The Journey Prize Stories is Canada's most celebrated annual fiction anthology. With settings ranging from Mount St. Helens, Barcelona, Halifax, Victoria Island, and Alberta's Red River Badlands, these stories represent the year's best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging writers. Among the stories this year: After months of trying to sell the worthless collection of sports cards his no-good father left behind, a boy is unprepared for a bizarre and surprisingly hilarious encounter with the "pile of human being" who wants to buy a card to complete his collection. In a story that balances wry humour with moments of sharp tension, a teenager with a crush on her high school English teacher blithely channels her frustrations by going on online dates with an older man. Two brothers embark on a road trip to bring their recovering father home from the hospital, in a poignant mediation on family and the things we try to recover of the past. Over the course of a...

This is the fifth issue of the classic science fiction pulp magazine Astounding Stories of Super-Science, published in May 1930 and edited by Harry Bates. The first four issues are also available on this site. The publication, having undergone several name changes during its long history, is now called Analog Science Fiction and Fact and is the longest running continuously published magazine of the genre. Because Astounding paid more per word than its competitors, it attracted some of the better-known pulp writers such as Murray Leinster, Victor Rousseau and Ray Cummings.VOL. II, No. 2MAY, 1930COVER DESIGN: H.W. WESSOLOWSKI, Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "The Atom-Smasher."CONTENTSINTO THE OCEAN'S DEPTHS by SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT - To Save Imee's Race of Men-Who-Returned-To-The-Sea, Two Land-Men Answer the Challenge of the Dreaded Rorn, Corsairs of the Under-Seas.MURDER MADNESS by MURRAY LEINSTER - Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service Men Had Completely Disappeared. Another Had Been Found a Screaming, Homicidal Maniac, Whose Fingers Writhed Like Snakes. So Bell, of the Secret "Trade," Plunges into South America After The Master -- the Mighty, Unknown Octopus of Power Whose Diabolical Poison Threatens a Continent! (Beginning a Four-part Novel.)BRIGANDS OF THE MOON by RAY CUMMINGS - Gregg and Anita Risk Quick, Sure Death in a Desperate Bluff on the Ruthless Martian Brigands. (Part Three of a Four-part Novel.)THE JOVIAN JEST by LILITH LORRAINE - There Came to Our Pigmy Planet a Radiant Wanderer with a Message—and a Jest—from the Vasty Universe.THE ATOM-SMASHER by VICTOR ROUSSEAU - Four Destinies Rocket Through the Strange Time-Space of the Fourth Dimension in Tode's Marvelous Atom-Smasher. (A Complete Novelette.)THE READERS' CORNER - A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.

Spend the 12 nights of Christmas with some seriously sexy men! You could – 1. Run away with Mr Tall, Dark and Handsome to Paris 2. Fall for your first love all over again 3. Become the mistress of an Arabian royal 4. Find a new life and a new love in the Pyrenees 5. Be whisked Cinderella-style from penniless single mum to pampered wife 6. Befriend a moody stranger 7. Enter a Christmas contest on a bet – with very high stakes! 8. Turn a rich Scrooge into a sexy Santa 9. Team up with a sexy FBI agent 10. Meet the man who broke your heart...who's still your husband! 11. Tell a dedicated doctor he's a dad! 12. Party on New Year's Eve and spot an old acquaintance

This new Xcite Books collection of sensational, sexy stories will arouse, excite and, occasionally, even shock you. A stunning selection of eight delicious stories from our best-selling authors including Charlotte Stein, K D Grace and Janine Ashbless.Behind the Blue Door by Charlotte SteinDean is prepared to do whatever it takes to be the best slave Sapphire has ever had. All it involves is obeying one simple instruction – never try to find out what lurks behind the dusty blue door at the top of the stairs. But is that an instruction too far for this curious submissive?Skyggen by Giselle RenardeThere’s nothing like a holiday to forget one’s urban anxieties. Little does Mirjam know she lost something essential during her stay at a rustic vacation villa – she lost her shadow! When she returns home without her darker self, Mirjam can no longer cope with everyday pressures. Before long, she quits her job and takes ill. Life becomes very shabby until one day a flamboyant young woman crashes through her door. It’s Skyggen, her lost shadow, now engaged to marry a very wealthy man. In Skyggen’s presence, Mirjam’s capacity for jealousy and duplicity resurface. Perhaps Mirjam can even win back all that is rightfully hers ...No Running, No Petting by Janine AshblessLena and Vittor work in a hotel in Malta, but they can't focus on clearing tables and making beds when what they're really both interested in is the male guests. The two of them hunt together, the perfect pair. And when they spot Rolf, a Swedish silver fox, the scene is set for a threesome and some very naughty poolside fun.Alive by Clarice CliqueThe world has ended. Somehow, through luck or fate, Mara and Daniel have survived. All they have is each other. In the harsh landscape that now surrounds them, they find comfort and solace in each other’s embrace. But then they hear a message on the radio they salvaged. There are other survivors. They begin the long arduous journey to find them, unsure how their journey will end, yet knowing they have no choice but to search for these people. In Scotland they discover a group who freely share their bodies. Mara and Daniel are forced to question how far they’ll go to fit in with the last remnants of society.The Untouchable Tabby by Lana FoxBack when Val was a student, she had a huge crush on her teacher, Tabby, and now they’re meeting up again, Val hopes to seduce her. Tabby seems more than willing at first, but eventually proves so untouchable that Val almost gives up. Thank God for her bondage-buddy, Ray, who believes a night of passion is just what Tabby needs ...Soul of Discretion by Mary BorsellinoShe’s the best concierge in town, but she learned everything she knows about discretion from her former life as a high-priced call girl. She claims she’s put her old career behind her, but when gorgeous rock star Liam Lucifer asks for an escort who won’t kiss and tell, she can’t resist the offer to come out of retirement, if only for the night.Personal Trainer by K D GracePenny Davis can’t afford to hire a personal trainer to get her in shape. Then ex-military hard man Hawk Sturgis offers her an unorthodox fitness regimen and an even more unorthodox payment plan, guaranteed to have her heating up the beach in her new bikini just in time for the summer hols.The Naughty Rich Girl by Angela GoldsberryWhen your father is very wealthy and you’re very spoiled, you can get away with just about anything – or so she thinks when she plans an afternoon shoplifting at the best department store in the local mall. But she hasn’t reckoned with the store’s sexy head of security – or his deliciously unconventional methods of dealing with naughty girls who take what isn’t theirs …

