Stories

Twelve-year-old Carlos suspects today is not going to be good. A boy from the spokes is coming to live with his family and Carlos has to give up the bottom bunk. Stefan has read all about living rim-ward, so he knows a little about what will occur in the perpetual summer of living on a farm along the rim. He’d like to know more but the source of that information is napping next to him. Both boys do not know their lives are going to dramatically change within the hour.

Jordan Bricks has just been involved in a serious accident. Pulled from the wreckage and rushed to the hospital...he was clinically dead...for six minutes. After being revived by doctors, Jordan is thankful to be alive. But it appears that death has not relinquished its hold on him just yet. Are they illusions, these horrible things he sees lurking in the shadows? Or is the truth about what happens to us after we die...more terrifying than we ever could have imagined?

Although many had been worried about the supposed Mayan prediction of an apocalypse, the feared date passed without incident. Suddenly, everyone began to feel safe again, but were they truly out of the woods now? This story could apply to any apocalyptic scenario

This story is part of the 2012 Mayan Tribute Antholoty - End of the World.

Noah needs help, and Adrai K'loemach is the only one with the resources to do it.

Dee runs a half way house for aliens escaping from medical and government research facilities. One day he finds a boy with bright blue hair half dead in the snow. The boy turns out to be something quite different to what he initially thought and they go on a journey of discovery finding new things in each other every day and discover the singular delight of sex with tentacles.

Sergeant Liam Jacks has made a life for himself on the cargo vessel the Santa Claus to escape the memories on civil unrest on Alpha Centauri.

Life should be simple enough, but one mysterious passenger can unravel the quiet in ways he hadn't imagined.

***NOMINATED FOR BEST PROMISING AUTHOR STORY IN THE 2013 READERS CHOICE AWARDS***

Pressed for time, Callen Worthwright drives down a treacherous route back from his snowboarding trip. The roads are icy; the snowstorm is a whiteout, and his car skids straight into the Pacific Ocean.

Hanging desperately on to life, a supernatural presence grants him a second chance at redemption. Callen is propelled kilometres across the continent to visit a long-lost friend whom he never had the chance to admit his feelings to.

The catch? He only has six hours to live.

Adam was just a normal eighteen year old, struggling with his sexuality and wishing he was just a normal straight guy who didn't have to deal with the rejection and heartache of coming out. To cope he has immersed himself in books and ignored his sexuality as best as he can; however on his eighteenth birthday he gives into temptation and then loses everything.

The year is 2318, and Mankind has gone to the stars leaving a dying Earth. Mankind's descendants now populate the Terran Federation, a group of 200 worlds held together by uneasy bonds. A veneer of calm hides tensions; Man may have left Earth but he has brought most of its problems with him to the stars. The veneer of calm is about to be shattered though, and one man finds himself reluctantly thrown into the vortex, his fate and the Federation's linked.

Garret Lars was a clone designed and created to command troops. When the war ended suddenly, political manipulation landed him in a geisha house. He's not there long before the truth sets him free.