Bizarre Times

From pro wrestling and Pokémon to Vince McMahon and Jerry Springer, this look at the low culture of the late '90s reveals its profound impact and how it continues to affect our culture and society today.

Recently widowed, Marie is finally free to explore her most secret desires. And what she wants most is to be the toy for Dave, her 18-year-old sudden roommate. She wants to be used by him whenever he likes, however he likes. Dave is innocent, but Marie is more than happy to convince him to submit to her desires, and his own. Check out this steamy short story full of fun free-use scenes as Marie and Dave learn that you're never too old to play with your toys!

*(Hello, I’m the Narrator, and welcome, my fiends, to a tale of twisted tragedy, petrifying producers, and stage fright so bad it could raise the dead, literally, they’re all over the place. They’re actually the production crew.)* *(Gather around for the opening monologue of ‘Tales From The Cryptkeeper William Shakespeare #1: Romeo Dracula and Juliet Van Helsing!’ and we can’t forget the subtitle ‘Part One: Cursed Starcrossed Lovers Who Are Really Having A Hard Time Of It’. For Pete’s sake! (Pete’s my non-related twin.) How do I put it? The book’s title is an ...

Bored of his monotonous life as a single guy, Dave leaves the city life and everything behind to go live with April, whom he had just met online a couple of days prior, in a tiny hidden village in the middle of nowhere. The moment they meet they feel it's right and quickly find themselves in ultra-erotic situations; without ever addressing them.

Weird Tales . . . Derek Hanes has always been lucky. Things always came easy. Maybe too easy. After always getting what he wants, his luck might be about to change when his polar opposite shows up on his doorstep Some people think the world is out to get them, but since the day he was born, that has been Otto's reality. He's been a boy on the run from an entire planet, with only a hired assassin standing between him and the 8 billion people trying to kill him. Salvadore Nash gets paid to find things. But his latest case finds him in possession of a mysterious artifact that has everyone ...

In the bleak chill of a winter Monday, Packenham Tuck, loath to get out of his warm bed, faces a funeral under a shroud of drizzle and gloom. Detesting the cold, the day, and the somber rituals, with a cynical eye, Tuck navigates the delicate dance of funeral etiquette. As he trudges through the familiar faces and predictable rites, a chilling discovery in the cemetery—a gravestone bearing his own name—upends his reality. In this poignant and darkly humorous short story, A Place of Rest explores the fragility of life, the weight of social obligation, and the eerie twist of fate that ...

"If you enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time or Tuck Everlasting, get ready for the treat Sandcastle for Pegasus is." –Jim Laughter, author of The Apostle Murders Sandcastle for Pegasus is the story of Martin Taylor, a devoted husband and father of a mentally challenged son, Luke. Martin's world is torn apart when, Candy, who suffers from a similar condition, vanishes and no one except for Martin seems to remember her. Clues indicate someone is traveling through time to undo the birth of anyone who doesn't measure up. Martin's son, Luke, is a target and attempts on his life have already been made. ...

Peculiar Monstrosities is packed with 14 exquisitely crafted stories from new and established authors of Bizarro fiction.

"Every bit as mind-bending and captivating as classic Murakami." -- Rusted Reviews “Stick with it to the plot twist and then you won’t want it to end.” -- A Feast of Books -------------------------------------------------- Why did she die? How much did I really know her? These are the questions Benny asks himself after finding Staci in the bathtub with her wrists slit. He spirals into a bout of depression. Two weeks later, she reappears as if nothing happened. But only for one night, and then she’s gone again. Two weeks later, it happens again, forcing Benny to ask himself a new set...

Erik thinks his problems are in the past after leading the slave revolt in The Valley of Despair only to discover that, while he was trapped in the time-warp surrounding the city, his alien captors had perfected a method whereby they might travel between the stars and had gone on to conquer every other planet in the known cosmos. But if the horrid grey men from Deneb think that Erik is going to just give up and die, they've badly misjudged the man. He'll never rest until the woman he loves, his friends, and his planet are free again. Although the odds are stacked against him, Erik will ...

Time travel is real and dangerous! Just ask Jonathan and Denise. In Book I of this series, you were introduced to Jonathan West and Katherine Denise Kramer in the year 2024. Jonathan was 18 and a new student living with the Kramer family when he met and became friends with the 98-year-old Kathryn Denise Kramer. During the three years prior to her death, Jonathan and Kathryn (Denise) grew very close. When she died at age 101 Jonathan gave the eulogy at her funeral. However, he missed that close relationship very dearly and remembered her comments about a portal and 1947 and the bottom floor....

When paramedic Tim Booth finds himself rushing a patient's dead cat to a (human) hospital's Emergency Department for resuscitation, he finds himself wondering where it all went wrong. From bedroom mishaps and hypochondriacs to suspicious rashes and freak cattle incidents, the doctors, nurses and paramedics of our hospital EDs have seen everything. Every day, Tim and his colleagues battle burnout, an overburdened healthcare system and compassion fatigue, powered only by caffeine, dark humour and a heartfelt drive to save lives.

A short tale concerning a strange email received. Elements of time travel teleportation, alternate realities/universes.

A man who terrifies women for fun, a would-be mystery writer stalking his unscrupulous editors, an old man fantasizing about shooting his neighbor, Brittany Spears revenging her kidnapping, a wannabe writer actually killing people to work out his plots, madness uniting painters and critics together in a bloodbath, a magical ring revealing a hidden killer, a vampire disguised as the syringe of an old junkie, young communists developing lucid dreaming as an antidote to the class struggle....