Flashing Lights: Short and Weird Volume 3

Coming

Summer

2028

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

Coming in Q3 2028, 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.

Story Slate 95% 95%
Stories Plotted 77% 77%
Stories Written 23% 23%
Bonus Content 80% 80%
Collection Editing 20% 20%
Collection Layout 5% 5%
Art and Cover 10% 10%
Print Distribution 0% 0%
Audiobook 5% 5%

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.

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Planned Stories (and more)

Adopt an Elf: Mall Santa’s Pet Shop

Series: 12 Tales of Christmas 5

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

Carcassonne Chaos: Creature at the Castle

Series: Solo Duo RPG Fiction 2

PG-13: Action, Aliens, Alternate History, Horror, LitRPG, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Electric Blue Mocktini: Alien Lightweight

Series: Alien in the Family 3

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

First Jump: Leap of Faith

Series: Hop, Skip, and a Jump 1

PG: Action, Frontier, Future, Sci-Fi

Lunar Light

Series: By the Light of the Moon 2

PG: Aliens, Alternate History, Coming of Age, Mystery, Sci-Fi, YA

Lunar Rise

Series: By the Light of the Moon 1

PG: Aliens, Alternate History, Coming of Age, Mystery, Sci-Fi, YA

Mushroom Eaters: An Eye for Fungi

Series: Faerie Mushroom Ring 2

PG: Fantasy, Folktale, Humor

Parasite Platoon

Series: Biowars 1

PG-13: Action, Aliens, Frontier, Future, Military, Sci-Fi

Rainbow Quest: Back to the Beginning

Series: Rainbow Catch and Release 3

G: Americana, Coming of Age, Family, Mainstream, Portal, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, YA

Red Sky Day: Moon at Noon

Series: Colonial Contest, Mars 1.5

PG: Coming of Age, Family/Generational, Frontier, Funture, Sci-Fi, YA

Return to Redux: Desperata Actio

Series: Redux Time Travel 1.5

PG: Adventure, Historical, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Suspense, Time Travel

Second Jump: Third Time’s the Charm

Series: Hop, Skip, and a Jump 2