The System Apocalypse Short Story Anthology II: A LitRPG post-apocalyptic fantasy and science fiction anthology: 2

Dashing tales of heroics and everyday life abound in the second System Apocalypse short story anthology. Competing alien and human settlements clash, and a simple party planner is caught between in After Party. A New York trashman and his friend fight off loan sharks and exploit the System for gain, finding treasure among others garbage in Completely Trashed and a prisoner must decide between his humanity and humanity itself in WWMRD?

With over ten stories from exciting new voices and a few veterans of the universe, the second anthology highlights the lives and struggles of humanity's best and worst years after System advent.

The second System Apocalypse short story anthology takes place between books 4 and 6 and covers years two to six during that period.

Stories and writers featured in this anthology include:

• After Party by D.J. Rezlaw
• Daisy's Preschool for Little Adventurers by InkWitch
• Ground Control by Craig Hamilton
• Song of Whispers by Andrew Tarkin Coleman
• Completely Trashed by Mike Parsons
• Trouble Brewing by Nick Steele
• Seeking and Finding by Chelsea Luckritz
• When Our Hero Kills a Ten Story Behemoth by Tao Wong
• The Tower of Doom by David R. Packer
• Clipper Race by Corwyn Callahan
• The Audacity of Soap by E. C. Godhand
• WWMRD? by Jason J. Willis

Tao Wong is a Canadian author based in Toronto who is best known for his System Apocalypse post-apocalyptic LitRPG series and A Thousand Li, a Chinese xianxia fantasy series. His work has been released in audio, paperback, hardcover and ebook formats and translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and other languages. He was shortlisted for the UK Kindle Storyteller award in 2021 for his work, A Thousand Li: the Second Sect.When he's not writing and working, he's practicing martial arts, reading and dreaming up new worlds.Tao became a full-time author in 2019 and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), Novelists International and ALLI.

Craig Hamilton spends most of his day as a technical sales engineer, translating specifications and talking about IT infrastructure. While writing has been taking up most of his free time lately, Craig also appreciates playing tabletop RPGs or board games with friends. When his inner introvert demands a break from polite company, Craig can be found sprawled on a couch with a book or e-reader.

E.C. Godhand is a LitRPG author by profession and nurse by trade. She writes with Shadow Alley Press, runs a community garden, and fosters orphaned kittens. She's always mained healer, whether in video games or real life, and loves game design, wordplay, and psychology.All proceeds from book sales will go directly to supporting her habit of living so she can keep writing for you. She's been rumored to eat up to three times a day even. At the very least, the kittens need to be fed. Don't buy the books for her though. Do it for fun LitRPG stories about drunken priests, weird dream worlds, and characters' assured descent into madness. Do it for the kittens.