Finding out you're immortal as a teenager can set your world on fire. But finding out at the same time that just getting angry could kill everyone around you can dampen that pretty quickly. Who wants to live forever if you can't get close enough to someone that they can piss you off and live to see the next sunrise with you? Meaning - it was time to take a road trip to sort things out. When my uncle offered a summer gig cooking out of his food...

She was different, and could be mankind's savior, or it's worst enemy. The third generation born after a freak accident, her kind were shunned by humanity. Because they meant walking death. Until one human showed her compassion. Then her gifts came to view. Her parents and their parents only knew death, could only give death. But, they only wanted to be understood. Rochelle was searching. For the one thing that could save all of mankind from itself....

Sue had been though a world of pain already. Surviving re-entry to this planet in a powerless escape pod. Learning to speak with telepathic canines that had become the dominant sentient beings on Earth. Finding she could shape-shift and create very real illusions. She brought the end to a civil war between their pack and those nearby. Peace on Earth - at least this little part. By learning only a tiny bit of the special skills she was capable of. That...

A first collection of short stories from C. C. Brower. Contemporary, Fantasy, Science Fiction, 13 wonderful worlds from a different view of life. New ways to look at the world you live in, and ask yourself "what if" things were different... This anthology contains: - The Caretaker - When The Wild Calls - Mind Timing - Becoming Michelle - When the Cities Died, I Danced - Snow Gift - Mr. Ben's Rail Road - The War Bringeth - Peace: Forever War - Snow...

Now that Malia of 'Cagga had her little city under perfect control, she was ready to export her efficiency plans to the rest of the moon cities. And, help them achieve a perfect society under her rule. Martial law, automated mining equipment to replace human workers, constant surveillance of everyone else. Meaning that due to her improvements, they could lift off for their next target much sooner than expected. Because they didn't have to take anyone...

When someone sends boulder-sized rocks down to planet Earth from the moon, they approach like meteors. On the right trajectory, they don't burn up in the atmosphere, but can come down with the force of a nuclear blast. Our tiny outpost of sentient shape-shifting wolves and escapees from the slave-labor moon colonies had caused a stir up there. They probably still didn't figure out how we managed to help all those people disappear, cross 250,000-miles...

When Sue crash-lands back on Earth, she didn't know what to expect. What she found was a telepathic wolf pack, capable of reasoning and the dominant life form on the planet. They were in a fight for survival with the feral species of wolves, as well as the remnants of humankind. In the first part of this, Sue learns to communicate and to travel with the pack as they fight and escape from the hunting ferals. In doing so, she fights alongside Tig,...

TO DREAM OF TALKING WOLVES AND CROWS might be strange to some. To act on what they tell you to save some wild pups in an abandoned building with an unknown menace threatening your life - well, that might be crazy. Kelly liked to read. And she had an active imagination. So talking to coyotes and crows in her dreams wasn't too much for her. Until they wanted her to risk her own life to save some abandoned wild pups. Because if she didn't, the pups...

Welcome to another unique bi-monthly compilation of the inspired visions and universes from four Midwest Journal Press authors: C. C. BrowerJ. R. KruzeS. H. MarpelR. L. Saunders From their prolific output, we've assembled 16 short stories, grouping them by author and publication date. While every major genre is represented, you'll also see that in most cases, these books cross genres and plot structures to give you the best possible reader experience...

Why I was brought in to solve a mystery of people getting and staying healthy was a bit curious on its own. They were all terminally ill. And in quarantine. Yet one nurse and her student "angels of death" had been able to reverse this deadly disease that modern "medicine' had created through their own negligence. Most of the big city hospitals had these outbreaks, and had sent their worst cases out to live their lives in suburban hospices - often...