FUTURES YET UNKNOWN (anthology)

Futures Yet Unknown
Ten stories by Dave Fragments

An Anthology about the future.
A hunting expedition on an alien world.
An Alien serial murderer and a furry detective with fleas.
Murder on a alien world with altered humans.
Disturbing apocalyptic visions and monstrous dystopian societies.
A man on trial for betraying the human race to robots.
Devils, demons and ghosts come to visit.
Ambitious survivors of a plague war.
Cyborgs trying to be human once again.
Six friends in the strangest sinkhole ever discovered.
The truth about a world drowning in rain, without sun, without hope.

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Table Butte (153)

There is a man staked out on top of a desert butte with the buzzards flying around. He's been tortured by aliens and mutants but he will survive because he is a demigod and cannot die. Once again, he brings with fire to save the Earth. 

COMING BACK, an anthology from Thirteen O'Clock Press

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(161) Pumpkin Man

Tommy Turner disappeared from Hidden Valley Estates but whispered rumors remained. Rumors of three girls who cast spells, killed a man, freed a demon, and made three boys vanish. Perhaps this was nothing but an errant vision, a bad dream, a night mist. 
But, it happened, after all, on Halloween.

Published in Psychopomp #8 -- free download: click here

Demigods of the Pacific (WT-84)

Think the Sci-Fi version of Fifty Shades of Gray. Captain Tyrece Leanard has been betrothed to his high school sweetheart Estralita Delgado. He thinks that they will be making love on her runabout. However, Estralita wants to become supreme commander of the Pacific Archipelago. While they are making love, large green men with gills climb over the gunwales and kidnap Tyrece. Does he sink into the depths never to appear again or does he rise from the deep like a new Poseidon to rule the Pacific?

Published in Psychopomp #8 -- free download: click here

Beta Ares Prime (164)

In the years between the day the survey mission finished and reported that Beta Ares Prime was a near paradise for colonists, volcanos erupted, ice caps melted, rain began, and the planet turned into a stinking, insect-infested swamp. There was one way for them to dry the swamps and make the world habitable for the colonists already in flight. It involved sacrificing every crewman in a plan hiding in the quantum interstellar drives. 

Available in KILLER BEES FROM OUTER SPACE
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Come Hell or High Water Corporate Wants a Monster Movie (WT 39)

I, bastard son of Cthulhu, the greatest horror of the universe, have discovered the human deities that will replace the Old Gods, the Elder Ones, and the Ones Who Ruled by Fear, is B-Movies, Quality Management, and money. I can rule with greed, jealousy, and spite without shedding blood. Torture and death are no longer the true empire builders on Earth. Corporate life has replaced it. Contracts are the currency of torture. Even war is obsolete.

Published in THE FALL OF CTHULHU by 
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The Priest's Hole (152)

A Pub in Inverness Scotland dates back to the Domesday Book, an ancient Roman outpost. A Post Doctoral student and greedy drunk come into conflict when they discover a priest’s hole that hides a Book of Spells. Life, death, and some quite extraordinary magic occurs when the book of spells is opened. 

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The Bad, The Worse, and the Deflowered (163)

Two men meet at a costume party:
One has horns and hooves, the other is dressed as a hoplite and wants to be a farmer. They are thwarted by a third man who seems to pull all the strings. 
But the best laid plans of mice and men, satyrs and demigods, jerks and lovers, always go wrong. When goats appear, strange things happen, and someone becomes a human sacrifice. 

Published in GET ME OUT OF HERE, an anthology from Horrified Press: 
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Salvaging the Nishimi Maru (WT 120)

A year after the tsunami hit Japan, the Nishimi Maru appeared of the coast of Canada from a fogbank. Sailors in bars laugh at the descriptions of a rusted and barnacled freighter. They call it silly. They make up drunken stories about its crew. But deep in their heart of hearts, in the place kept for the absolute truth of all of men's affairs on earth, they know that this ship will come and ease their pain when they are lost at sea.

Published in LEGENDS AND LORE

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Skirmish at the Barbecue Pit (WT 100)

A horde of hoary men and their wives and children advanced, their mouths watering, lips slobbering, arms and hands outstretched...
A drug lab unleashes a deadly bacterial slime that turns people to zombies at a family picnic. How do you save yourself with only Santoku knives and spatulas.

