Elizabeth Chater: 9 books

A girl believes she doesn't fit anywhere until she gets a visit from an alien.A short story.

The power of the imagination reigns supreme as a mother and her son troll a junkyard for the parts to build a spaceship in their backyard.

On a routine flight from Earth to Mars, Captain Mark Rand discovers an attempt to smuggle drugged women in a cargo container. He and the ship's Factor are brought before the Controller. Soon after, the Factor winds up dead—and Captain Rand is falsely accused. But Captain Rand knows exactly...

When Wilfred first meets Lydia, she’s in the midst of a face-bashing, hair-pulling brawl in a dirty alley in Italy. He breaks up the fight and, feeling sorry for her, gives her the business card of his valet, Wiggins.Wiggins is then murdered.The Assistant Commissioner reluctantly sends...

A car looks as if it's hit a brick wall, but it hasn't impacted anything. The jewel thief inside is killed instantly, and paranormal detective Jamie Jarvis is put on the case. A short story.

On a dull grey morning in August, a boy climbing along the rocky shore near the resort town of Torbay in the south of England discovers a dead body in the surf. When he reports it to the police, he describes seeing a hooded figure atop the cliffs, beckoning him. With this testimony, paranormal police...

In a post-apocalyptic world, there’s a million-to-one chance that Steve Vannevar can succeed where the rest of the Suicide Squad had failed. Succeed, that is, in traveling back in time—reaching back into the months or weeks before that first attack, and persuading the nations of the Earth to hold their fire for the sake of the human race. A short story

A humorous look at one woman's battle with a sewing project.

A frail creature crawls in from the heat of the desert, clinging to life. Bill and the town doctor try to communicate with the being, and soon discover that it's from another planet. It has journeyed to Earth to offer an astonishing treasure in exchange for the medicine that will cure the children of its world. A short story.