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In the near future scientists detect an asteroid that is on a collision course with the earth and if it strikes it will have an apocalyptic effect on the world that will likely wipe out all or nearly all of the life on the planet. With only a few months to put together a team to intercept and destroy the asteroid scientists at NASA are working against a ticking clock to save humanity. However in this modern day world where conspiracy theory takes precedence over fact and where we live in a reality TV show world, there are large numbers of people who think that the asteroid isn't real and that it's all a plot by the government to restrict people's freedom. In this world of paranoia and distrust of the mainstream, a young up-and-coming documentary filmmaker named Henry Wong sees this as opportunity for a new reality show, where he will interview the astronauts to reassure the American public that the world is in good hands and that they will be capable of stopping the asteroid and saving the world by showcasing the lives of the astronauts. But in this world of paranoia and conspiracy theory will making a reality show out of the quest to stop the end of the world help the situation or just add fuel to the fire of the conspiracy theorists? An asteroid apocalypse novella unlike others for the contemporary world, that is so fearful and divided and polarized it asks the question, if the world was going to end would people even believe it? And if people do believe it will our own fear of what is to come destroy us even more quickly than the asteroid ever would?

One night in July 2023 the author of this novella had trouble sleeping and found themselves in a state of trance where they kept recalling numerous past life memories. I then decided to turn this into a novella, making each memory its own short little chapter, little vignettes. This novella is essentially a series of fragmented memories from numerous different past lives spanning the entire history of the world, from places as exotic as ancient Rome, China, Mongolia, Ehypt, Africa, the Middle Ages, the Ice Age, Native American lives as well as more contemporary times that give an overview about how past life memories work, going back and forth between one life to another, showing the good, the bad the ugly, the simple the mundane and the profound all in one. It essentially amounts to a brief spiritual autobiography showing the development of one soul over the course of several thousand years in fairly random order that give an overview of development of one soul over the course of human history.

Humanity has had its first contact with a race of extraterrestrials who have now settled on earth and after a long stretch of time in quarantine are now going to be allowed to start integrating into human society. With only a few thousand of them on the planet, and with their home world being thousands of years away, they are an extreme minority on earth. To compound the problems of integration the odor that these extraterrestrials, 90% of whom are female, emit causes sexual frenzy in human men, making integration difficult and leading to fear and prejudice towards the extraterrestrial visitors. As a result of this many of the aliens who have a much more open attitude towards human sexuality that is radically different from ours, end up becoming prostitutes. When some of these prostitutes are murdered, the first murder of extraterrestrials, the detectives investigating it will find themselves confronted by all of their own mixed feelings towards extraterrestrials and their own sexuality in the process.

Abraham was an elderly man who fled from America to escape the Nazis in 1933. Now in 1944 his grandson Hansel who is still left behind in Berlin hiding from the Nazis manages to sneak out of the country and come to America so that he can live with his grandfather. But as an old man who is accustomed to drinking, gambling and womanizing he is not used to having a 12-year-old boy with him, and will find it a difficult adaption. As the grandfather and his grandson live together they learn that they will have to adapt to each other's personalities and also deal together with the legacy and the knowledge of the Holocaust as it is revealed to the world, bringing up issues of sexuality, faith, prejudice and discrimination.

When Alice's friends asked her to try a new untested drug that was making its way around the streets she was initially hesitant but decides to give in. The next day however after she wakes up from doing the drug she finds a weird side effect where it seems like she is seeing dead bodies on the floor wherever she happens to be going that nobody else sees. She also seems to look as though she is decomposing and that other people are decomposing and becoming zombies, but she is the only one seeing this, and on top of that now she is also starting to feel strange new cravings such as the craving for human flesh. Is Alice losing her mind and hallucinating as a result of this new drug or is she actually becoming a zombie and it is a premonition that there is going to be a zombie apocalypse? Find out in this exciting new novella!

A novella told in flashback about the beginning of the vampire apocalypse. Malcolm was a police officer who was working in his career at a time when a series of killings was attributed to vampires. At first it seems like an unlikely proposition, but as time goes on it becomes increasingly obvious that vampires are real and that they are growing in number as a pandemic starts decimating the human race. Now jumping forward one year later vampires have taken over the earth and Malcolm is perhaps the last human being on the planet who spends his days going around killing vampires while they sleep and being guided by passages from his Bible. But in a world where vampires are the majority and he is the only human who is the real monster in this world, them or him? And if there is a God is God testing him?This and four bonus stories about the vampire apocalypse.

