Fantasy Short Stories

This sequel to the Hugo and Audie Award nominated METAtropolis features interconnected stories by today’s top writers of speculative fiction – performed by a galaxy of Star Trek stars. As the mid-20th century approaches, the Pacific Northwest has been transformed - politically, economically, and ecologically - into the new reality of Cascadia. Conspiracies and secrets threaten the tenuous threads of society. And the End of Days seems nearer than ever.

Welcome to the Crucible - an artificial planet larger than our sun - an ever-growing patchwork of countless other worlds, filled with creatures, sentient beings and societies stolen from across the universe by the mythical Architects. Across this dizzying juxtaposition of alien biospheres, the enigmatic and godlike Archons seek to unlock the secrets at the heart of the Crucible. Everyone else is just trying to survive....

Jane Yellowrock and the Younger brothers, partners in Yellowrock Securities, are hired by the state of Louisiana to track, hunt, and dispatch a small pack of marauding werewolves. They may be part of the larger pack that Jane destroyed in the novel Mercy Blade. The job sounds easy on the surface, but is anything ever easy for Jane or her Beast?

An all-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer, is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first audiobook of short fiction by number New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson.

5 Stories, 4 Bosses, 1 Husband Who Likes to Watch I'm an insatiable wife and my husband loves to let me surrender to the thrill of being used by other men. When my bosses surprise me with a trip to a freeuse resort, it opens the door to a whole new world. From that wild weekend, my fantasies follow me back to the office — where the four powerful lawyers I work for are more than ready to take control. Now, for one week, my workdays are filled with teasing and temptation at every opportunity with my husband’s full support. Includes: The Freeuse Plaything The Freeuse Office Slut Freeuse ...

A classic tale featuring two of the most-memorable characters in sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Over a span of 50 years, the late Fritz Leiber wrote dozens of adventures, set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, featuring the seven-foot-tall barbarian and the diminuitive thief. The stories were recognized with both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Get eight of Connor Jax's hottest straight to gay first time MM stories in one BIG collection. This anthology is full of stories about gym bros who can't stop checking each other out while they're getting a pump on at the local gym! When washboard abs, bulging pecs, and impossibly large...biceps finally make lust take over, these gym bros cross the line for the very first time and go straight...to gay! The gym bros of Jack's Gym will do anything to get in one last rep even each other! Nothing is off limits from personal trainers to bullies, friends and enemies, and age difference, every ...

When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in "Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch". In "Open the Door and the Light Pours Through", a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. "Dreadful Young Ladies" demonstrates the strength and power - known and unknown - of the imagination. The World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead.

Kendra has been burned and broken, but this omega is ready to rise from the ashes. In the harsh and unforgiving underworld of Solstice Bay, omegas are marked with tattoos, their bodies adorned with the sigils of their claimed alphas. For Kendra, the tattoos she bears are more than just ink; they represent a life of restricted choices, a fate bound to the whims of others. But Kendra is no ordinary omega. Beneath her submissive veneer lies a fiery spirit yearning to break free from the chains of tradition. Fueled by an unwavering determination to forge her own destiny, Kendra's defiance ...

They won't stop until they've had all of me. I've been a bad little omega. I tried to double-cross five strong, powerful alphas. Dumb idea. It didn't take long for them to capture and collar me. As they unleash their fury on me, I discover my deepest desire is to be dominated. But I slowly realize this is more than just revenge. What if the alphas won't stop at punishing me for my crimes? What if they want to own me - forever? (Owned By The Alphas is a standalone paranormal reverse harem romance with dark elements. For mature readers only!)

When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe - and into the middle of the Thirty Years War - you'd better be adaptable to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable.

As a primal conjurer, Ryn Xaven is a rare sorcerer who can use all types of magic. When he bonds beautiful mages as his protectors and companions, his power grows. Together they'll root out devils, protect their world from demonic invasion, and keep each other warm on cold nights.

Chloe As the only human bartender at the Moonlight Den, I've learned to navigate the supernatural world with my wits and observation skills. But when a brooding bear shifter steps behind my bar one night, something shifts inside me. Kade's protective nature and haunted eyes draw me in, even as danger closes around us. When a rogue shifter targets me for my knowledge, I find myself caught between my independence and the undeniable pull toward the mountain man who's determined to keep me safe. But I won't be relegated to the sidelines—I have knowledge that could help save his world and mine...

A classic tale featuring two of the most-memorable characters in sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Over a span of 50 years, the late Fritz Leiber wrote dozens of adventures, set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, featuring the seven-foot-tall barbarian and the diminuitive thief. "Ill Met in Lankhmar" was honored with both the 1971 Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella.

The Bite of Winter: She is theirs to claim. They are hers to save. Zoey finds herself caught in Ian's and Connor's web of seduction. But as Christmas draws near and her grief deepens, happiness seems far out of reach. And Ian and Connor join forces to prove their love is sacred, special...and forever. His Little Vixen: Sadie Harris doesn't like immortals. After vampires leave her an orphan, she's raised by her grandmother at the edge of a werewolf pack's territory. As a fox shifter she knows the rules about werewolves.

Join the Librarian as he does his best to make the post-apocalyptic world a better place by protecting the weak, fighting injustice, squaring off against a group of former renaissance fair workers who have established a kingdom in the Rocky Mountains, and so on. Can one man make a difference in the face of such murderous cannibals and super smart bears? Probably not.

After a century of imprisonment, demons have broken free of the wardstones surrounding the Worldwound. As fiends flood south into civilized lands, Count Varian Jeggare and his hellspawn bodyguard, Radovan, must search through the ruins of a fallen nation for the blasphemous text that opened the gate to the Abyss in the first place - and that might hold the key to closing it.

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares.

"My jaw dropped at the sight of this topless, diapered woman that stood before me." Steven and Lily are the perfect couple; all that's missing to complete their love is a baby. For months they've been trying, and shopping…until the day Lily learns she can't have what she wants most. Now the duo has a mountain of baby gear and no baby to enjoy it. Lily concludes the best way to put her baby stockpile to good use (and get over her sudden loss) is to regress into a baby herself. Instead of *making* a baby, they'll take turns AGE PLAYING as one, discovering the best sex of their lives in the ...

Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of 19th-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a 20th-century master of the speculative.