. Healthy or Else tells the story of one family's...
A few centuries into the future, not much has changed about the basic characteristic of civilization, which is incompetence and boorishness. Wishing to end the world, the angels are left to their own devices...
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