She wouldn’t deserve to be called The Grandmaster of Theft if she couldn’t steal The Maker’s Tear…  Part crime solver, part crime causer, the cunning heiress Cassidy Cain pursues her own brand of noblesse oblige as The Grandmaster of Theft, a lady thief who uses her privilege and wits for those with...

A secluded tropical island. An unexpected letter from an expert zombie researcher. A decade after the last zombie sighting, it's all the reason Oliver needs to buy a one-way ticket to the island. The threat he uncovers is unlike anything he has ever experienced before. Only one question matters: wil...

Even in a world with witches, sorcerers, and alchemists, psychics are rare. There are normally fewer than a hundred in a century—which is why the Torr is so confounded when they get a letter from the headmaster of an English boarding school who claims that there are over a hundred psychics studying ...

Athena is a Speedster who was always very good at getting away from problems when they were more than she could handle. That’s what this next mission was going to be, getting away and dealing with issues that one girl could handle. That didn’t exactly work out. As she investigates the strange events...

"How far would you go for the sake of revenge?" That is the question that Yuri was faced with when her mother was brutally murdered, and she was held up for charges of her own mother's murder. Nearly a decade later, she is now an accomplished assassin - a member of the underground organisation, Ha...

Was it a dream? Was it real? What happened last night? Theo Morgan searches for these answers, but will they be the answers he hopes for? Or will he find himself down a dark path? Detective Patrick Turner is determined to find The Paperboy or will The Paperboy find him first?...

Agents of the Eastern Coalition Secret Service are tasked with investigating the Assyrian Liberation Army - a terrorist organization of radical Assyrians who want to overthrow the current government - and its weapons supply. One potentially leading to the Organization of Free Kingdoms.  [2nd short s...

The Dragonslayer's Party have made names for themselves in the world as living legends, the kinds you hear of being sung in taverns by bards. Led by the titular Dragonslayer, Kalaman Kampus the Invincible, the party has faced very little defeat over the many years they've been active. When war begin...

Some believe Time has been murdered. What once was linear is now uncertain. The spatial dimensions are adrift and unruled; even Tenses vie to be foremost. ∞ Others think Time is gravely wounded or missing, and hope yet remains. Constants the same and variables rearranged. ∞Me? Oh, we will meet again...

In the not so distant future, when the solar system has been divided among the highest bidders for profit and gain. One small start up company is forced to rely upon a manned mission to the planet Mercury to investigate why their automatic prospectors keep shutting down....

A Field of Persistance is about an 18-year old boy who gets lost in a mysterious cornfield trying to find his dad....

When a body turns up frozen mid-stride in the hottest time of year, the FBI enlists Dr. Josefine Wolfe's assistance in solving the case. All signs point to magic and Josefine's friend Emilius Solomon gets caught in the crosshairs of the investigation....

In 1923, FBI Alienist Dr. Josefine Wolfe was fired from her job and looking for a new puzzle when she found it in the waitress at her local cafe's claim, "There is something under my bed every night."...

In a world where the boundary between life and death blurs, "Book of the Undead" unfolds the haunting tale of Aloch, a warrior damned to roam the Earth for eternity. Upon his death, Aloch's soul is denied entry into the afterlife, tormented by the countless lives he took in his brutal existence. His...

Forgetting the world, I dreamed machines . . . The Inwold is broken. Years have passed since the Rath invaded Naemia, and the 'holy' Celestri closed their doors to the world. Only Vorth, the lonely outland of the desert, remains a nation. But Rath are moving again. Desert forces have retreated to th...

Disclaimer: Prior knowledge of the Halo video game and universe is not required to read this story. ___________________ When the Aliens, the Covenant, invaded, it seemed as if Mankind had no hope. Then the Spartans came to the rescue. These genetically modified super soldiers, originally meant to qu...

The water level of Ystets Lake is rising without explanation. Maxie the hydrologist and her thrill-seeking companion are out to investigate; they've come prepared for the man-eating aliens in the surrounding forest, but what they aren't ready for is the lake itself. Also in the AUU-16 universe: Sou...

Riley Averline is used to danger, one has to be to be a member of the Order of Cerberus, and yet he's never seen anything quite like this. Werewolves are being targeted, left dead in side alleys with their blood drained. All signs indicate vampires are involved, but every local coven insists on thei...

Aster is an Adept — a magical warrior serving the powerful Blackwood mage family. He has important duties like sweeping the training arena, milking harmless pixies for their pixie dust, and battling to the death to protect the family’s heir from supernatural threats against her. Aster is attacked by...

Would you rather die for love or kill for love? My sister lives her life looking through rose-colored glasses. It comes from looking at the world through blood... a vampire's gaze. It's a world where everyone wants to drink her blood like she's wine. How much can she give before she flows over? And ...