Author: Cleophas

  • Sisters, Rivals, Monster Hunters by Caylen McQueen

    Sisters, Rivals, Monster Hunters by Caylen McQueen

    Sorry, Mother, there’s been a change of plans. It’s pretty horrible to surprise your fiance in bed with his bosomy mother-in-law days before your wedding. Much worse if they are both naked. But this is exactly where Kath finds herself at the beginning of Sisters, Rivals, Monster Hunters. Luckily, distractions abound. What with the fire-breathing…

  • Code Reaper by E L Strife

    Code Reaper by E L Strife

    “Tell me about Carysth and Lorre. The truth, or I’ll pop that bubble gut you have–greedy pig.” In a digital future, bodies aren’t the only mess that needs to be cleaned up when someone dies. Just as dead flesh rots, people’s digital bodies also go putrid when they die. Criminals steal identities to take out…

  • Killer Gold by Summer Renna

    Killer Gold by Summer Renna

    Don’t go to the panic room! It’s IN the panic room! It was just another gig for Zena Starr–okay, maybe a surprisingly lucrative one–but planetary princes have lots of money and being an intergalactic pop star does have its perks–but nothing seems to go right. Her starship is down for repairs, so she has to…

  • The Vong Attack by Jordan Bernhardt

    The Vong Attack by Jordan Bernhardt

    Yesss the captain said in a hideous way. No one knows what happened to the Vong. The mysterious alien race lived on Mars millennia before humans even existed. Perhaps they perished in some planetary cataclysm or perhaps they left the system. Only faint traces of their civilization still exist. But when humans begin colonizing Mars,…

  • Lord of the Forest by Chris McInally

    Lord of the Forest by Chris McInally

    A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. At first it seems it is an eight-foot tall monster with a mouth full of needle-like teeth, giant antlers sprouting from its head, green blood, and pale, waxy skin that is not quite flesh and not quite wood. The soldiers fleeing defeat at the hands…

  • Teenage Space Mercenary by M Harold Page

    Teenage Space Mercenary by M Harold Page

    The best lies are always the big ones. Jason MacNeil isn’t a 500 year-old genetically modified supersoldier named Brigadier Fenris. He’s really just a teenager who escaped from a HappyPlace(tm) software coder workhouse, optimistically termed an orphanage. But he has to act like he is, because his uncle Max is the one who broke him…

  • General Alexander Grimm: Savior of the Universe by Profe. Xavier Clemente

    General Alexander Grimm: Savior of the Universe by Profe. Xavier Clemente

    A story you’ll wish you could forget. This is a short story full of long shots. First long shot: the text of the entire story is center alligned and bolded. At first, I thought this was a formatting error, but after I sat with the text for a while and read it over a couple…

  • Dead Station by Aaron Beardsell

    Dead Station by Aaron Beardsell

    Sometimes the worst really does happen. The Kuiper Belt is a long way from Earth. But nobody lives on Earth anymore. After the Exodus, what’s left of humanity has a made a home on the moon. It’s not an easy place to live, though: there aren’t enough resources. And so people go where they can…

  • Synchronize by Joseph Hartz

    Synchronize by Joseph Hartz

    Yeah, the bird was a telepath. He was also an android. And his name was Death Bird. A conduit can look like anything: a necklace, a bracelet, a wristwatch. People use them to store the blueprints for things: clothes, guns, toothbrushes. When you need something, your conduit materializes it and there you have it. Everyone…

  • How to Survive on Planet X19 by Marge Morales

    How to Survive on Planet X19 by Marge Morales

    The essential guide to good times on the Planet from Hell! On Planet X19, the air is poisonous and the rain is acid. The plants are all carnivorous and the animals are worse. The bacteria are very unfriendly. Also there are active volcanoes everywhere. And lava worms. And dinosaurs. Did we mention that a rogue…