The Field of Stones

The Field of Stones

Frank M Sheldon

Frank M Sheldon

A short story of 3,800 words. It begins: "I awoke from a dreamless sleep lying in the field of stones. I had no idea how I got there, but I had always been there, and there was never a time when I was not there."A short story of 3,800 words. It begins: "I awoke from a dreamless sleep lying in the field of stones. I had no idea how I got there, but I had always been there, and there was never a time when I was not there. I lay for a while looking up at an unbroken pale blue sky. There were never any clouds, just the same featureless expanse over my head as it had been for all my todays. How many, I cannot say. Far more than I could count, more than the stones about me, and they were unnumbered…."
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Gfantis vs the Guest Monsters

Gfantis vs the Guest Monsters

Matthew Dennion

Horror

G-Fan's own mascot monster Gfantis takes on monster let to them by best giant monster authors in the world including. Jeremy Robinson, Matthew Dennion, Timothy Price, Eric S. Brown and many more!Gfantis the Prince of the Monster’s and the mascot of the world’s longest running kaiju fanzine G-FAN faces off against the greatest and most powerful monsters from the world of kaiju novels and comics. Gfantis has destroyed every kaiju he has faced in the pages of G-FAN magazine but will even he be able to overcome the likes of: Jeremy Robinson’s Nemesis, Matthew Dennion’s Atomic Rex, Chimera, and the ROCS, Timothy Price’s The Duke and Zargatron, Christopher Martinez and Jonathan Clode’s Dorugan, Wayne Smith and Frank Parr’s Irokus, Eric S. Brown’s Zombie Kaiju Tyler Sowles and Scott Schmidt’s Durontus, K.H. Koehler’s Raiju, Todd Tennant and Mike Bogue’s King Komodo, Zach Cole’s Marugrah, Keith Foster’s Kodoja, Skip Peel’s Itara and many more!!The greatest kaiju authors and artists in the world have lent their monsters to G-Fan magazine! Dare to read the carnage that occurs when Gfantis crosses paths with the Guest Kaiju!
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Off The Grid: A War With No End Book 1

Off The Grid: A War With No End Book 1

Andy Nadir

Fantasy / Magic

Drake Jinx finds himself dragged into a huge conflict against a powerful enemy that the world has never seen before. After being given the power of leaping, the ability to transfer himself and his friends through packets of time and space, he sets out to build an army that can battle this strange new threat. But not everything goes as planned, and he finds himself wondering who he can trust.The Pisces Empire, the universe's biggest and strongest superpower, is under attack. For years, they reigned supreme over all other nations by utilizing the power of Leaping. The ability to Leap allowed a single representative of the Pisces Empire to instantly travel between not only worlds, but time periods as well. With the technology the Empire gained from this ability, they were thought to be invincible. But when this strange attacking force doesn't let up, the Empire starts to worry. Drake Jinx, a snarky and lazy scientist in the employ of the Pisces Empire finds himself forcibly dragged into a war he didn't want to be in after being granted the power to Leap and sent off into the unknown to gather an army in order to combat this strange foe. Accompanied by Lilly Swift, the Pisces Empire's chosen field agent and constant tormentor, Drake Jinx comes to find that he too might have stakes this war, and those that were once his friends might just be working against him.Off The Grid is a 57,000 word novel meant to be a fun read for any age. This book is a mix of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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The Move

The Move

Ray Timms

Comics / Fantasy / Fiction

Art Blakely moved his family to Devon to escape his debts but when his dream new start went horribly wrong he decided to move to London. He thought he had it all planned out. What he hadn't reckoned with was having to use four vehicles that were mostly illegal or unroadworthy and the removal driver had a broken leg.The convoy broke up on the M5 when most of them were arrested. Hilarious but true.THE MOVE is a true story of a family in crisis and how they coped or often didn’t cope. Art Blakely’s small plumbing business had been made bankrupt and there was a repossession order on his house. After hiring a huge removal lorry Art and his family packed up their home and fled Crawley and the bailiffs hoping for a dream life in glorious Devon. Hoping their creditors wouldn’t find them they rented a bleak cottage on the edge of Dartmoor. It wasn’t long before Art lost his job when the Victorian attitude of the employers finally got to him. Nine months on, now penniless, cold, starving and jobless their dream new life had become a living nightmare. Their only option was to move house again. This time they were moving to London. With no money for moving costs, Art put together a team of willing if inept, house movers. A friend, who owned a removal lorry, the only expert on the team, turned up with his broken leg in a plaster cast. It was a set back but it wasn’t going to change Art’s plan to lead a convoy of four clapped out or illegal vehicles up the M5. Before long they became separated as one by one they got pulled over by the police. Now Art Blakely’s entourage including two dogs and a couple of guinea pigs were spread out over four counties. Filled with extraordinary incidents and ridiculous people, THE MOVE will move you to tears and have you laughing out loud.
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All That Glitters

