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Sammy Carter never planned on spending Christmas in Montana again. After eight years in Los Angeles, her engagement explodes in a very public way. Shaken and humiliated, she heads home hoping the quiet will help her breathe. Montana is familiar. Steady. Exactly the kind of place that lets her feel like herself again.

Erosion of Privacy By Terrance E. Dillard In a near-future Detroit that looks almost exactly like today, the city doesn’t collapse —it improves. Traffic flows without interruption. Services resolve before problems surface. Access adapts in real time. Nothing is forced.

Daniel Reyes spent years believing silence was easier than truth. Raised in a home where vulnerability was dismissed and emotions were treated like weakness, he learned to shrink himself to survive. But when a year of loss, betrayal, and unraveling finally forces him to confront the pain he buried as a child, Daniel begins a journey that transforms him in ways he never expected. What begins as a quiet attempt to understand his past becomes a powerful reckoning with generational wounds, paternal absence, and the emotional inheritance so many men are taught to carry alone.

In the 1950s, secret behavioral experiments pushed the limits of the human mind. The records say the program ended. History says the experiment failed. But history only keeps the parts it can explain.

Some stories are told. Others are controlled. Sera Knox built her career asking the questions no one else would. Sharp. Composed. Uncompromising. She has become one of the most trusted voices in media, known for exposing truth in a world that prefers silence. But when a series of subtle inconsistencies begins to surface during her broadcasts, Sera starts to notice something no one else seems willing to acknowledge. The narrative is shifting. Not dramatically. Not enough to alarm. Just enough to redirect. At first, it feels like pressure. Then interference. Then something far more deliberate.

Four boys are born on the same day the sky goes dark over Jerusalem—an omen most dismiss as rumor… until the world starts to bend around them. In the violent years immediately following the Crucifixion, a blinded prophet named Malach is cursed with a terrifying vision: four riders who will one day end the world. He is compelled by a war-scarred angel to scour rival kingdoms and find four newborns, each destined to become a Horseman of the Apocalypse. In Rome’s shadow, Marcus (Conquest) learns that victory begins with control.

A haunting mystery. A legacy of loss. A car that never forgets. When a grieving mechanic restores a forgotten 1960s red coupe, he doesn’t realize he’s resurrecting more than just steel and chrome—he’s awakening something that should have stayed buried.

Carlos carries more than scars—he carries silence, regret, and an envelope of memories too heavy to let go. When the road calls him away from the only home he has known, he sets out alone, guided only by instinct and the ache of what he’s lost. But the forest has its own guardians. A wolf’s howl cuts through the night, stirring echoes of a bond from long ago. As Carlos faces storms, hunger, and a pack that hunts with more than instinct, he discovers that survival is not only about endurance—it is about trust, loyalty, and the courage to begin again.

A teenage boy and his dog face an unimaginable evil in this coming-of-age horror novel. Seth Granger returns home from summer camp to find that there’s something wrong with the people in his small town. Even his dog is behaving strangely. His mother is distant and distracted, but she may have a very good reason: her husband, Seth’s abusive father, has been murdered and dismembered—and several of his limbs have gone missing. This brutal murder is only the latest in a long line of strange occurrences in the tight-knit community.

Do you fit in? Me neither. I wrote these stories for weirdos like you and me. A messed up kid keeps a mightily upset alien prisoner in his barn. Carnage ensues. A hunter pairs up with a mysterious girl to track down a terrifying humanoid predator. Carnage ensues. Aliens commandeer the body of the wrong Taylor Swift. Carnage ensues. A marshmallow toasting fork turns out to be a sacred relic of an alien empire. Carnage ensues. You get the idea. One of these short stories isn’t very short, but I included it anyway.

You’re not imagining it. The people vanishing. The headlines that disappear. The unease you can’t quite name. Caleb is a crisis PR fixer who specializes in erasing scandals—until a classified file crosses his desk and shatters everything he thought was safe. What begins as a routine cover-up spirals into a hidden war involving experimental memory tech, missing children, and a broadcast that was never meant to air. Pursued by agents, activists, and ghosts from his past, Caleb must decide what he believes—and who he becomes—when every version of the truth is weaponized.

When a storm drags Ellie Carter beneath the waves, she wakes aboard a 14th-century ship—alive, chained, and centuries from home. Forced into servitude, Ellie escapes during a brutal pirate attack, only to discover she thrives in the chaos of the high seas. But piracy is more than freedom and gold. It's blood, betrayal, and a deadly hunt for a cursed treasure called The Devil's Teeth. As rival pirates and the king's navy close in, Ellie must choose: find a way back to her own time... or embrace the ruthless, thrilling life of a pirate queen.