This collection contains fantasy and Science Fiction short stories that have all been published previously in venues like the Edge of Propinquity, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Byzarium, M-Brane SF, Realms, and many others.

Table of Contents:

Highway – Infinitas Newsletter

Bigger Fish – Fantastic Wonder Stories Anthology

Black Dragon – The Edge of Propinquity

Mass Extinction – Antipodean SF

Legal Aliens – Semaphore

Little Boy Lost – Midnight Echo

The Ten Days of Madness – Antipodean SF

From the Parrot’s Mouth – Beyond Centauri

Metal Dragon – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

Never on a Birthday – Byzarium

Out of Here – M-Brane SF

Raven’s Call – Realms

Taking back the Words – Ticonderoga Online

The Only One He Ever Feared – Fly in Amber

The Weed Eaters – The Fat Man At The End of the World Anthology

Straight through the Heart – ZineWest

To Look at the Sky – Semaphore SF

The Invisible Fleas of the Galaxy – M-Brane SF

A collection of fifteen novellettes and novellas by Patty Jansen. This collection includes the Writers of the Future winning story This Peaceful State Of War, as well as fiction published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

Many of the stories take place in established worlds. Although the stories all stand alone, they explain aspects that are linked to novels, like the ISF-Allion world.

Learn why Charlotte West became the head of an army.

See how mischievous Ari is when he is fifteen.

Learn what happened to Hadie Kessler on Titan.

Or, in the Earth-gamra world, learn how Hedron was settled and why the people there are different.

Make sure you don’t miss the 40,000-word absurd zombie novella Looking For Daddy.

Three novellettes, previously published in anthologies:

– This Deceitful State Of Truth

A story set in the same world as the Award-winning story This Peaceful State Of War.

– Juno Triumphant

Set in the ISF-Allion world, this story follows on from the novel Juno Rising.

– No Eye In Emily

Set in the ISF-Allion world, the tale of two rival women, both with the same name, from very different backgrounds.