In the dim swampland of his mind, Boris has always dreamed of working with fast food. A well heeled lady almost misses an elevator, but she will desperately wish that she had. For the first time, eight of BP Gregory's unusual and sometimes horrifying short stories are available to enjoy together in Cacophony.

A paroled monster, a prostitute and a policeman all see a little girl lost, but this isn't the start of a joke. An isolated, frail old man trapped in his apartment; what possible threat could he pose to the sociopaths next door? Take a stroll down humanity's eerie back alleys and enjoy BP Gregory's newest short science fiction, urban fantasy and horror stories neatly packaged together in Orotund: Collected Short Stories Volume Two.

A sky without a sun. A world with no universe. Mankind's one attempt at greatness left society irreparably warped. Bland normality now to Cath who lost everything in the bargain, even coffee. But she's not going to get to cower in her quiet life much longer. The hideous void has spat back the first of the brave explorers, splintered in mind and body. Only a lunatic would wish to extract from his blasted mind the horrifying secret to Outside. But one man thinks he can change everyone's destiny, for better this time. And willing or not he'll need Catherine to do it.

Perhaps the world ended, and we brought it on ourselves. But only Joyce noticed the whimper. And she might just be tits-out crazy. Along with smarmy Sam, life's impossible tourist, a trucker's death draws Joyce down the last highway into the desert's beating heart. And at the Judgment Day Diner they will be caught up in a maelstrom of adultery, lies and hidden violence. Intended for adult readers, science fiction/humour novel Automatons is a stripping bare of the ways people stumble blindly down the same old paths, and how we find it so much easier to be humane to our technology rather than...

Long ago humanity retreated into migrating cities, leaving the landscape to monsters. Within the safety of walls the caste of Surgeons are denied human touch to preserve their skills. A Surgeon must not be touched. The city can never stop. Comforting truths to live by. But the other cities have fallen silent. Fear stalks the streets. And John the Surgeon craves touch more than anything. Monsters, machines and roaming cities, insanity, betrayal and lust: centuries later, the seeds of grim legacy sown in Automatons have borne strange fruit indeed...