One of the winners of the OnceUponNow contest! Of Sirens and Beasts will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster on October 11th in the Once Upon Now Anthology! Football uniforms and tutus do not make a pretty picture. That is what Cal's football team, the Beasts, strongly believe. So when their coach randomly decides twelve of them will be taught ballet by a group of twelve sisters, they aren't planning to take any of it seriously. But after waking up in the mornings and not remembering anything of the ballet classes the night before and with the number of football players seeming to shrink, will Cal catch on to the twelve deadly dancing beauties' game before he himself falls into their captivating song of death? Cover by @emi-leexoxo Highest ranking: 314 in Fantasy

When one of her own goes missing, young mermaid Miranda enlists the help of a VooDoo priestess to solve the mystery. But when an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico forces Miranda and her pod of fellow merfolk to choose between extinction and transformation, Miranda will not only get to the bottom of the merfolk disappearances, but may also become part of the mystery. A modern retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid," The Little Mermaid of the Gulf is an entry for the #OnceUponNow writing contest, which embraces my enduring love of mermaid folklore. Read, vote, and comment to let me know what you think! :-)

After a power outage that shook the world, a tsunami that left her hometown underwater, and a viral disease that resulted in a separation from the rest of her family, Kassandra Tate thought she'd never live to actually see the monsters behind the first three waves of the apocalypse. That is, until she realizes the monster has always been inside of her. Killing other humans isn't something Kassandra would ever choose to do, but she doesn't have a choice. There is this voice in the back of her head saying things she can't comprehend--this inescapable instinct pulling her to do the unthinkable. Murder is the only thing on her mind when she shows up at a makeshift shelter near the washed-up remains of her home in California, but before she can so much as make a move, she notices just who the refugees are: a girl and a boy around her age, and--most surprisingly--her twin sister Kalina. Kalina was supposed to have died long ago in the epidemic. She and the rest of their family had been quarantined into a sick-ward of their safety camp, and Kassandra had been told that survival was hopeless--that they were goners. So what was Kalina doing here now, alive? In an attempt to reconnect with her twin, Kassandra curves her urge to attack as best as she can. The longer she stays with Kalina and the refugees, however, the harder she finds it is to keep her composure. How can Kassandra control the Silencer within her, before it takes over completely?

The world's richest venture capitalist Fiona McCallister learned the hard way that money can't buy you everything. Grieving from the loss of her daughter who died in the 2018 London Smog Event, she decides to run a competition to try to find a new, revolutionary and renewable way of generating electricity. The prize-a life changing billion dollar contract to produce the design. Struggling to balance life as both a leading renewable energy scientist and as a single father, Joe Grayson is currently working on the next generation of wind turbines. Frustrated in his current role, by needless bureaucracy and government funding cutbacks, Joe takes up McCallister's challenge and learns that some people in clean energy can play dirty, and that the best ideas can sometimes come from the most unusual places.

Some people grow up listening to fairy tales, some to folk stories. For Rory, nothing was better than the stories his grandfather told him of his family's epic adventures helping to build the railway of America. Stretching through two centuries, the Sullivan family had followed the rise of railways in America and Rory dreams that one day it would be his turn. Thanks to @purple_porpoise for the amazing cover design!

When young astronaut Johnny is denied the opportunity to travel to space, his best friend and GE Galactica virtual training programmer Alan programs a solution. But neither of the friends could imagine the impact their work would have in discovering the planet's place in space. Thanks to @scifiwriter for the amazing cover design!

Set in the Dark ages of the same Universe as POE Chronicles, a post-apocalypse future after the devastating nuclear war wide out a large portion of the human population and giving some the mutation to process power. A time where everyone is trying to survive and fear of nucleation ever so high, a group of young people will rise to bring peace. In Chaos come Order. In Darkness light will shine. This is a short novella on the prequel Dark Ages coming soon.

From the author of THE BLAST and THE DEATHLESS TRILOGY comes a book of short stories about the Deathless characters whose stories deserve to be told. This book features stories focused on the trilogy's secondary characters, providing insight into how they became the people we meet in THE DEATHLESS TRILOGY.

In this harrowing near-future short story, you can read about how a single mistake caused the extinction of the human race. I got the inspiration for this book from a website called www.waitbutwhy.com You guys should really go check out their site. They've got some really mind-blowing stuff written there.

This is a sketch book . This contains a number of experiments on a per chapter basis. The first chapter inside the atom is a the GE adventures ( @GeneralElectric's ) in science competition. Joe has disappeared for months after Liz's Physicist farther ridiculed the young engineer for believing in the impossible. Now Joe has turned up on Liz's front door to show her something he has created which defies the laws of physics and could power America. What is that dome in the distance - what secrets does it hide?