It was 1961 at the beginning of the space race where the Americans and the Soviet Union were in a race to see who could conquer space first. In order to pave the way for human explorers into space both countries started sending chimpanzees into outer space as a way of exploring but they found something very strange occurred, when the chimpanzees came back they were inhabited by an alien intelligence that has rendered them capable of speech and who intends to use their newfound bodies as a way of trying to conquer the entire planet but finding that there are many setbacks ahead in spite of the fact that humanity's entire scientific endeavors have reduced themselves to being a Dick measuring contest. Can the world be saved from these invading chimpanzeenauts in this sci-fi comedy?

Chad was a drug addict who wanted to get his life together and get off drugs but wanted to go on a special summer road trip around the country where he would say goodbye to drugs forever. Before going on his road trip however his drug dealer offers him a new untested drug called Demonic that he says will be the ultimate way of saying goodbye to drugs. When Chad starts doing the drugs he finds that the main effect of the drugs is he starts seeing a horny flatulent demon named Beelzebub that nobody else can see. But as he starts sharing his drugs with other people during his trip around the country more people are seeing Beelzebub and he is urging them to give into their darkest and most twisted urges and fantasies.

Alice was a bright young girl with a promising future in front of her as an aspiring future Supreme Court justice. But then on October 31, 2000 she is in a car accident and finds herself in a coma. 20 years later to the day on October 31, 2020 she wakes up to a very different and changed world. At first thought to have been suffering brain damage as a result of her coma, she begins relating to her doctors and family how during those 20 years she was fully conscious and experiencing an alternate timeline where most of the disasters of the last 20 years had not taken place, but all the while having flashbacks about this reality that she couldn't have known otherwise. And not only that she claims that there are other beings that are watching all realities, a dark force that feeds on fear, hatred and confusion that is trying to conquer all realities, and she is worried that if we don't do something to stop it it will consume this reality as well. This and seven other stories about how the strangeness and craziness of the last 20 years, socially and politically, have led to sort of a warped reality that we all now seem to inhabit.

Walter was a man who seemingly had everything, a self-made millionaire, unconcerned with the past and always looking towards the future. But then one day on the hundredth anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre he learns about a personal family connection to one of the worst race riots in history that burned black Wall Street to the ground. After getting drunk one night he stumbles around and passes out only to wake up and find that he is now in the year 1921, and that one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history is only a few days away. Was he sent back in time to prevent it, and if so how will he be able to do that, especially seeing as he is a man out of his own time and can only vaguely remember the details that are necessary in a race against time to prevent one of the greatest disasters in American history.

Martin was a guy with nothing going for him. After his rich girlfriend breaks up with him, in despair and needing money, he decides to sign up for a military experiment to turn him invisible, and much to his surprise it works! Unfortunately the government wants to cover him up as a classified military secret but he has no desire to be a guinea pig, so he escapes from the military facility where he is imprisoned. Wondering what he is going to do he finds his situation changes when it seems that a virus is killing all of the men in the world except for him, possibly making him the last man on earth, and the same formula that has rendered him invisible might be the key to vaccinating all of the surviving men against human extinction, meaning that now the weight of the world and the survival of the human race may very well be dependent on him. But what's going to happen if his invisibility wears off, or for that matter what if it doesn't?

A story of three families, one in Texas, one in Louisiana, and one in Florida, all connected to each other as they deal with a category five hurricane of Katrina proportions that leaves the entire Gulf region as a disaster zone. To compound the problem with millions of Americans forced into refugee centers in the middle of a surge in the Covid pandemic risks making one disaster an even greater catastrophe. To add to the tension all of the intergenerational conflict between different family members over politics, religion and personal values will all come to a head as they are stuck together trying to survive this horrible disaster.

Set in a dystopian alternate history version of America where Roe V Wade had the opposite outcome and never resulted in rights for abortion, instead being known as Roe's Folly, a decision that eventually led to a national right to life amendment that outlawed all forms of abortion and contraception as murder, and created a police state to enforce them, and where pro-choice protesters are viewed as potential terrorists.In this alternate America suffering from the effects of tremendous crime, poverty and overpopulation with over 400 million citizens, a young girl named Destiny finds herself pregnant with an unwanted pregnancy which will lead to a legal battle before the Supreme Court that could alter the history of the nation in a chilling cautionary tale, that in light of the recent overturning of Roe V Wade could be showing us a vision of not so much an alternate history, but a possible dystopian future.This and 18 other dystopian tales involving overpopulation, theocracies, pregnancy monitoring chips, abortion bounty hunters, illegal pregnancies and other methods about about how control of women's reproductive freedoms can result in totalitarian misogynistic societies.

