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This is a collection of short fiction, poetry, and travel stories appropriate for young adult readers. I put it together after numerous requests from former students. It's a sizable book with plenty of meat in it, too.

There is a world, not too far in our own future, where advertisements travel on a tight-beam directly through your open eye and into your subconscious. It is a place where all public goods have been privatized and monetized. Everything from using the sidewalk to breathing fresh oxygen is added to your ever-increasing debt. In this world, can a good, honest man find a way to fight back? Is there any way to save it, but to burn it all to the ground?

Come take a journey. Some will be thrilling, some will be terrifying. Your companions will be stalwart friends, lovers, betrayers, and perhaps a monster or two. Faces: What can you do when the moaning, endless faces start appearing? Screaming Across the Endless Void: Pris is a poet who is traveling inside an ancient ruin inside a star ship. The only thing more thrilling is the conspiracy she uncovers. Wayne: A simple tale of a man and his best friend. Maybe a bloodthirsty monster, too. The Adventure Club: Traveling the world, partying, shagging hot birds, The Adventure Club are all the guys you want to hang out with. They lead a charmed life. This can only have a ...

The Elite have taken over the Earth. Their fantastic powers make them the equal of any normal army, but with great power has come total corruption. Now the world is dying as the Elite squabble between their petty, feudal kingdoms. But an unlikely alliance between brilliant, mortal scientists and a sinister rogue out for revenge might just be the world's last hope. Come and read about the last stand of humanity, the epic clashes between gods, and the final gambit that could change everything.

A collection of three short stories that all go for a walk on the dark side of the street. Hepburn Left for the Coast: A man makes a strange and wonderful discovery of a mad scientist and his fantastic machine. The death and destruction that follows them only comes after Hepburn leaves for the coast. The Wait: Just how do those slasher movie killers set up such a perfect lair? Do they have to practice? What do they do in their down time between victims? Vox: The Voice came just at Heather's darkest moment and the Voice seems to be helping her. It's no guardian angel, though, but something much more physical. And violent.

Deep inside a frozen cave something has awoken. Moving through the night, jumping from host to host, changing, mutating, it is moving closer to the small, mountain city of Valehart. Written from the perspective of an ancient supernatural entity, I Am Eternal details its most recent assault against our world. And all the terror, blood, and insanity that flows in its wake.

The story of a young mother and her daughter who flee to a small town to hide and start a new life. Lena likes her quiet job at the local flower shop and Emilia is most concerned with making friends and avoiding the monster under her bed. At first, Filbaun seems idyllic with its wide main street, friendly folks, and bucolic values. But soon there are sounds in the night, the feeling of being watched in the day time, and everyone is dreading the coming May. Soon, Lena realizes that the monster under her daughter's bed might not just be a child's imagination. Lena will have to try and uncover the mystery of this town and then, when she fully realizes the horror, attempt to get ...

This right here is a collection of short fiction, poetry, 55 word short stories, travel writing, and sketches. I created it for my former students, but anyone can enjoy stories of adventure and terror, interactive poems where you draw on the page, and lots of true travel stories from around the world.