Chiaroscuro Press: 9 books

Maikro collects 112 haiku and 47 works of microfiction, most falling in the speculative fiction realm (science fiction, fantasy, horror) with a few literary pieces tossed into the mix: slick sea stones glimmer golden leviathan sinks night soars on gulls' wings wise elder wordsmyth telling...

Dahlia, the last human child, has been summoned to a banquet in her honor by the Elders of the Great Council. Her escort, Brawnstone the trollgre, must carry her through the dangerous ruins of a human city, deep into the abandoned warehouse district where the feast is to be held. No one knows this little girl's dark secret -- not even Dahlia herself.

Horror, humor, and science fiction collide in this collection of weird tales about possible futures, warped present-day realities, and alternate history. Unreliable narrators run rampant alongside aliens, ghosts, bullies, cannibals, home invaders, heroes, villains, unimaginable creatures, and...

Alienated collects 5 speculative fiction stories: "Insight" - A sculptor is able to see beyond our reality, but can she control her insatiable desires? "In His Eyes" - On a farm in the distant future, an unwelcome visitor appears in the middle of a thunderstorm. "Reverie"...

**Out of Time collects two un-timely tales: ** "One More Tuesday" - Josef finds himself trapped with only one way out—and a life or death decision once he discovers how to free himself.  "Leap Day" - Joan experiences a time distortion in her own apartment, and she must weave her knowledge of the past and future in order to survive the present. 

Who is Mercer? Coyote. Soul Smuggler. A body-hopping, phantasmal anti-hero. A disenfranchised spirit doomed to inherit the earth, cursed by both Heaven and Hell. An enemy of God, but no friend of the devil. Soul Smuggler collects 9 Mercer tales: "The Coyote"...

Joe ain't no hero. He just wants to die. The kids they call him "Roadkill" on account of how them Horrors sucked him up into the sky to have their way with him, then dropped him in the middle of a street full of traffic. Must've gotten run over five or six times before them cars and...

Into the Wastes collects 10 short stories from the post-apocalyptic badlands: Soulless in His Sight You Kill Me Survival of the Fittest For a Handful of Crowns Drawn from a World of Hurt Breath of Life Sins of the Father Like Clockwork When Tomorrow Comes Idan's World

Deep Space collects 7 short stories from the outer rim: Live by the Ten, Die by the Gun From Gaia to Proxima Centauri Resurrection of the Hornet Autonomic Zen and the Art of Destruction From Scheol My Soulfire Burns Dance by the Light of the Moon Tomorrow's Dawn