First Stories

A proud and prudish Catholic mom from the suburbs of Pennsylvania, Shawna Lynn McDonnell volunteers to act as a chaperone on the first field trip at her son's new school. But what Shawna doesn't realize is that, on this field trip, she will be the one getting an education; an education in what it means to have power and who, in the new and hellish landscape in which she finds herself, actually has it and whose is just an illusion.

A hitchhiker walking down a loney highway makes a bad decision (or is it?)

Alien parasites with a hive mind take over the bodies of humans. The Hive spreads by sexual transmission.

It was something Kaylie had always wanted to do. She was going to the Riding Academy and learning how to actually ride a horse. Her mom was the best mom in the world for buying her the lessons.