Fantasy Short Stories

The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit. An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon.... A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent.... A renegade returns from seclusion to bury an old comrade....

Music is Magic In the heart of New Orleans, Gabriel, son of the legendary Henri Moreau, prepares for his big break-- an audition to get into NOCCA and finally step out of his father's shadow. Everything about his life revolves around the man his father was, even living in a museum his mother Jasmine created to celebrate Henri's legacy.When Gabriel discovers a mysterious egg in Bayou St John he begins to discover how magical music can be. The Bayou Dragon is a middle grade fantasy novella set in New Orleans and Los Angeles. It centers around legacy, identity, family, and the power of music. ...

Determined to reevaluate her life, Jude Murray flees America to take refuge in Faerie Hill Cottage, immersing herself in the study of Irish folklore and discovering hope for the future of the magical past. Finally back home in Ireland after years of traveling, Aidan Gallagher possesses an uncommon understanding of his country’s haunting myths.

Step inside the room in Grandma's house. What if there was a locked room in our grandparents' house that gave you a glimpse into their past? A mysterious room that held their secrets, their hopes, and their dreams? When Tiffany Warren is sent to pack up her grandmother's house, she finds a locked room on the third floor, but where is the key? After searching the house from top to bottom, she finds the key and opens the door, and what happens next changes her life forever. The Room in Grandma's House is a short, fantasy story of about 12,000 words that can be read in under two hours.

Desert Storm. A mysterious figure half-seen in the heat rising from the hot sands of Kuwait. A series of supernatural events that leave the crewmen of an American IFV wondering if there is more to the legend of the djinn than they knew.

"I Scream Man”, a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in the Winter 1984 edition of The Horror Show.

On Mars, a scientist experiments with a new engine that will one day become the drive that fuels humanity's journey into the stars. On an asteroid station, a group of prisoners are oblivious to the catastrophe that awaits them. On a future Earth beset by overpopulation, pollution, and poverty, a crime boss desperately seeks to find a way off planet. On an alien world, a human family struggles to establish a colony and make a new home. All these stories and more are featured in this unmissable collection of short fiction set in the hardscrabble world of The Expanse.

The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come? Multi-award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series.

Marvin has lived through a lot in his life, and remembers all of it through his photographic memory. With his wife’s passing, and his daughter’s growing family, his memory is all he has left, until something awakens in the aisle of Fear. Everything he knows and loves is in jeopardy. He’s fighting for more than his life, he’s fighting for his mind. Without memory, we are without history.

Tanner and Mason have been friends forever. Now that they're living in the same dorm room at college, they abide by the Bro Code. Rule 1: always have your bro's back. Rule 2: always cover for your bro. Rule 3: always pay your bro back. As a ladies' man Mason is always calling on Tanner for help with Rule 1, but that means he owes Tanner a lot of favors. As a serious student, Tanner doesn't have a lot of time for the ladies, but he knows he's been stocking up on favors from Mason. Now that he has enough favors, he can call on the ultimate favor, a request that Mason can't refuse. Before ...

One Hour of fated mates erotica! ..scorching smut, just the way it should be! So hot they'll make you close the door to your own private lair! If you’ve ever wanted your own hard-muscled shifter, well-equipped gargoyle, alien overlord or a witchy encounter that will fulfill all your lustful warlock fantasies, this smutty collection of erotic fated mates stories will get you where you’re going, fast. Guaranteed to help you explode over and over again! These bite-sized stories are a bundle of eight fifteen-minute reads which include the Delazney Witches 1-4. Mated to the Enemy, Mated to ...

Young omega Gabriel’s effort to live entirely as a human has been mostly successful, but recently his nights have been filled with vivid dreams of two virile alpha werewolves. He’s been psychically marked for mating by alphas in heat, and now they’re coming to claim him – right in his college classroom! This smoking hot deal of a bundle contains all three chapters of The PROFESSORS and the OMEGA series, following Gabriel’s thrilling and sexy adventures with his two hunky alpha professors! This smoldering hot gay shifter paranormal romance story will satisfy all your naughty ...

Rew, the King’s Ranger, accepted a role on the far edge of the realm to avoid the morass of intrigue and betrayal that bleeds from the heart of the kingdom. His only desire is to shoulder the burden he’s taken, to protect the village of Eastwatch, and to monitor the wilderness beyond. When three youths are arrested for petty theft in the village and beg for help, Rew’s friend insists he take responsibility for them. By ties stronger than steel, Rew is forced onto a path he knows leads to chaos. The King’s Ranger will battle to grant the youths a life he never had a chance of.

China thought it would be a quick war, an easy war. But now, years later, as the insurgency on the streets of Los Angeles escalates but the propaganda never changes, a Chinese officer can’t keep silent any longer. Torn between loyalty to his country and loyalty to his troops, he writes a brutally honest—and possibly suicidal—letter home to unmask the truth. Brooks combines his signature meticulous research with unforgettable characters in this landmark work of speculative fiction.

If you like Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, Thriller, Serials with Surprise Endings, and stories with a plot, Billy Wells Horror is for you. Billy Wells Horror's average review rating for all horror collections is 4.3! Twelve stories from the warped mind of Billy Wells. Scary Stories-Volume 5 is the eighth collection of short stories mostly in the horror genre with surprise endings by Billy Wells. Please be aware that some of these offerings are quite gruesome and not for those readers whose parents did not let them watch scary movies and TV shows as a child. ...

Brad and Jason had been stepbrothers for several years and never much got along. They were too different. Brad was an all-star quarterback in college and Jason more reserved and brainy. When Brad comes home for the summer, Jason is not looking forward to his visit, but he realizes quickly that something about Brad has changed. He is being nice to him and though he’s suspicious, he finds himself going on a camping trip with him and a friend of Jason’s. Disaster strikes and Brad steps up to save his stepbrother, staying with him through his recovery. Jason finds himself falling for him ...

The idea of steamy adult romances, sexual encounters that set your pulse racing or activities you may never be brave enough to try for yourself, is something that lurks deep inside many of us. Being involved in a threesome or a gangbang may sound like something you’d never get involved in but listening to it may be just enough to satisfy your curious nature.

In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil.... Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.

A collection of 20 classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall”.

Jack lives with his girlfriend Mia in a big house near campus. Technically, it's in her mother's name, and she pays the lion's share of the rent so it's no surprise when she shows up to spend the weekend there, as Mia is going away on a mini vacation with her friends. Angela is recently divorced, and desperately in need of intimate touch. She also just so happens to have a thing for younger men, and struggles saying no because she's such a people pleaser. Jack's eyeballs fly out of his head when he sees her cleavage, and the starter pistol for the eye contact Olympics goes off while he ...