Stonethread Publishing: 199 books

This is an intense psychological suspense story by Nicolas Z Porter. Having just buried one child, how far will you go to get another one?

In this intense SF short story, Wesley Smithfield-Rush III, PhD, came aboard a shuttle as part of a space archaeology team to conduct an archaeological survey and inventory of an abandoned transport before it was recovered. It was an easy, routine way to keep his hand in and show off how much he knows. What harm could it do?

A homeless veteran wanders the streets, struggling with his ghosts as he vascillates between The World and his own reality, reliving the day he watched his best friend die.

After the Inter-Arab War of 2139, the world community began a second Holocaust, attempting to cleanse itself of the Jewish race once and for all with The Purge. With the assistance of sympathetic non-Jewish people, some children of Jewish families were spirited away. One, Jonathan Kirski, grew up...

Wes Crowley, a former Texas Ranger and US marshal from Santa Fe, has at long last given up his search to find a turncoat... and then he does.

Ellyn Cochran comes to find that everything is not always as it seems, even in the liberal fairytale world she hoped for.

Two men are on a camping trip in their favorite remote spot. Nearby is an ancient pueblocito in a crevice in a cliff above the Gila River. Was the pueblocito home to a shaman? It's a great place to explore, theorize and slather philosopy across the desert. Especially after the shaman makes an appearance.

This is an intense short story from Nick Porter. Consuela goes about her morning chores on the farm she and her husband have shared and worked for better than 50 years. But this morning he seems to be sleeping longer than usual.

In the waiting room of a psychologist's office, a man engages a woman in a conversation about personal responsibility and the mores of society.

This is an intense short story, a tale of war. Along with your companions, you're entering a village to the sounds of fireworks, or maybe bullets. You feel tired, fatigued, decide to rest for a bit, as it turns out, alongside an old woman who reminds you of your mother.

A fortune teller, a bent, crippled old man, a post-apocalyptic setting—what could go wrong? In this intense short story, Nick Porter stretches his capable hand to science fiction.

This is an intense short story that continues the story begun in Nick Porter's "Bird Huntin'." Two ten year old boys are the best of friends. One has a need that only his friend can fulfill. The other must pay the price for doing what's right.

Charlie Porter, 25, is stuck in the small town of Stillman where nothing exciting ever happens. Or does it? Everybody gets at least one chance to change their lives. Will Charlie take his?

In southern Alabama, things move at their own pace and are very seldom what they seem. Come along on this intense short story by Nick Porter.