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Buckle up for an explosive ride into the heart of battle with 'Contested Landing' – the ultimate anthology of military science fiction that'll leave you on the edge of your seat! Get ready to dive headfirst into the fray as fearless defenders clash with relentless invaders in heart-pounding actions across the cosmos. From pulse-pounding firefights to jaw-dropping heroics, these adrenaline-fueled tales will thrust you into the heart of interstellar conflict like never before.

Gears grind in this steampunk collection. From sky pirates, elite businessmen and inventors, these characters use steampunk technology to their advantage. From cities brimming with life to apocalyptic wastelands, survival oftentimes comes with a hefty price. This collection features stories by Harry Fritsch, Robert Allen Lupton, Katie Jordan, Lincoln Reed, Daniel Barlekamp, Davin Ireland, A.R. Turner, Barend Nieuwstraten III, R.C. Capasso, D.L. Smith-Lee, Douglas Allen Gohl, and Toni Mobley.

SSarok conquered his own world, a world ruled by violence and strength, a world where might makes right, and bored with his success, traveled to Earth seeking new challenges and literally, a new world to conquer. All he knows about Earth is what he read in Shakespeare's play, but the world changed since the Bard wrote Hamlet. Ssarok hadn't counted a society of rules, media, fragmented governments, protest groups, and lawyers. Especially lawyers. A planet where you can't just kill people was a whole new world. And the money thing, that was different. Survival of the fittest may still apply, ...

Everyone at one time or another has wished that they could go back in time and change something. Perhaps to prevent a world tragedy, kill a despot, or tell an ancestor not to drive to town on a certain day. Perhaps the journey backward would be to obtain foreknowledge about the lottery, the presidential election, the stock market, or even the World Series. The reasons to wish for time travel are legion, but if the truth be told, if we could go back in time, the first thing most of us would do would be to punch our younger selves square in the face. Changing time can have unexpected and dire...

Enter the Veil. The infamous Fae are most known for their sly ways. While tricking humans may be their specialty, they don't always show kindness toward their own kin either. The grander the scheme, the larger their boasting rights. From Sidhe, gnomes, brownies, and more, you'll always need to be on guard and vigilant. Featuring stories by Christopher Pate, Kevin A. Davis, Ben Howels, Toni Mobley, Ally Kelly, Michael A. Epanchin, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Robert Allen Lupton, Jasiah Witkofsky, J. Woolston Carr, Aaron Van Treeck, Gray Stanback, and Charles Wiegand.

After rescuing the tribal members from their enemies and banding together to create a new home free of the superstitions of the past, twin sisters, Teena and Teesha, are forced to protect their makeshift tribe of children, outcasts, and shape shifters against wolfen, dragons, and the dark scary things that lurk in the primeval forest. Can their sisterhood and the clan survive.

This book was revised and updated in May 2024. There are hundreds of books telling you how to run. This isn't one of them. This book is about the troubles that lurk on the trail. Ghosts, goblins, ancient gods, criminals, aliens, and creatures of the night are out there waiting for the unwary to run straight to them. Lace of your shoes and be careful out there. There's no telling what you might step in. Seventeen tales of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, adventure, and horror - with a little humor thrown in for good measure. Each story includes five rules for running. Most of the rules are...

Darkness is a journey and a destination, it is the madness inside the soul fighting for control, and it is dark at the bottom of the stairs. Some seek darkness like moths drawn to the flame and some are captured by the darkness, caught unaware. Contained herein are twenty-five stories, some about the seeker and some about the sought. Sometimes, but rarely, humor and happiness are revealed once the darkness is confronted, but most often darkness hides terrors from within or perils from the malicious menaces lurking in the shadows. Most people cringe in silence when darkness calls their name,...

This horror story which takes place during the Boer Wars in South Africa is a slightly over 10,000 words long. English forces took refuge in the small town of Ladysmith, in what is now South Africa. The Boer army surrounded the city and layed siege. They shelled the city relentlessly for over two months, killing civilians and combatants without mercy. During the siege, a witch doctor with strange powers and a malignant disposition, uses his witchcraft to prey on British and Boer alike. The British don't belive in his powers and neither do the Afrikaners, leaving a small band of women to ...

