Coming 

Summer

2026

Watch the newsletter for the cover reveal.

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

Coming in Q3 2026, Flashing Lights: Short and Weird Volume 3 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 third 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 3 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)

Adopt an Elf: Mall Santa’s Pet Shop

PG: Dystopian, Future, Holiday, Humorous, Mainstream, Sci-Fi

Electric Blue Mocktini: Alien Lightweight

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

Lunar Night: By the Light of the Moon 2

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

Mother’s Mincemeat: Home for the Holidays

G: Holiday, Humorous, Mainstream, YA

Mushroom Eaters: Faerie Mushroom Ring 2

PG: Fantasy, Folktale, Humor

Second Jump: Third Time’s the Charm

PG: Classic Sci-Fi

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