Publisher: Short Stories
4 hot, bestial, unusual tales! Anal with the alligator/Bangs with buffalo/Pounded by the polar bear/Humped by the hippo
The moment I met my sister’s best friend Madison Baker, we immediately take a dislike to each other. She always thinks she’s right, and worse, she usually is. We spend our four years at the academy torturing each other. Years later, she’s out of the Marines thanks to a roadside bomb. If you think that means she’s fragile, you would be wrong. She’s stronger than anyone I know, and we still drive each other crazy, and when one of our arguments ends up in a blazing hot kiss, and then we can’t seem to keep our hands off each other. When she tells me she’s seen a murder, and no one else believes her, I stand up for her, because this is Madison–she’s always right. Together, we sift through the meager evidence, trying to unearth the secrets someone is trying to hide. Neither one of us expected that it would draw us closer—or that a killer is hell bent on making sure those secrets stay buried.Show book
The story is set in London, at an elite gentleman’s club called "The Grill," where an American gentleman arrests the attention of four other men by relating how one night he got lost in a thick London fog. He stumbled upon a house where a double murder was just committed. The victims of the murder were a young nobleman and a Russian princess. He escaped from the house and reported the killings to Scotland Yard. But they were unable to find the location of the dwelling. All very strange, as three of the other gentlemen all offer more information and perspectives on various details of the incident as they endeavor to solve the mystery. (Introduction by Bob Gonzalez)Show book
The Sentimentalists by Murray Leinster is a classic science fiction short story that blends alien romance, frontier survival, and inventive problem-solving into an engaging off-world adventure. Set on Cetis Gamma Two, the story follows human colonist Lon Simpson as he battles corruption, scarce resources, and the threat of destructive solar flares, while two alien newlyweds observe events from their own unusual perspective. With themes of love, resilience, innovation, and community, this optimistic tale showcases Leinster’s gift for combining imaginative extraterrestrial ideas with human emotion and practical ingenuity. A great choice for readers who enjoy vintage science fiction, space colonization stories, and thoughtful speculative fiction with heart.Show book
KOFI'S QUEST. KWAME'S ARROW "Run to Freedom" is the first of a trilogy set on an 18th century Jamaican plantation. 13-year-old Kofi is an enslaved African who works in the pickney gang on McDermott Plantation. His father, Kwame, secretly trains him in tribal knowledge and hunting skills and embeds the urge to escape the plantation in Kofi's psyche. Kwame has been covertly meeting the Maroons, planning to escape, join the mountain warriors and provide intelligence to facilitate a successful raid for arms. ammunition and food. Kwame's chief intent is to rescue his family in the chaos of the attack and take them to live in the mountains with the freedom fighters. But something goes horribly wrong: Kwame is captured and killed. Vowing to succeed where his father failed, young Kofi makes an ill-timed attempt to run away: he is captured and punished severely. Though scarred for life as a result of his failed escape attempt, Kofi is undaunted and determined to try again. Will he succeed where his father failed?Show book
There are worse things than death and they live between the worlds. In a mixed-up trip where Wonderland meets hell, it’s survival of the fittest and having a shattered soul means it’s even harder to stay alive. In this alien landscape full of monsters there’s no rest and the chance of death is high. Not only are we hunted, but the threat of the void is always present. After an attack, harsh realities pass Vincent’s lips leaving me conflicted about our future together and worried about my chances of survival. Closing myself off from him is supposed to prevent distractions while I search for perspective. Instead, it puts both of our lives at greater risk. Can we work together long enough to make it home?Show book
'Nobody believes what they see on TV, so they want to look for something else, an alternate reality, or a conspiracy theory, and it's interesting to explore it, Twitter is fucking full of it, especially now. It's no wonder people round here are into it, but you don't have to read all that shit, just have some mushrooms and wander round Lidl off your tits.' In these fourteen northern tales, Campbell takes us from the edgelands of Manchester to the cloistered villages of The Peak District, Northumberland and Scotland, and illuminates the lives of outsiders, misfits, loners and malcontents with an eye for the darkly comic. A wild-eyed man disturbs the banter in a genial bookshop. A fraught woman seeks to flee a collapsing reservoir. A failed academic finds solace in a crime writer's favourite pub. A transit van killer stalks a railway footpath. A poet accused of plagiarism finds his life falling apart.Show book
