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ElaeNorh

By Vanessa Kittle

Elaenor was a quiet girl who never seemed to quite fit in with other people. And there was a very good reason: she wasn't a person. She was a Calean trapped in a human body for the past 1000 years.

Dark Autumn

By Clint H. Dunshee

July 20, 2021, was a date nobody would ever forget. It was the day Earth made contact with intelligent beings from another planet. They were human, from the planet Outland. They came because citizens in a private space yacht found one of Earth's deep space probes, the "Voyager." It had been launched from Earth in 2002, and its mission was to study Charon, the Moon of Pluto. After this, it sped out of the solar system with the hope that one day some intelligent beings would find it. And that was precisely what happened.

The Rogue Pirates Bible Heretical

By John Klawitter

Twenty Seven thematically linked short stories about faith, hope and maybe even a little charity. Animals talk and aliens drop down out of the sky. Jesus returns for further adventures and his Father is just as frustrated as ever by his creatures. Science collides with faith to create old mischief and new awareness. The guiding principles are common sense, nonsense, and a quirky sense of humor... Grab your rosary, Spin your prayer wheel, And see if you can still levitate Put your left foot in, and put your left foot out Give yourself a shake, shake, shake and turn yourself about... Oops, heaven... no, hell... Wait, maybe you should sit a spell... Hug your teddy, grab your jewels, this here's no place for weak-kneed fools... That's right, its The Rogue Pirate's Bible Heretical

The Nanotech Murders

By Lee Gimenez

The year is 2071 and there's a serial killer loose in Atlanta. Lieutenant Jak Decker, a homicide cop, is on the case but is getting nowhere. As the body count mounts, his boss assigns him a partner, the smart and beautiful Detective Cassandra Smith. Decker, a tough, wise-cracking loner, doesn't want a partner, especially when he finds out she's an android.

Quantum Level Zero

By Ted Grosch

War tends to bring out the best and worst of mankind. Quantum Level Zero takes place near the end of the war on terror in a dystopian society ruled by fanatics on both sides. The time is ripe for the emergence of zero-point-energy, computer intelligence and first contact in the context of a war on terror that has lasted three generations. This story follows three people who have nothing more to lose and nothing else to gain but their own humanity.