The Way Between Realms: A Collection of 21 Flash Fiction Pieces
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Fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and more make up this collection of 21 swift tales. Visit strange worlds—heaven’s edge, demon-haunted avenues, lunar deserts, and war-torn worlds—and be back by dinnertime.
Stories include..
- The Realm of the Tao — An explorer climbs toward heaven and lands in a realm where logic was born.
- Don’t Take It Personally — In the 23rd-century Indonesian Space Empire, a smuggler finds a stowaway alien woman and her baby.
- The Altair Prime Rebellion — Two United Earth legionary commanders weigh justice against orders as a planetary revolt rages on.
- Nate’s Call to Adventure — A New Jersey nobody finds a corpse in a self-driving car and a message: don’t call the police.
- The Missing Address — A courier’s once-in-a-lifetime delivery leads to a numbered door that shouldn’t exist.
- At Demonic DC — All hell breaks loose in Washington, literally.
- Requiem for Fatimah — A pocong is on the loose, and it’s up to Father Tim to put her to rest.
- The State of the Cosmos — Dr. Belloc have spent his whole life studying every bit of the observable cosmos and found order, but his boss at the Institute wants chaos.
- The Atominian Dimension — A portal explorer is marooned in another world where time runs differently.
- Decennial — Noah turns ten tomorrow, the state’s limit for life, just in time to find love.
- The Restoration of Chivalry — Don Chicharito seeks to restore chivalry to broken San Angeles, one rescued stranger at a time.
- Look Out, There’s an Alligator! — On his way home from work, a boy learns how quickly calm water sharpens into teeth.
- Sir Ramsey and the Princess of Northland — Brave Sir Ramsey crosses monstered forests and warring realms for the sake of his beloved Ingrid.
- The Aliens of Calvary IV — A mercenary team lands on Calvary IV to learn why the Dominus Colony went silent.
- The King of the Lizards — Tyrannosaurus reigns as the King of the Cretaceous—until another monster descends from the sky.
- The Ghosts of Somme VI — On the eve of L-Day, Captain Klay Wilkins faces the one field he never left.
- Cassia — Inspector Cassia Larsen smiles like a promise; Santiago the Generalissimo wonders which trap he’s already in.
- Emilia — The family TV speaks, and her name is Emilia.
- Hell is the Moon — You wake up alone on the Moon, utterly alone.
- Battle on the Holy Plane — Alexandros, the Strongest There Is, meets his son from another realm in a death battle.
- The Final Obstacle — Dr. Gerard Gibson seeks to escape Thalassa—freedom awaits if he can break the last wall.