All That Glitters

Elizabeth Stern-Wolfe

Elizabeth Stern-Wolfe

Consumerism, capitalism, and self image: it's all wrapped up in a neat plastic package for us, isn't it? In this short story, a robot woman comes across a box of her old childhood parts. Nostalgia and regret mix as she contemplates how materialism affected her upbringing.Losing her fiance, Harry, four months before their wedding in a senseless accident was bad enough. Finding out the powerful archangels ordered it is an infuriating mystery. Lucy McDonald is a seer...she shares her mother's family gift of being able to see, hear, and touch angels. Only, she's not to thrilled with the angel community at the moment. That has to be put aside, though, when she is pulled into a world of angelic intrigue that has implications for the safety and freedom of this universe and everyone in it. Paired by the archangels with a strong, sexy Earth angel named Sam to end the threat, and told they are the only two in the universe who can do it, Lucy soon learns some surprising secrets about who she really is, uncovers treachery in the Earth angel kingdom, and is made privy to many of the truths about the inner workings of the universe that most people never know. From the streets of Orlando to the forests of northern Vermont, and from an intriguing alternate dimension to which she is the only key to the capital city of the Earth angel kingdom itself, Lucy and Sam are on a race against time to build an army powerful enough to take on the oncoming danger and save the lives of everyone they've been entrusted to protect. At the same time, Lucy discovers maybe just maybe, the archangels were right about Harry, and learns that true love often looks completely different than you ever imagined.
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Tin Universe Monthly #2

Tin Universe Monthly #2

Brian C. Williams

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Short Stories

FLIGHT OF THE COMING STORM 2.0What are the small everyday events for a hero that are very big? A solo tale about the hero Pulpy.THE DAWGS OF WARFollowing on from events seen in Stereo 2.0 comes this story of what happen to The Dawgs Of War after Death waved his hands to set their destiny in motion.Losing her fiance, Harry, four months before their wedding in a senseless accident was bad enough. Finding out the powerful archangels ordered it is an infuriating mystery. Lucy McDonald is a seer...she shares her mother's family gift of being able to see, hear, and touch angels. Only, she's not to thrilled with the angel community at the moment. That has to be put aside, though, when she is pulled into a world of angelic intrigue that has implications for the safety and freedom of this universe and everyone in it. Paired by the archangels with a strong, sexy Earth angel named Sam to end the threat, and told they are the only two in the universe who can do it, Lucy soon learns some surprising secrets about who she really is, uncovers treachery in the Earth angel kingdom, and is made privy to many of the truths about the inner workings of the universe that most people never know. From the streets of Orlando to the forests of northern Vermont, and from an intriguing alternate dimension to which she is the only key to the capital city of the Earth angel kingdom itself, Lucy and Sam are on a race against time to build an army powerful enough to take on the oncoming danger and save the lives of everyone they've been entrusted to protect. At the same time, Lucy discovers maybe just maybe, the archangels were right about Harry, and learns that true love often looks completely different than you ever imagined.
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Earth Angel (Angels and Seers: Book One)

Earth Angel (Angels and Seers: Book One)

