It started with a dream. In it, John Earl Stark solved the problem of a ghost he met. Or did he? It was a dream, after all. The next day he meets two women who visit his cabin, arriving out of the blue, literally. (Well, one arrived with pitched black darkness which filled his cabin and made her cough.)These two have an offer for Stark. All he really wanted was to enjoy the small cabin and solitude so he could write his mystery stories. These ladies...

Cozy, Detective, or Amateur Sleuth - contemporary or fantasy - these short stories will keep you guessing right up to their quick end.Mysteries come in many forms, and in many locations. Here we have contemporary, dystopian, and paranormal venues so you can immerse yourself from the first sentence in each of these short stories.- A ghost who has to arrange her own scene-reenactment just to find out how she died. - How a writer helps a woman find out...

More speculative fiction to transport you to worlds and times beyond knowing. This 2nd quarter collection of original short stories will provide you with countless hours of entertainment, particularly as they are written both as speculative fiction and modern parables based on ancient principles. Of course, they're written to be read for fun, but every time you read them, each story gets better - like something you've never seen in it before. This...

She could still remember the look on his face when they closed the Riot Wall for the final time. She could barely find him at first beyond the chain-link fence a few hundred yards away. If not for that red-plaid shirt he always wore when he visited her. Standing in the closed "visitor" queue on his side of that wall. After this day, there would be no more visits. Because this wall was the long-overdue solution to the long-running riots. Riots meant...