"Sacred duty, yadda yadda." — Buffy Summers Buffy the Vampire Slayer has always held an irreverent attitude toward her calling, but ultimately she understands the ramifications of her destiny and is prepared to die to protect the world from Evil. In fact, she has died. Twice. "I remember the drill. One Slayer dies, another is called." — Buffy Summers It's an ancient tradition, steeped in lore, mythology, and fateful prophecies. Slayerdom consists of a Council of Watchers, a continuum of slayers, an archive of journals, and even a handbook. "Handbook? What handbook? How come I didn't have a handbook?" — Buffy Summers But first and foremost, it begins with a girl. One girl in all the world. A Chosen One. Now, catch up on other Slayers past and present, in the second short-story collection, Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2! "[Another] Slayer? I knew this, 'I'm the only one, I'm the only one,' thing was just an attention getter." —...

9 authors9 storiesJust when you thought you were safe ... nine of Australia's favourite kids' authors (Andy Griffiths, John Marsden, R.A. Spratt, Alan Brough, Tony Wilson, Meredith Costain, Alex Ratt, Deb Abela and Tristan Bancks) are ready to get heaolling - again!???

his Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., H. Beam Piper, Clifford Simak, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: The Man Who Came Early, Poul Anderson The Cuckoo Clock, Wesley Barefoot Zen, Jerome Bixby Say Hello for Me, Frank Coggins The Guardians, Irving Cox Martians Never Die, Lucius Daniel Foundling on Venus, John and Dorothy De Coucy Vital Ingredient, Charles De Vet The Skull, Phillip K. Dick The Eye of Allah, Charles W. Diffin Tree, Spare that Woodman, Dave Dryfoos Service With a Smile, Charles L. Fontenay The Monster, Randall Garrett The Last Supper, T.D. Hamm The Passenger, Kenneth Harmon Goodbye Dead Man!, Tom W. Harris The Velvet Glove, Harry Harrison Prelude to Space, Robert W. Haseltine Tight Squeeze, Dean C. Ing The Jameson Satellite, Neal R. Jones A Matter of Importance, Murray Leinster The One and the Many, Stephen Marlowe Shepherd of the Planets, Alan Mattox Planet of Dreams, James McKimmey Stolen Brains, S.P. Meek The Hoofer, Walter M. Miller Jr. PRoblem, Alan Nourse The Return, H. Beam Piper & John G. McGuire Time and Time Again, H. Beam Piper The Day of the Boomer Dukes, Frederick Pohl The Hohokam Dig, Theodore Pratt Make Mine Homogenized, Rick Raphael Revolution, Mack Reynolds Spawn of the Comet, H. Thompson Rich Runaway, Joseph Samachson DP, Arthur Dekker Savage Pirates of the Gorm, Nat Schachner Gone Fishing, James H. Schmitz Alien Offer, Al Sevcik Forever, Robert Sheckley The Hour of Battle, Robert Sheckley The Happy Unfortunate, Robert Silverberg The Street That Wasn’t There, Clifford D. Simak & Carl Jacobi The Delegate from Venus, Henry Slesar The Big Fix, George O. Smith Vortex Blaster, E.E. “Doc” Smith The Planet of Dread, R.F. Starzl Sweet Their Blood and Sticky, Albert F. Teichner Homesick, Lyn Venable The Meteor Girl, Jack Williamson