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Six short stories. Worlds of possibilities. The future, both near and distant. Alternate and plausible realities. Messages of hope and of doom. Fate, chance, and definitely choices.

He'll never let me go. I'll never stop running. When the bratva try to get me to throw my championship fight, I flip them one middle finger and decimate their candidate. I knew my actions wouldn't go unpunished, but I didn't care. I'm unbreakable. I’m surrounded, outmanned, outgunned and I'm ready to fight my way out. I think I’m all alone until a familiar, deep British voice says, “Play fair now. The lady gets to beat you, one at a time.” My one-night-stand has deep connections I knew nothing about, and he's willing to start a war just to get me where he wants me.

Living as human prey beneath the earth, Fiona knew that anything would be better than the life that stretched ahead. The stars made an offer and she took it. Used as a sexual trading card between the rich and powerful survivors of the lethal impact has left Fiona with an urge for change. She needs out and the offer from an alien race to be a bondservant until she paid out her transport and training is an offer she wants to take them up on.

What happens when a United States military dog unit lands on a small island controlled by the Japanese military during World War II? This story was inspired by true events. In about 1987, the events were described to the author by a man who was there. The names are fictitious and do not reflect real people, living or dead.

After a planet-killing asteroid, humanity has to huddle under shelters and live in the dimmest of places. A year of brutal survival and the breakdown of society leave Hannah less than hopeful of her prospects in the new world.

Caleb Ledger’s escape from the Myrkur and the theft of one of their sailing sloops has made him some powerful foes. Foes who’ll throw in squadrons of ships and broadsides of cannon to sink his vessel or take his crew as a prize.

Finn Thorsten—They say time heals all wounds. I thought I had gotten over high school trauma until the bane of my adolescence, Lesley Armstrong, put the toy manufacturing company I and most of the town work at on notice that we would be shut down on CHRISTMAS! I knew she was heartless, but this is a new low. How far am I willing to go to save my town?

Caleb Ledger’s successful running battles against the Myrkur lead the cultists to try an all-for-nothing bid to stop him from escaping the seas under their control. Ahead of the new pirate captain lies a vast maelstrom, deadly currents, and decks bristling with eighteen-pounder cannon. His newfound skills and magic as a veteran Weathermancer and Corsair give him and his crew a fighting chance. Controlling the winds and boosting actions with piratical flair has worked well for him and his crew so far.

I'm 'Wild' Wade Collins, defenseman for The Eagles. Drafted at eighteen, I have my life mapped out, until it all comes crashing down around me. Which is how I find myself being managed by a specialist team, the threat of transfer looming over me if I don't learn to behave. I can't lose my spot...

I'm Leroy Mahoney, of Bartley and Mahoney's Investigation Agency. If you're dead and got a problem I am the one you go to see. My office is still parked on 34th and Main St. Being dead is a lot more dangerous than I was expecting. Beyond the veil, monsters are waiting to devour and entrap souls for eternity. The Guardians are there to protect the departed on their way to the afterlife. If a someone doesn’t cross over before they fade completely, they turn into a Shade. Until the dead can let go of their mortal lives and release their tethers, they can’t pass on. That’s where I come in.

Jack Matthews is caught driving home in a heavy storm. When he stops to help a young boy stranded in the rain, little does he know that he is entering a strange and sinister world. Black suited men are chasing the boy, and now Jack, and he realizes that he may never escape from the world in which he now finds himself.

A man and a dog walk through a ruined world, fighting monsters. Is everything as it seems?

Of all the Jewish thinkers that arose in the 20th century, none stands out as revolutionary and as controversial as Mordecai Kaplan. Kaplan was paradoxical. Despite his commitment to Jewish life as generally recognizable to traditionally oriented Jews, his theological predilections were such that the fundamental nature of Jewish religious identity was transformed in his reconstruction of Judaism. While Kaplan was vilified by many Orthodox and finally excommunicated by the rabbis of Agudath Israel, not all his right of center critics were ready to dismiss him completely.

Growing up together in Laredo, Texas, Juliana and ‘Gordo’ are inseparable. That is, until Juliana's mother passes away and her father moves them to California. Juliana is devastated and loses contact with her best friend. But as the years pass, the hurt fades. Years later, in California, Juliana follows in her late mother's footsteps and becomes a teacher. Feeling a longing to return to her roots, she makes the decision to go back to Texas.