Coming 

Q1 2027

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

Coming in Q1 2027, 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. In Volume 2, the stories get longer and more involved than in Volume 1.

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.

Planned Stories: Final Slate

Eight Seconds Till Christmas: Rising to the Occasion

Series: 12 Tales of Christmas 3

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

Eve of Redux: Ab Incunabulis

Series: Redux Time Travel 0.5

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

Hornworm Farmers: A Growing Concern

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

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

Series: Alien in the Family 2

PG: Action, Aliens, Historical, Humorous, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Longevity: A Bright Future

PG: Dystopian, Family, Future, Mainstream, Sci-Fi

Rainbow Rescue: Fractured Reflection

Series: Rainbow Catch and Release 2

PG: Mainstream, Portal, Sci-Fi, YA

Red Sky Morning: Mars at Dawn

Series: Colonial Contest, Mars 0.5

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

Tunnel Vision: No Light at the End

PG-13: Horror, Midlife, Mystery, Paranormal, Satire, Suspense

Weird Wyoming: Freaky Frontier

Series: Solo Duo RPG Fiction 1

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

Woodland Harvest: The Mushroom Troop

Series: Faerie Mushroom Ring 1

PG: Fantasy, Folktale, Humor

Bonus: Six Six-Word Stories

Yep, stories in only six words.

Secret Bonus

It wouldn’t be a secret if I told you what it is.

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