This definitive collection of short stories and 100-word drabbles from author Stephen G. Parks’ early career covers a wide range of genres from deep space conflict to Shakespearean scenes to a dystopian near future.
Among the stories included:
Every day is the same: we get up, we work hard, one or two of us die. It’ll be my turn soon enough.
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Deacon Carver, sixteen, lives in a dead-end town. Generations come and generations go. No one really escapes. So why not play deadly games?
The Sylvester is being attacked by pirates around the far side of the Moon. The yacht’s fate depends on the owner’s spoiled man-child and his bickering friends.
The Grim Reaper has been summoned by many a foolish person over the course of history. But this summons, from the IRS, feels…different.
Jeremy just wants to honor his dead wife. But in a world where memories are forced to fade, doing so will mean evading detection of a surveillance state.
William Shakespeare seems to have left out one important scene: Romeo’s time in exile. So here it is, a lonely Romeo decries his missing love…Rosaline?