Four friends working on a scientific research project to travel to parallel timelines to hopefully save a world dying from overpopulation and environmental destruction, foolishly decide to go it alone and explore unknown timelines and find themselves on a parallel world where it seems that the Confederacy had won the Civil War but since collapsed. They soon learn that the reason why was because the entire planet was overrun with bloodthirsty vampires. Now they must find some way to get their interdimensional travel capsule back in order to get back to our world, if they can survive the vampires first. This and nine other stories combining vampires, pandemics and the apocalypse.

What do Anna, a spoiled rich racist suffragette and party girl from the 1920s; Angela, a black radical woman's liberationist from the 1970s; Maria, a transphobic Hispanic woman during the Covid pandemic and future climate change disasters, and Kylie; a biologically immortal transgender Asian woman in a trans-humanist future, all have in common? They are one person over the course of four incarnations, all psychically connected to each other across time and evolving with each subsequent incarnation. A feminist speculative novel on life after death taking us from the time of women's suffrage, to the women's liberation movement of the 1970s, to our contemporary world and then into a far future showing a female world revolution and a transcendent humanity over the course of four incarnations of the same woman as she evolves over different periods of women's history to gain a greater understanding of herself, and what it means to be a woman and a human in all of these different times in history, and will ultimately experience the final destiny of humanity among the stars.

Set in a near future dystopian world where the existence of vampires has been proven. Vampires are now the new scapegoated minority to blame all of society's problems on, with people afraid to go out at night for fear of the slight possibility of running into a vampire. But as the vampire population grows and people's paranoia about the vampire menace begins to grow, the people in power want to exploit this fear for political gain. In this world we meet Alex, a 200-year-old immortal vampire in a world where most vampires are new and young, and a bunch of his young vampire hoodlums who go around causing chaos, rape, murder and mayhem. However after Alex is apprehended as a dangerous vampire he will be forced to undergo the Van Helsing method, a form of brainwashing and conditioning that will render him incapable of feeding on people and drinking their blood, and also make him vulnerable to all of his many enemies of the past in this vampire-based parody of A Clockwork Orange.

Larry had just found the love of his life only to discover immediately afterward that he is terminally ill with cancer. Not wanting to die and to leave the love of his life, he decides to have himself cryogenically frozen after death in the vague hope that maybe someday he would live again and be with his young wife once more. After passing away on March 24, 2024, Larry's hopes turn out to be realized when a wealthy benefactor in the future has him revived from the dead in the year 2084, a world suffering from overpopulation, climate change and massive inequality, and where the majority of the population have retreated into simulated reality. But as Larry becomes the first person to ever be successfully resurrected from the dead he could provide hope to a world that death is not the end, and that perhaps everybody could potentially live forever, but would that be the best thing for a world that is already suffering from overpopulation far beyond what is capable of supporting, and will his resurrection from the dead prove to be permanent or just a brief return before once more returning to the world of the dead?

It was just an ordinary day when 136 alien spacecraft suddenly descended on the cities of the world making no attempt to communicate with mankind. Scientists were sent in to investigate and the ships let them inside before taking off with them still inside. Now 50 years later the ships have returned to a world that is dying from environmental catastrophes, and solving the mystery of where the spacecraft have been, and where their passengers have been unaged all that time, could be the key to solving the mystery of whether we are alone in the universe, and possibly also the key to saving our own species and planet.

Tom was just an ordinary guy living a mundane life until one day he starts experiencing headaches and soon finds that he has the mysterious ability to read people's thoughts. Things only get weirder when he starts hearing a voice talking to him inside his head claiming that he is his brain tumor and he wants to use his telepathic abilities to help Tom improve his life, particularly his sex life, but can Tom really improve his life with the help of his talking brain tumor when the same tumor is slowly killing him?

Justin was getting tired of his life living in Los Angeles and often feared that one day it would be destroyed in a large earthquake, the big one so to speak. Deciding to go camping with his friend to take his mind off of the stress of living in the city he has an encounter with a wolf that bites him and soon finds himself experiencing unusual changes. Then on a subsequent camping trip he realizes that these changes are because he is now a werewolf, and while he was away camping the big one finally hit, and now Justin and his friends have to navigate a post apocalyptic California to try and find their friends and family while dealing with the fact that he is now a werewolf.