The officers of Space Command do battle with immobilized spiders entrapped in ice - which is more dangerous than it sounds!

This story is an anthology. And though it is an anthology, it doesn't mean that I'll get done with each story in one chapter. Oh no- most have multiple parts. Something surreal and impossible will happen to each main character for these stories. If something is not answered, then you'll find out what happened for my last short story, which will wrap it up. I don't know how many I'll do for this series, but we'll find out! Also, I was inspired from the creepy- yet blood free- atmosphere of The Twilight Zone to write this. Each story will take place in modern reality. The short stories~ The Hooded Man One day, strange things start happening to a woman. A strange scratching in her head. 'Misplacing things randomly'. And then, of course- there are the dreams of him. The Hooded Man. He shows up in every one of her dreams and makes her spine crawl. One day she becomes hysterical when her husband suddenly disappears and... something very weird, and very strange happens to her- and death has nothing to do with it.

The Sol system is under attack from the merciless Bet'lathe Worldship. Our great fleet is hopelessly outmatched by the titanic, star devouring ship and Earths only hope lies with her greatest weapon. The Dreadnaught Invictus!

(Historical Fiction / Action) - Gunslinger: I may be feared and admired, but I call nowhere home. My gun and my skill define my existence. I was born fast, and endless practice has made me the best. For now. A brief rush of adrenaline. Noise, the smell of cordite, and one of us crumples to the dust. This time it was him. I leave nothing but dried blood in the sand...

Charlie Summers didn't expect her first day on the job to be this adventurous. It's Charlie's first day as Detective Sergeant Summers and she is in for a spectacular time. She expected it to be quieter but when a murdered woman turns up on a Sydney monorail things are about to get ugly. Whilst she is trying to solve her first crime Charlie must learn to navigate her way around her secretive, critical and down-right scary boss Detective Inspector Thomas King as well as the street-smart, flirtatious and arrogant Private Investigator Andrew West. Luckily she has a few people to help her on the way. But things are not always as they seem. Charlie discovers there's a lot to her boss and how there is a dangerous rivalry between King and West, stemming from long ago. Through this Charlie must keep her wits about her hiding the secrets of others and especially her. Not to mention the dead body of a girl where the whole fiasco begins.

They were like Adam and Eve, but it was neither an apple nor a snake that caused the others fall into temptation, it was each other. Despite his flaws Ned found the perfect girl (Maggie), who looked through his imperfections. Ned battles his own insecurities in an attempt to try and hold on to the girl, he thinks he doesn't deserve.

In the fall of 2010, sixteen teenagers suddenly vanished without a trace from a small suburban town in the Midwest. Each one was sixteen years old. There were no witnesses, no ransom notes, no clues whatsoever as to what happened to them. The community was devastated and the police were baffled until they all suddenly reappeared, sixteen weeks later with extraordinary new powers and no memory of where they had been or what was coming next. ** PLEASE NOTE - this is a rough draft of a future full length novel - it is ON HOLD right now

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Death is unsociable and not liked, so he's getting an assistant, whether he wants one or not. All the traditions of passing over into the next life are turned topsy turvy as Popov is assigned to help out and tries to make passing over 'more interesting'. Even God gets a holiday when Popov is on the case and 'Demise and co' become the department of the year.

The Dustbowl and tequila aren't likely to erase the regrets haunting the Fourth Horseman, but when annihilation is your sole purpose how can you find substance for your soul? "A provocative moral tale as much about embracing life as meeting Death." Sometimes prayers are best left unanswered. After the equivalence of centuries worth of service as Death, the former man is left wondering whether dying would have indeed been a more desirable option. The buzz of phasing in and out of temporal existence and lopping off heads only lasts so long. But when Death chooses to act on an event he recognizes as an "act of God," he discovers his calling to be more nobel than he thought. "Never has Death been so human as a kiddie pool, a folder chair and a bottle of regret. If only the other three horseman could be as easy to relate to."