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Craig A. Falconer

When his alien masters finally let their guard down, Chad Mitchell will be ready...

Chad Mitchell is an outsider. Born on an alien-controlled colony and with human servants for parents, a good life was never in his future. 

But as he develops into a remarkably fast learner and unrivalled pilot, Chad finds himself valued more and more by his autocratic alien overlords.

From the edge of the colony's inner circle, the true extent of the aliens' wickedness becomes apparent. Chad's human friends watch him mingle with the leadership and think he has changed — that he has sold out to the oppressors, enjoying the trappings of a new position and forgetting where he came from.

Chad Mitchell knows better.

As he works his way deeper and deeper into the colony's trusted circle of power, an opportunity looms on the horizon.

True freedom lies in wait if Chad's plan comes off, not just for himself but for every human on the colony.

The cost of failure, on the other hand, does not bear thinking about.

Freedom doesn't come cheap. And for Chad Mitchell, it sure as hell won't come easy...

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Bound For Glory is one in a series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

Garrett Kiesel

Craig Falconer

Sci-Fi Sizzlers

Bound For Glory

The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the sun…

On their golden wedding anniversary, Lorraine Green and her husband made an unbreakable pact:

As the surviving partner, her life insurance payout will fund a one-way ticket to the solar system's most exclusive retirement community: Sunset Stays.

Her children say she is too old. Too vulnerable. Too frail to face the many risks of space travel.

But Lorraine Green is nothing of the sort.

Though the real reason for the pact can never cross Lorraine's lips, she leaves no doubt that her mind is made up.

The adventure of a lifetime calls... but so does a burning thirst for justice.

Because millions of miles from Earth, in a tranquil paradise of blue skies and golden fields, a painful score lies unsettled.

And in her seventy-fifth trip around the sun, Lorraine Green will do whatever it takes to put things right…

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Sunset Stays is one in a series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

Megan Carter

Sunset Stays

Of all the jobs to fall asleep on...

As the well-tipped tour guide at a model town within a nuclear test site in 1950s Nevada, Darren Murphy has a job to die for.

His work is easy and relaxed, much like himself, drawing envy from his wide circle of friends.

But one fateful day after one particularly late night in the burgeoning city of Las Vegas, Darren makes a huge mistake.

The mother of all accidents

"I'll try my best to get us all out of here before the next bomb goes off..." Murphy often jokes to his rapt tour groups.

Only this time, due to a slip-up no one could have foreseen, his best might not be enough.

And when the dust settles after a remarkably powerful nearby detonation, the man looking back at Darren Murphy in the model house's mirror might not be the one who stood there before the blast...

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Megaton Murphy is one in a series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

Eric Reed

Megaton Murphy

There's no time like the present, but there's no place like Yester Year...

When Paula Frederick gets a weekend job on Dream Rock, a former prison island that now serves as the world's largest leisure destination, she can hardly believe her luck.

Dream Rock's outlandish surroundings are a welcome break from her studies. Paula's fully costumed role within the island's smallest zone, a medieval-themed amusement park called Yester Year, seems set to allow for even more immersive fun than she imagined.

Not even hazing from some mean-spirited colleagues can dampen Paula's spirits — at least until a trip through the wrong door reveals that the old stories about some kind of mysterious vortex beneath the island might have been more than fanciful rumours, after all.

Full immersion in the world of centuries gone by was all fun and games... when there was a way back.

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Yester Year is one in a series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

Yester Year

Flash your blues away with Happy, Inc — results guaranteed!

In a world where the scourge of emotion has been defeated, Happy Inc's services subtly influence every citizen throughout the day.

The elimination of jealousy and anger has sent crime rates plummeting. But on the other side of the coin, the elimination of ambition and dissatisfaction has rendered creativity a thing of the past.

Gillian Reid, a promising Happy Inc employee, excels without excitement and succeeds without pride.

Like everyone else, she has always been comfortable but never truly happy. Like everyone else's, her Emotional Volatility has always been limited to stay within the bounds of a mediocre middle.

Gillian Reid's life plays out like any other, until one fateful day... when her EV limiter stops working.

And with her eyes truly open for the first time, Gillian Reid does not like what she sees...

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Happy, Inc. is one in a series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

Happy, Inc.

Every family has a Funscreen on their wall. The question is... who's watching who?

When the government's new private welfare system begins rewarding unemployed viewers for watching the right kind of ads, Roger Birch welcomes a Funscreen into his home.

Like millions of others, Roger and his family soon depend on ad-viewing income for their survival.

Unlike millions of others, the events of one uncomfortable evening leave Roger aware of the government's shadier reasons for investing in Funscreens.

With HD cameras hidden behind a 60-inch glass veil, the answer was staring him in the face all along...

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Funscreen is one in a series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

Steven Barnett

Funscreen

The strange sounds. The weird lights. The ever-increasing mystery around Farmer Johnson's barn...

When Tobias and Kira raise the alarm from the next farm over, they're dismissed as two meddling kids with two overactive imaginations.

But as the Halloween festival draws near and tourists flock to their usually sleepy town of Hallow Creek, those two meddling kids' one crazy idea might be the only thing that can stop disaster in its tracks.

No tricks. No treats. Just a pumpkin splice shockoccino with a dash of danger and a sprinkle of terror...

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Pumpkin Splice is one in a series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer

Hector Carrillo

Pumpkin Splice

A truly unique tale of first contact from the author of Not Alone and Last Man Standing.

Trillions of miles from home, the first human Seedling is about to be hatched...

Fifty years ago, humanity launched a probe to a distant alien world.

Thirty years ago, it arrived.

And today... contact will be made.

When alien scientists studying a mysterious object detect unfamiliar DNA, they set to work on cloning the being responsible for the incredible technology.

Now, all alone and trillions of miles from home, their fully grown human Seedling is about to be hatched...

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Seedling is one in a series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

Seedling

Their ticket to the stars wasn't supposed to be one-way...

When a group of prize-winning high school students blasted off on a mission to space, their parents beamed with pride.

When news of the disaster came in, a nation mourned.

But nothing is truly as it seems.

Now, when one couple spots a hole in the official story, their grief morphs into a determination to find out what has really happened to their son.

No matter what, they will stop at nothing in their hopeful bid to see him again.

And the truth they uncover could change the world forever...

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Empty Nesters is one in a series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

Empty Nesters

Time is the tonic. So why wait?

Time travel doesn't exist.

Sure, it would be great if it did. It would be great if the hype wasn't all bluster.

With huge funding behind them, ChronoTonic claims to have achieved the impossible. The corporation is pushing its new machine — a time machine — as the solution to Earth's problems.

I'm just not buying it.

They want to buzz forward in time, pick up a few technological advancements, and buzz back to apply them in the here and now. They say we can save lives and reduce suffering by learning the lessons of the future — today.

The same corporate overlords that got us into these problems are apparently going to get us out of them. Yeah... I'll believe that when I see it.

I think it's all empty hype.

And if it's not, I sure as hell don't trust ChronoTonic to use this technology as altruistically as they claim.

After years of hype, today is the day when they will finally reveal the machine.

I have media clearance to be in the audience, but I have bigger plans than that.

Once I get inside ChronoTonic HQ, I'm not sitting in the crowd.

No. That's not what investigative journalists do.

I'm stepping in with one goal in mind:

Wherever or whenever the truth is hiding... I'm going to find it.

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Sci-Fi Sizzlers are standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!