Combining the gritty surrealism of David Lynch with the explosive interior meditations of Clarice Lispector, the stories in Elvira Navarro's Rabbit Island traverse the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called "non-inventor" conducts an experiment on an island inhabited exclusively by birds and is horrified by what the results portend. "Myotragus" bears witness to a man of privilege's understanding...

Arriving at their destination system, Doctor Karen Goddard is violently awoken from stasis. With the aid of the ships AI she must select seven key members of the crew to evaluate their situation. In the ensuing chaos one of the crew dies horribly in their stasis chamber prompting an investigation into her death. But its not the only mystery they face. Mission control has stopped communicating with them decades earlier. The ship appears to have suffered...

A science fiction short story from Jeff Walker, author of The Long Lost War, Your Service Is Required, and The Mysterious World of Professor Darkk and Miss Shadow. Simon Janson died at the end of his life, only to be reborn into a new body and his mind uploaded to it. Now he must live in a world where death is no longer a factor in human beings anymore. Simon travels beyond Earth to find meaning in his life now, stumbling upon a new love and new challenges....

Half a century after Harwick slammed into the Earth and nearly ended human civilization humanity is getting back on its feet.In the rebuilding city of Atlanta. A young grad student presents his mentor with the diary of the Traveler. A person of myth and legend the Traveler crisscrossed North America collecting the stories of the survivors of Hardwick but rarely spoke of his own adventures.In this original tome, the secrets of the Traveler are finally...

Le rythme scandé de cette nouvelle sonne comme une comptine pour sortir de l'enfance... On ne devrait jamais jouer à cache-cache dans la maison de ses parents quand ils sont au boulot. On ne devrait jamais jouer à cache-cache. On ne devrait jamais jouer. Nicolas Ancion livre ici un fragment de littérature intime et pudique. EXTRAIT Tout est trop sombre, à commencer par le ciel, tendu comme une corde à linge sous la pluie. Gris, gris,...

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the mallNot a soul was shopping, they're stealing from y'all. But do you recall the most famous twin sleuths of all? Lizzie is an underpaid intern for a small-town private investigator and Samantha is a nosy reporter trying to survive the holiday. Neither expected to spend their Christmas Eve trapped in a mall with Santa, a frazzled mom, an eccentric toy collector… oh and a team of thieves robbing...

VOUS ÊTES SUR LE POINT D'ENTRER DANS UN ROYAUME DE TERREUR ET DE DOULEUR! Dans "Beta", un monstre terrorise un village isolé dans les montagnes d'Europe de l'Est, drainant le sang de ses victimes et les laissant gelées dans la neige. Les villageois chassent les loups, décapitent les "vampires", mais les meurtres continuent. Qui sera le prochain ? La situation s'arrêtera-t-elle un jour ? Dans "Prey", un vieil homme découvre un nouvel engrais...

A quirky collection of stories about teens in lust and in love. From the first stirrings of same-sex desire to paternity questions around a teen pregnancy, 101 Ways to Dance reflects the spectrum of teen sexuality from the sweet to the scary.

A collection of irreverent and poetic short works from legendary actor Vincent D'Onofrio This is not a story woven around plot, characters, and contrivance. Rather, it is what acclaimed actor Vincent D'Onofrio's mind produces when on idle, when he is not thinking about servicing a story. His words are, in the purest sense, ideas that fall unexpectedly upon his head, "like an apple from a tree-dropping all at once," though less about gravity and Newton's...

A very varied collection of short (or very short) stories, a recount, a bit of polemic, and one poem. Exploring environmental issues, the human mind, relationships, politics and more... Some are set in the recent past, some in the present, some in the near future, and many in the distant future; two are set in space, but most are firmly on the ground - two in India, two in Antarctica, two at sea; most could be almost anywhere on Earth. Many but...