Stephanie Woods

Nonfiction / Autobiography / Memoir

Lucy McDonald is content to go on mourning her dead fiance, Harry, forever. The angels she and her family can interact with have other plans. First, her trusted guardian angel, Kira, informs her that Harry's death was ordered by the powerful archangels. Then, she is paired with the sexy and determined prince of the Earth Angel kingdom, Sam, to save the universe. Who knew she was a superhero?Losing her fiance, Harry, four months before their wedding in a senseless accident was bad enough. Finding out the powerful archangels ordered it is an infuriating mystery. Lucy McDonald is a seer...she shares her mother's family gift of being able to see, hear, and touch angels. Only, she's not to thrilled with the angel community at the moment. That has to be put aside, though, when she is pulled into a world of angelic intrigue that has implications for the safety and freedom of this universe and everyone in it. Paired by the archangels with a strong, sexy Earth angel named Sam to end the threat, and told they are the only two in the universe who can do it, Lucy soon learns some surprising secrets about who she really is, uncovers treachery in the Earth angel kingdom, and is made privy to many of the truths about the inner workings of the universe that most people never know. From the streets of Orlando to the forests of northern Vermont, and from an intriguing alternate dimension to which she is the only key to the capital city of the Earth angel kingdom itself, Lucy and Sam are on a race against time to build an army powerful enough to take on the oncoming danger and save the lives of everyone they've been entrusted to protect. At the same time, Lucy discovers maybe just maybe, the archangels were right about Harry, and learns that true love often looks completely different than you ever imagined.
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Lallys Lost Wand

Lallys Lost Wand

Natasha Weber

Natasha Weber

Fairies are not the smartest little beings in gardens. In fact, they sometimes get so caught up in the beauty surrounding them, they lose their most important and precious tools. Lally loves to take naps and loves to talk to guppies and just fly around making flowers sparkle. This time, she really gets into trouble. She's lost her wand.Lally the fairy loses her wand for the umpteenth time. Her friend Miggie tries to help her and some of the other farm animals get in on the search, however, it seems hopeless once two little human girls come upon it in the garden. The Queen is furious with Lally and warns her if she doesn't find it, she'll be sent to the black forest.
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A Wizard's Tale

A Wizard's Tale

Natasha Weber

Natasha Weber

A short story about the life of a Pixie in a fictional world.Keenan is a Pixie at the end of his rope. He's used up his lifeforce magic and is aging like a normal Human would without it; and because he is thousands of years old, he hasn't got long to live. His only hope for survival is to request the Regeneration from the Order--a religious sect that will sometimes use magic to restore a person to youth if they feel them worthy. The only problem is, Keenan doesn't believe in God.
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Capture

Capture

Rachel Van Dyken

New Adult, Historical Fiction / Romance

After losing her ability to speak, seventeen year old Dani embarks on a summer whirlwind romance with hollywood heartthrob Lincoln Greene.Losing your ability to speak at the age of seventeen; it’s not normal or fair. But trauma, has a way of throwing normality out the window. Dani lives anything but a normal life. Her sister is married to one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Her best friends are rockstar duo AD2.And she has more love around her than most people experience in a lifetime. But that doesn't change the fact their parents are dead. Or that it's her fault. It seems her new normal is being a mute, living on the inside, unable to actually communicate on the outside. That is until Hollywood’s newest heartthrob Lincoln Greene hires her as his assistant for the summer. He's gorgeous, completely unavailable, and unobtainable.But that doesn't stop her from wondering...if things were different...would he want her? If she was whole, would he be the other half?
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Tough Love: Episode 1

Tough Love: Episode 1

Alexander Dingeman

Alexander Dingeman

Tough Love is like a romantic comedy for men. When womanizer, Duke Butchmann, sleeps with the goddess, Aphrodite, and never calls her back she curses him with the power of love. Now Duke and his best friend Wilt must find a way to fix it before it's too late. However, in their quest they end up crossing paths with a mysterious cult. Presented in screenplay format.While the nation fights in The War of 1812, Amelia Samuels fights her own battle. Her father is forcing her to marry Thomas Van Martin, the son of the wealthiest man in Millersport. Thomas is everything she's against in a man and the last thing she wants is for him to be her husband. When she has nobody to turn to, she befriends Patrick Buchanan, the village stranger. After falling in love, Amelia and Patrick discover the reason behind her unwanted engagement but Amelia finds herself in grave danger before she can make things right.Amelia's Story is about a village seeking the truth. It's what happens when one man's mistakes effects the entire community. Though the residents of Millersport never learn the complete truth, the readers of this story will know exactly what happened that frightful night of August 25, 1813.
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Amelia's Story

