Coming 

Winter

2025

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Another full menu of speculative fiction: aliens, ghosts, portals, humor, suspense, and serious classic sci-fi.

Coming in Q4 2025, Flashing Lights: Short and Weird Volume 2 is a collection of twelve flash fiction and short stories in several subgenres of speculative fiction. The collection includes aliens, ghosts, and mythical creatures, portals through time and space, plenty of humor, a bit of suspense, and some serious classic sci-fi.

This second book in the Flashing Lights: Short and Weird series takes you on a mission to explore the breadth of speculative short fiction. Each story is preceded by a content rating (G, PG, PG-13) and its genre tags. And each is followed by an About section, describing the story’s prompt, inspiration, homages, and the occasional Easter egg.

You can use the index by story type and genre to jump to the stories that interest you most, but you are safe exploring from beginning to end. You may discover a genre you didn’t know you liked.

Flashing Lights: Short and Weird Volume 2 will be available as an eBook, paperback, and audiobook. The eBook will also be available on Kindle Unlimited.

If you haven’t seen Volume 1 yet, check it out here.

Sample Stories (planned and more)

Areforming Earth: Storm of Stones

PG: Aliens, Sci-Fi

Collecting Dust: Interstellar Vacuum

PG: Aliens, Sci-Fi

Eight Seconds Till Christmas: Rising to the Occasion

PG: Future, Holiday, Humor, Robots, Sci-Fi

Hornworm Farmers: A Growing Concern

PG: Americana, Coming of Age, Family, Historical, Humorous, Mystery, Sci-Fi

First Jump: Leap of Faith

PG: Classic Sci-Fi, Space Opera

Hanging On: Life Goes On

PG: Ghosts, Mainstream, Mystery

Indelible: Mark of a Broken Heart

PG: Coming of Age, Dystopian, Future, Sci-Fi, YA

Lonely Cannoli: An Alien in the Family

PG: Aliens, Humorous, Mainstream, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Lunar Eve: By the Light of the Moon 1

PG: Alien, Coming of Age, Historical, Mystery, Sci-Fi, YA

Rainbow Rescue: Fractured Reflection

PG: Mainstream, Portal, Sci-Fi, YA

Woodland Harvest: Faerie Mushroom Ring 1

PG: Fantasy, Folktale, Humor

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