The world has been overrun by monsters. Governments have toppled, nations have fallen. Desperation has ushered in a new world order. Welcome to The Bright Waste where violence is cheap and salvation is in short supply. Where survivors are brutal and compassion is a rare commodity. Akiva is a scavenger for The Mothers. Her job is to scour the bones of the old world for any vestige of value, and to stay alive. That's the hardest part when the monsters have other plans. Her only hope is to stay in the light, glorious and burning bright. Editor's Pick List: June 2020

{#81 in Science Fiction} Life. Exoplanet T1285-Q, Kronos, has confirmed signs of it. It's 2098 and Jason's team is ordered to go and observe and report over a span of twenty years. No one has any idea of what to expect. Intelligent species? The first stages of life? A dying world? This was different. No matter how much training, intelligence, and wit they had could prepare them. Nothing ever comes easy...especially life. #SpaceAward

"Under blue moon I saw you, So soon you'll take me." In which a boy with only a few hours left before a life changing surgery, meets a girl who easily distracts him from his impending fate. [SHORT STORY][COMPLETE][In Love and Death Series][Falling Overnight] Copyright © 2015 by soundthealarm