Robert Allen Lupton's third collection of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and adventure stories are tempered with wit and humor. Journey from the edges of the galaxy to the high desert of New Mexico, from fairy lands to stone castles guarding ancient coastlines. Meet swordsmen and brew masters, genies and sheriffs, wrestlers and robots, and travel on space ships and ghost trains. Nothing's quite the way it looks and even the most evil villain and the most noble hero learn not to take themselves too seriously.

IN RESTLESS DREAMS is Robert's seventh short story collection. and as always, is a mixture or horror, fantasy, science fiction and mystery, with a strong touch of humor and sarcasm thrown in to sweeten the pot. Stories from beyond the farthest star to the American Southwest. Gods and Goddesses, good and evil, fight to save themselves or to save humanity. Trolls, elves, fairies and human children strive for supremacy. Fairy tales and alien invasions. Four holiday tales are included, "A Baker House Christmas," Broomsticks and Chocolates," "Witch for Hire," and "A Trifling Problem." Many of ...

Twin sisters and their rite mates have reached the age to complete the ritual of adulthood and become double-natured members of their clan, the Foxborn, giving them ability to walk as foxes or humans, but before they can complete the ceremony, the girls find themselves in a fight for their lives. To save themselves and their clan, they are forced to form an uneasy alliance with the kidnapped children from enemy clans. If they want to preserve their way of life, they must traverse dangerous forests and mountains, defeat the wolfen, and rescue their siblings, all without their Foxborn ...

Dejanna, the great granddaughter of her planet's most beautiful woman and her world's Earth-man Overlord, is stolen by a rejected suitor. Pregnant, she is stranded alone in the wilderness with only her wits to save her from the planet's savage beasts and nomadic warriors. While she seeks safety, her husband searches the dangerous swamps for his wife and unborn child. Their quests put them both on a collision course with the most dangerous and warlike creatures on the planet - the savage Sarapou tribe of Zirkas, a race of gigantic and sentient insectoid beings whose thirst for power and ...

Here’s the first book of Marvin, a cigar-smoking, hard drinking, time traveling rascal of a pixie with the moral standards of a rabbit in heat. He’s been sentenced by the King of the Pixies to help people who the king wants helped. At best, Marvin is a conscripted agent completing his assignments with the help of his magic snot and a large red fairy named Grandma. At worst, well, let’s just say that you wouldn’t want to meet him at his worst. I started writing these five years ago. I considered including his stories in some of my earlier book collections, but Marvin insisted that if...

SWIM WITH THE BEAVERS. selected as one of the "Best Indie Speculative Fiction Stories 2018" is an American fairy tale, not unlike Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill. In the days when Americans traveled west to setttle the frontier, a young boy is washed away in a flood. He is saved and raised by colony of beavers. As he grows older is is called upon to use his human skills to save the beaver colony and his beaver skills to save a human settlement.

Through a Wine Glass Darkly. updated in 2024, contains fifteen tales of horror, mystery, humor, and science fiction previously published between 2016 and 2018, including the award winning short story, "Swim With The Beavers," and three stories that received honorable mention status in the Writers of The Future Contes .Also included are six drabbles originally published in the Horror Tree anthology, Trembling With Fear - Year One. A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words. One new story, "Cruising With Eddie" is included in this volume. Scary, evocative, whimsical, and funny - all at the ...

Visions Softly Creeping is Robert's sixth collection of short stories. It includes his FIVE STAR rated short story, "BEST LAID PLANS. Herein there be dragons, pirates, witches, mind thieves, elves, and vampires in outer space. Heroes abound including Thai swordsmen and superpowered humans. i\Inside there's a murderess or two, a scorned princess, a planet where the forest protects itself, and even a junkyard where old car parts build themselves into robots with an attitude. Scary, funny, serious, and engaging stories of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and myths revisited, with ...

This 10,000 word short story won an honorable mention in 2017 from the "Writers of the Future" contest. It sold twice prior to its first publication in my collection, "Through A Wine Glass Darkly," published by the Australian publisher, "Gypsum Sound Tales. The first two sales were to a magazine in the UK. I got paid, but it went out of business before publication. An well-known online magazine bought the story and paid me the then current professional rate, but ceased publishing, as well. Didn't seem fair to submit it anywhere else, I'd like folks to stay in business. In the 21st Century, ...