Nobody ever told Marvin Mackleschmidt that becoming an interplanetary pilot would be easy. It’s even tougher, however, however, when you’re a little bit chicken. The kind of chicken that wears feathers and clucks, that is. When disaster strikes...
Will Hunt was expecting another major headache when he received the call from despatch. What he hadn’t counted on was meeting Billy and going to Astraeus...
Ashton, son of The Tank Man, and his sister were forced to move to the Port in 1989. He was contented with his life in the Port, but everything changed on that day when he was deprived of the right to vote against the dissolution of the government,...
Two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Elizabeth Massie’s “Abed” – called one of the most disturbing horror stories ever written – was first published in the anthology STILL DEAD, edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector. You’ve...
If there is any universal trigger of nostalgia in the United States, it is the Golden Years of the 1950s. Glamorized to this day, the innocence of youth, the music on the radio, and of course, the tons of steel molded into cars are some of the most...
How does a smart cop outguess a smart criminal? Take the case of Sergeant Argen and the young girl, so sweet, so blameless, so undefended... who had been left for...
Considering the late John D. MacDonald’s obvious love for boating and the sea, it’s surprising that so few of his short stories had nautical backgrounds. This one, published in a yachting magazine just a few months after his death, makes fine...