An unknown client contracted him to assassinate a quirky, unassuming middle-aged man with no apparent enemies and no violent tendencies. After the first attempt failed, the distraught hitman determined to learn what went wrong. During his covert discussions with his target, he hears an unusual story of astounding survival and astonishing physical endurance. How can one man survive so many attempts on his life? Is it a curse or a blessing? No matter how he tries, he cannot kill the Forever Man. An insightful short story.

She's twelve years old and she's desperately in love with the fourteen year-old boy who lives next door. He knows her as his best friend, but he's too preoccupied with this own travails to return her affection. After all, since his mother went missing three years previously, his father has become more violent and abusive with each passing day. Dorry longs to save her young love interest, but she feels powerless to do so. Young Dorry loves the fourteen year-old boy next door, but his abusive father is an endless distraction. She'll do anything to save her lover. An insightful short story.

On the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of the eleventh holy epoch, he killed God. First, you're probably asking, "Why eleven?" Second you're probably asking, "God with a capital 'G'?" Of the first question, the killer would only say "because." It's what the Big Guy wanted. Of the second question, the killer would answer "yes." God with a capital 'G'. Some say God is sleeping. Some say God is dead. In this story, the protagonist kills God with his bare hands. An insightful short story.

Football is big business in the United States, but it plays largest in Texas. In Texas, football money is BIG money, and the best players start young. During high school, college scouts come calling, but they're only seeking winners. Nobody likes to lose. Least of all, the most promising sportsman ever to play for Pecan Groves High School. King Charlemagne Ebersol. The booster club and the team coach will stop at nothing to put him on the field. Due to past scandals, the local high school plays under court-ordered supervision. How far will they go to recruit the King of youth football? An...

The mean streets of Skid Row teem with unhappy characters. Each has his or her own sordid tale to tell about their current condition and the sorry fate that has deposited them there. Meet "Narrator," a documentary film maker who has come to interview these hapless souls. Through the lens of his camera, he hopes to improve his understanding of their plight and the struggles they confront in their daily quest for survival. His story will focus on a minor mystery with major implications. Who killed Cassandra's cat? And why? An insightful short story.

Alter the future today by reading this story Edited untold eons into our future to manipulate their past, our present, word-by-word this story is meant to exact a desired effect from each reader. The resultant distortion of the individual psyche has a subtle but powerful ability to alter space and time, which exerts an exponential force on the future as it propagates through our population and then countless generations of our progeny to come. The editor of this tale is the last standing Veer, the lone survivor of a time-war devastating humankind's future. She needs your help today An...