The animals of myth and extinction have returned to Earth. The prophecies are coming to pass, from Revelations, to Nostradamus and Hopi. The Earth is at war. World War III has erupted. Famine and disease is spreading. The governments are strained. Militaries are short on manpower. Resources are dwindling. But there is hope... Colonel Poul Flagstaad and the Phoenix have returned to Earth. The governments debrief them and separate the team. As each one returns to their nations, they are immediately sent on other missions. Immediately, they are conflicted, each one struggling with the need to...

Welcome to the Wild West on Mars... Gatling Gun Charley is a poor cowboy recently robbed by his latest employer. If that wasn't bad enough, he is chased through the canyons of Mars by an angry farmer after he accidentally walked over his crops while fighting through a resolith dust storm. An independent cowboy down on his luck, Charley is pursued by a poor Spurn girl, Clarissa, wanting to be trained so she can exact vengeance against those who killed her family. Even in desperate need of cash, he refuses to help, afraid to be associated with the poorer race, once enslaved a few years back and...

A ragtag team of Special Forces chose to disobey orders and save the few refugees from the devastation. They used what knowledge they learned of the portals and helped the people to cross into Fifth World. Thousands were saved by the selfless acts of disobedient soldiers. Colonel Flagstaad and Vice Admiral Gunner led the remaining survivors into the Bermuda Triangle. Gunner Mech opened the portal so they could enter, and then the Urda's Well fleet pulled into Fifth World. The meek, the poor and the refugees from society's corruption had arisen from the ashes, transported across space to...

Their daughter has been kidnapped by Fire Breath. Invesia's compassion for animals and Pavid's ability to solve mysteries has given the husband and wife team some small popularity. Between mysteries, classes and coddling animals, the two of them spend little time together and more time apart. With the abduction of Gerinda, the two of them will come together to save their daughter with the assistance of their loyal pets. A trail of maimed and dead animals leads Pavid to the Tower Prophecy in the small town of Estillianes. On the quest, they seek out an old man who mysteriously wanders from the...

Imagio has fallen in love, but his love interest does not reciprocate. His courage is light and his efforts are clumsy. Agritara is the most beautiful woman he had ever seen and she wants nothing to do with him. On the way to Tyrines, he sees her once again and attempts to woo her. Imagio has a book of poems that can cast his artwork into real life but this is not enough to impress her. Sulking in his failure, Imagio helps his friend, Pavid discover the mystery of the thefts in the City of Tyrines. Amber and rubies are being stolen. Pavid realized that the enemy is searching for something...

Short Stories: The Cold and Dark Places Short stories of fantasy and science fiction. Meet the future of technology and the hubris of scientists. First, visit a world where everyone works at home and no one has to leave their apartment. Social media had taken a new twist where everyone can experience life as an avatar in Quisibi. Follow the scientists as they design the very first teleportation chamber. The most advanced computer had successfully transported the first human being from one place to another. But there is something wrong with the motivations of their lawyers in Hestia's...

Jennifer Alexander was searching for a new life. She packed her possessions and set out to find a job in a new city. During a heavy thunderstorm, she is detoured from the highway and led towards an abandoned house on top of a plateau. This house is not ordinary, packed with antique furniture from decades ago. The technology is antiquated. The house appears to be abandoned but there is evidence that someone had once lived there recently. The thunderstorm drives many people to seek the comfort of the house, a family of three, a manager, a female couple, an old man and a couch potato. The heavy...

The creatures of fairy tale have returned to the Earth. They saved humanity from imminent doom from an alien attack. Garbazhio is a collector, a vampire and an Elf. He acquires an odd contract from a mysterious stranger. Well paid, he is determined to find the lost magical device that can save the world from a new horror. He decides that he must have help to battle away his many enemies. He must choose his favorite weapons, 45 or sword. He navigates through a post-apocalyptic world, dragging along his Dwarven friend, Basoora. His friend brings his three favorite things, an axe, a shotgun and...

Captain Garbazhio and his crew have earned their freedom through the Lord Byron, a simple and fast starship. Space is their final resting place for a ship of undead. Garbazhio deposits the last survivors from the Mercury Mine onto Earth and other space stations before he returns home to Agarentel to save Rabyutte, the boy that he presumed had died. The Elven Houses are in decline. The Martians had suckled them dry. Even Garbazhio's family of Weists are fighting amongst themselves to attain power and control over a crumbling nobility. He must navigate through a deteriorating house to find and...