Alien invasions and countless other traumas are coming your way. Being snug in bed with the covers pulled over your head or desperately searching social media for happier news won’t protect you. Uncovering the truth is pointless because nobody will ever believe or care when you scream. You are alone and desperate in a planet-sized crowded room.

Jaymes Shore’s latest anthology features thirty-two bleak tales of science fiction, speculative fiction, and dark satire. These adventures concern some very nasty visitors from space, unpleasant transformations, technological nightmares, forced rebirth, post-apocalyptic inconveniences, malicious mind control, the consequences of societal stupidity, and dangerous delusions. They personify the alienation and the frustrations of our modern world, the state of which grows steadily worse as new forms of hell rain down upon us every day.

This book includes:

A VIEW FROM THE SWAMP

UNHAPPY PETS

PEACE IN YOUR TIME

A TRANSFORMATIONAL RELATIONSHIP

SHELTER FROM THE LATEST STORM

MANIFEST DESTINY

BRENDA HAS SEEN BETTER DAYS

RETIREMENT PLAN

CAN YOU STRANGLE A PUPPET WITH ITS OWN STRINGS?

THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION

AGGRESSION

LOVE IS A FATAL CONDITION

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GAVIN SAVES THE WORLD

SUMMER’S TIME

THE PRICE OF BEEF

THE CONNIVENCE OF MEMORY

INCIDENT AT VOYANT MANSION

FIVE LITTLE MIRACLES

GREETINGS FROM ASFARRE

CRAZY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE

WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR IDEAS?

A REALISTIC ALIEN INVASION

DESTRUCTION AND DEVASTATION

THE ENTERTAINING INVASION

COUSIN RALPH

EVENING GLORY

THE TWENTY DOLLAR MESSIAH

EVERYTHING EXCEPT LOVE, FREEDOM, HAPPINESS, AND A FUTURE

TIME AND SPACE

LIZARD PEOPLE FROM THE HOLLOW MOON

THE DEATH OF EVERYTHING: A LOVE STORY