Stunning Short Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Otherworldly adventures to touch your heart and thrill your imagination.

Four superb authors present short stories ranging from hard science fiction to ghostly fantasy. Whatever your mood, you'll find a captivating tale.

A charming fable turns grisly as a scullery maid risks everything to save her daughter from a deadly mystery;
For a psychic fraud, chatting with spirits can't end well on Friday the 13th;
A trunk-nosed alien sniffs out the truth behind a smuggler's fatal delivery;
This chemist searches Jupiter's storms for life, but finds catastrophe...
and more engaging stories.

Collection of eight tales, each offered in a distinct style with unique characters.

Winner of the 2021 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards, eFiction category.

Alethea Eason writes short stories, novels, and poetry in Silver City, New Mexico.She currently is working on the fantasy novel Whispers of the Old Ones and hopes to publish it in early 2021.She has won awards for both her short stories and her poetry. Please check out her artwork on Instagram at: alethea.art.

Kris Neri writes the Tracy Eaton mysteries, REVENGE OF THE GYPSY QUEEN, DEM BONES' REVENGE, REVENGE FOR OLD TIMES' SAKE, and REVENGE ON ROUTE 66, and the Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery series, HIGH CRIMES ON THE MAGICAL PLANE and MAGICAL ALIENATION. Her latest novel, HOPSCOTCH LIFE, an accept-yourself-in-all-your-glory novel, is her first women's fiction-crime crossover. HOPSCOTCH LIFE recently won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award winner.

Kris's novels have been nominated for such prestigious awards as the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, the International Book Award, the Lefty Award, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. She is a three-time finalist for the Lefty Award for humor, and a three-time finalist for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and a two-time winner.

Kris teaches writing online for the prestigious Writers' Program of the UCLA Extension School, and other organizations, and has worked with countless writers as a writing coach and freelance editor. Also former bookseller, Kris and her husband, Joe, owned The Well Red Coyote bookstore in Sedona, Arizona for ten years. Today they make their home in Silver City, NM.

E J Randolph lives in the mountains of New Mexico. She loves to set her stories in space to explore various sociopolitical aspects. Her background in diplomatic and military history gives her a firm foundation for events that occur in her books set in the Federation Diplomat universe. (The Federation Diplomat and Psy Corps series.)