Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead. ***** When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

After the Aurora spacecraft was shot down by an unknown, presumably alien, weapon while exercising a usual slingshot maneuver around alien planet 4546b, you hurry to a life pod in an attempt to escape. You have a few nutrient bricks, a couple bottles of purified water, and 2 flares. A few things break, you are knocked out, and you wake up with fire licking your feet. You manage to put the fire out with the emergency extinguisher. You climb the ladder to the outside. Planet 4546b is a planet completely covered with water, spare a few islands. You have no idea what is in the water, but you are out of food and water. The readings for the water say that it has a large amount of unknown bacteria, but your life pod is damaged and you can not risk another fire. You ask yourself, would I rather die of dehydration on a planet full of water, or take a swim. You dive in.

What if time travel is like alcoholism? Shouldn't mermaids have blubber to stay warm in the ocean? These short stories of fantasy and science fiction explore the weird, the bizarre, and the concretization of untenable fantasies. ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ Abby Goldsmith is the author of an epic dark sci-fi fantasy series published by Podium and narrated by George Newbern. The Torth series begins with Majority, available on Kindle, Audible, and carried by Ingram. https://abbygoldsmith.com/majority

Here you will find a vast collection of story type riddles. These stories are "scary when you know the meaning". Can you find the creepy hidden meaning in each one? welcome to the unknown...Detective. May the odds be ever in your favor. HAHAHAHAHA