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Flash Fiction stories are tales of a thousand words or less. In this collection, you the listener are offered ten short tales of horror and creeping terror.

In a matter of seconds the sun, moon, and stars disappeared from the sky, replaced by an inky, infinite blackness. Global communications were disrupted, and chaos reigned worldwide as panic set in, and humanity reset to its basest of behaviors and most primal of natural instincts.

At the dawn of the twenty-second century, the human race is poised for greatness. The Solar System is being rapidly colonized, and the stars are almost within reach. The future potential seems limitless.

High in the skies over Michigan, Frank and Susan have a few precious hours alone - safe from the chaos below. Alone in the cockpit Frank tells his lady love a tale of adventure, terror, and heroism in 1963 Las Vegas.

The first 24 stories of the Free Story Friday series are collected here for the first time in audio. Includes "Under the Bed", "Into the Tall Grass", "Down the Slope", "The Quality of Life", "Letters from Galileo", and more.

What really happened when the first man and the first woman were expelled from paradise? Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Garden, part of the expansive Hildenverse of stories.

In the 19th century, Frank and Allison take a ride on the Orient Express on a mission to secure information that will help in the coming war. While on the voyage, they make new friends and learn more about the Order of the Black Light.

One year after the Shattering and the great collapse, survivors in Columbus, Ohio, are barely holding things together. Then, on December 24, when all seemed lost, a new hero appears, and he is determined to protect all the children of the Earth.

Following the war with Ast-Murath, Meg Carson finds herself at a crossroads. Losing the woman she loved and the man she considered a brother, she goes on a journey of growth and exploration. From the realm of the dead, to high above the Earth, Meg searches for closure and a release from the pain of loss.

My name is Darren Eddington, Lord of Bluestone Manor, Colonel in His Majestys Special Air Service, Deputy Director of Section Nine, and the last living descendant of Dr. Henry Jekyll, also known as Mr. Hyde. I am the last hope for the survival of the United Kingdom. You already know the story of what my Godfather Franklin Castle, known to some of you as Frankenstein’s Monster, did in the hours following the end of the world. But you don’t know what my new partner the beautiful Weretigress Niyati and I did in those same hours.

Twin brother and sister Hugo and Lila sit on the corner of Main Street while the world around them burns.

Welcome to the 1881 Trials, the first in Preserve Number Six. It's a complicated set of Trials in a hastily assembled playing field and overseen personally by the Director. This is when everything changed.

When the dead rose, society collapsed. First went the landlines, then went the cell service. The power died and with it went television, radio, and the internet. In all but the luckiest of areas communications beyond the level of hand-delivered mail and smoke signals were the norms. In the days, weeks, and months following the death of civilization, The Relay rose to fill the void.

Some said the world would end in the cold. Some said the world would end in a fire. Some said when there was no more room in hell the dead would rise up to devour the living. Nobody thought it would be because of the corn.

A Bahamian Cruise. A dysfunctional family. An out of this world occurrence. (This short story is a vignette that will one day be the basis for a novel).

When the time comes, and the world lies on the brink of extinction, who will stand with humanity against the Old Gods and their minions? On the eve of the Apocalypse, a small parish priest comes face to face with a creature as old as time. However, is he here to help us in our most desperate moment of need or will he help usher in the new age of darkness and chaos? Is the Lightbringer our enemy or is he the hero humanity doesn't deserve?

Humanity lives in the sunlit world of what we believe to be reality. Unknown to most there is, unseen by most, another world, possibly many other worlds, running side by side with our own. The Marquette Institute and Department of Preternatural Activities (DPA) are the latest in a long and illustrious line of organizations established to help safeguard the human race from the monsters living in the spaces between reality and nightmares. These stories just scratch the surface of the operations and investigations conducted in almost 200 years of operation.

Following the death of her maternal grandfather, 16-year-old Allison and her mother move back to the family farm in rural West Virginia. When they arrive on the isolated mountain homestead, old memories, suppressed for a decade, surface, and Allison realizes reality isn’t what she’d been raised to believe it to be. It soon becomes clear to Allison that their return to the farm is far from a random event and that in the end, she will once more have to confront what hides behind the door in the basement.

What ancient evils live beneath the waters of the great Lakes of North America? During a massive snow storm in a small diner, we get a glimpse of the terror below.

Set one year after the events of Shattered Earth, Book 1 this novella is a story of love, loss, and the attempt by Meg Carson to finally grieve the loss of her true love. Delving into the past relationship between the young women, their sundering, and Tammy's years after the collapse of human civilization, this short tale will fill in some of the gaps and events in Book 2.