Published in THE UNDEAD WAR
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We'll Never Do That Again (135)

About three friends who invent dragon costumes out of quantum clay for fun but the end result will be the end of mankind and the beginning of an age of dragons. After all, Darwin teaches that the stronger species wins over the weaker and humans are the weaker species.

Published in DRAGON'S BLOOD
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Under the Twinkle of Fading Stars (132)

Opening:
"It was the Halloween of 1963 and I wanted to be Peter Pan, not just in costume but also in life. Under the twinkle of fading stars and the age of sixteen, my dreams would be dashed. My brother came back from college and for a few short hours, I was a kid brother again. Gordy and I dressed as vampires and took a passel of kiddies door-to-door to scare the neighbors into giving treats, and then delivered the kids home. We ended the night on Cemetery Hill high above Union Hollow, our small Appalachian town."

Published in Halloween Shrieks, an anthology from Thirteen O'Clock Press
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The Zombie Blackmailers of Panocadia Three (WT 69)

A short remembrance of things past, 
a nostalgia of lost childhood, in a completely 
and utterly weird, Zombified sort of way.

Published in VOICES FROM A COMA - Issue 2
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A Late Dinner (WT 118)

How did magic gain entry to the scientific world?
A tale of familial revenge.


Published in LAST NIGHT, an Anthology from Thirteen O'Clock Press
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His Master's Voice (156)

In an abandoned warehouse, detectives find the latest victim of a serial kill and a rookie goes underground to find the killer in a world of S&M, rubber, and dog-boys. 

Quote: “The killer tags them just like they were pets. We think they might be runaways, street people, homeless or failed at life in some way. These are the itinerant workers, waiters in cheap dives, jitney drivers, hustlers. This gig must seem like heaven, playacting in costume, decent food,” Arborghast said. A Tech held a veterinary scanner up against the deceased man’s shoulder. It registered the number of a dog license. He tapped the screen and the name “Buddy” and a street address appeared. 

From "His Master's Voice" page 178.

Available in NEON & BLOOD, an anthology
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Dogs At Midnight (WT 149)

No one came to this dark, rundown house, not Trick-or-Treaters or adventure-seeking boys with eggs and soap, not birds, or cats. No lights beckon through its wavy windows. A cursed man lives here and Death visits on Halloween.

This story was originally published online at THE TINY GLOBULE in 2008 and that website is now defunct. 

Reprinted in BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, an anthology from Thirteen O'Clock Press. 
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Have Some Madiera My Dear (125)

Two men responsible for screening artifacts from alien archeological digs discover that certain artifacts will not trigger their alarms and this day, their survival and the survival of the human race depend on Madeira and Cognac. It's an Old Gods and Cthulhu adventure of strange and bizarre proportions.

Published in the anthology: IN VINO VERITAS
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Iron City Sasquatch (WT 122)

One hundred years in the future when governments seek to renew old neighborhoods in a newfound gentrification, alien immigrants bring alien drugs. But these drugs are illegal on all civilized worlds and the interplanetary council has no choice but to send in bounty hunters to bring the alien drug dealer to justice.

Published in AN URBAN NIGHTMARE
an anthology from Thirteen Press

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The Ghost at Four Bells (143)

A sailor in 2013 is haunted by the ghostly survivor of a fishing boat lost during the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Sundra Straights between Java and Sumatra. When the ghost demands satisfaction for the loss of his family, another crew and their ship is in peril and the ghost must be put to rest. 

Published in: Whispers from the Past - Fright and Fear, an anthology edited by S.R. Generette.
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The Day the Meth Lab Exploded (WT 113)

I'm in a cheap motel in Secaucus with two near-naked, drug-addicted ass-hats. That sounds like a throw away line from a cheap musical. The Braniac would demand funky jazz like--I’m in a cheap motel with two half naked drug addicts in Secaucus--with a high note on Secaucus. The ass-hats stare. I'm giddy from entering multiple time portals. My targets are smoking pot on a fire escape next to a room filled with ether. They will soon to be suitable for pauper's graves. 

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Published by Lulu in PORTALS - an anthology of Portals, passageways, doors into infinity and who knows what else... the mere thought of escaping into something unknown or being taken into it without your knowledge or will to go there, surely that's one of the scariest things that can happen to you.
So, let the clever Thirteen O'clock authors loose with a topic like Portals and the result is a collection of vastly different stories exploring the theme in many different ways. (170 pages)

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