Ben, fresh out of college, is starting his first week of work at a top secret governmental agency that lies deep in the protected woods in the north of the country. He can only pick up bits and pieces about the fantastical things that go on at 'the Agency, ' but he quickly realizes that the team's current assignment might be biting off more than they can chew. The experiment that his team is spending the most time on also has the most potential to go wrong, though only Ben seems to see it at first. What begins as a mundane procedural testing of some seemingly-ordinary house cats quickly flies...
Ben, fresh out of college, is starting his first week of work at a top secret governmental agency that lies deep in the protected woods in the north o...
Four young men have noticed a peculiar man wandering around the streets downtown where they work, muttering to himself with a trashbag slung over his shoulder. After one of them hatches a plan to capture the strange old man's words, the group quickly realize that the fellow has seen and done things that defy the imagination. A metaphysical tale of action and adventure that takes you beyond the bounds of normal human experience and into a world of secret colors and hidden doorways, of uncoiling panthers and recoiling nailguns, 'First There Wasn't, Then There Was' is a novella unlike any...
Four young men have noticed a peculiar man wandering around the streets downtown where they work, muttering to himself with a trashbag slung over his ...
A collection of six bizarre and eerie short stories too strange to be published by respectable literary journals, 'Flotsam' will take you from hospital hallways to interstellar secrets, from underground hideouts to alien intruders, and from rabbit-murdering overdoses to revenge on the edge of global annihilation. Find out what mainstream and independent literary journals and small magazines DON'T want you to read Six stories by author Troy Blackford that aren't a good fit for sane publications, now presented together for the first time.
A collection of six bizarre and eerie short stories too strange to be published by respectable literary journals, 'Flotsam' will take you from hospita...