Amelia's Story

C.P. Murphy

Literature & Fiction / History / Romance

Set during the War of 1812, Amelia Samuels is being forced into a loveless marriage by her father. When she has nobody left to turn to, she befriends the village stranger, Patrick Buchahan. Together the two discover the reason behind her unwanted engagement, but perhaps a little too late.While the nation fights in The War of 1812, Amelia Samuels fights her own battle. Her father is forcing her to marry Thomas Van Martin, the son of the wealthiest man in Millersport. Thomas is everything she's against in a man and the last thing she wants is for him to be her husband. When she has nobody to turn to, she befriends Patrick Buchanan, the village stranger. After falling in love, Amelia and Patrick discover the reason behind her unwanted engagement but Amelia finds herself in grave danger before she can make things right.Amelia's Story is about a village seeking the truth. It's what happens when one man's mistakes effects the entire community. Though the residents of Millersport never learn the complete truth, the readers of this story will know exactly what happened that frightful night of August 25, 1813.
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Maxwell Destination of Life & Death and Other Fable Stories

Maxwell Destination of Life & Death and Other Fable Stories

Fredjhannah

Nonfiction / Medical

Do you enjoy flash fiction? Here is a unique collection of three exciting fable stories that are made to be a fun experience for action-adventure and humor. Each story is more exciting than the last, as it tells an inspiring narrative that is affordable for the value price and can be download on the go from Smashwords.com.There comes a time when a person must stand for his or her beliefs to make their dreams come true, but sadly Maxwell is not the kind of person who doesn’t believe in faith or destiny. He believes dreams are nothing but dreams and a person should only try to do the minimum and not the maximum, as dreams are nothing but dreams. But one day, Maxwell is visited by a Guardian Angel who tells him that the Grimm Reaper of Death is coming to claim his life. Maxwell must decide and choose his faith rather live or die. Along with that, there are two other stories such as The Toys In The Bedroom and Rachel & Fred The Great Escape. Overall, these stories are design to be fun and enjoyable for kids of all ages.
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The Secret

The Secret

Carmen Botman

Young Adult / Fantasy / Fiction

How far would you go to keep a secret? How many years of your life would you spend protecting something this dark? Marjory and Leonard have been doing just this for so many years that it has become second-nature to them. But the secret they've kept for so long is now doing more damage than ever.“I don't know what I was thinking when I got so involved with my experiments. My poor Josette she was the love of my life and to just throw it all away over an experiment was inconceivable but I did. Now I must live the rest of my days as a lonely old man down in a dusty old lab with my assistant Gregor” said Dr. Van Lewton.“It's been ten lonely years with a bunch of botched experiments that seem to go nowhere. I thought I'd give it one more shot then all of a sudden there was a knock on the door. I said to Gregor, "Who could that be, no one has been at my castle since my beautiful wife Josette left me on that stormy night. I pleaded with her to stay but she had all she could take and slammed the door behind her and left without saying goodbye. Josette enters Dr. Van Lewton's life once more but when a carriage ride goes bad and Dr. Van Lewton loses his hand from the tragic accident a surgical procedure goes horribly wrong and that's when terror reigns back down on a quiet little town that had just got over a spree of killings.
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The Severed Hand

The Severed Hand

Drac Von Stoller

Horror / Mystery / Paranormal

Dr. Van Lewton and his assistant was about to embark on a surgical procedure that would bring death back to their town after a killer had been put to death for the strangulation deaths of many townspeople.When a carriage ride goes bad Dr. Lister's surgery on Dr. Van Lewton's hand once again brings terror back to the town as the killers severed hand lives again through Dr. Van Lewton.“I don't know what I was thinking when I got so involved with my experiments. My poor Josette she was the love of my life and to just throw it all away over an experiment was inconceivable but I did. Now I must live the rest of my days as a lonely old man down in a dusty old lab with my assistant Gregor” said Dr. Van Lewton.“It's been ten lonely years with a bunch of botched experiments that seem to go nowhere. I thought I'd give it one more shot then all of a sudden there was a knock on the door. I said to Gregor, "Who could that be, no one has been at my castle since my beautiful wife Josette left me on that stormy night. I pleaded with her to stay but she had all she could take and slammed the door behind her and left without saying goodbye. Josette enters Dr. Van Lewton's life once more but when a carriage ride goes bad and Dr. Van Lewton loses his hand from the tragic accident a surgical procedure goes horribly wrong and that's when terror reigns back down on a quiet little town that had just got over a spree of killings.
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