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Wondering what the Tiny House movement is all about? Perhaps you already know and have seen the shows. Yet, you want to know more. Is living tiny really something you can do? Can you face the challenges? Is it as affordable as it sounds?

In this science fiction short story, a young man living in a totalitarian farming community seeks a better life in a fabled city beneath the ground.

In this short metaphysical science fiction story, a man of present-day Earth commits suicide, only to awaken on a distant planet two million years in the future. 

In a new Gold Rush out on the galactic rim, men are prospecting for Earth-like worlds to meet the demand of an aggressively expanding galactic civilization. They are the Rim Hunters, and these are their stories. Tomon Ralph, a lonely prospector, is hot on the trail of a Class-L planet and a big payday when he diverts to investigate the possible crash site of a long-missing colony ship. What he finds could be the most precious discovery he has ever made....

In this episode, Bucky Jupiter locks horns with a mad scientist conducting research into the origins of life.

In a new Gold Rush out on the galactic rim, men are prospecting for Earth-like worlds to meet the demand of an aggressively expanding galactic civilization. They are the Rim Hunters, and these are their stories. Rim hunter and pirate Owen Phelps is sent to remove the natives from a planet to make way for colonists. What he discovers could alter the balance of power in the galaxy. 

In a vacuum-tubed retro future where the 1940s live on and Einstein never lived, Bucky Jupiter of the Space Patrol prowls the asteroid belt in his aether-powered ramjet, battling scurvy space pirates and any other ne'er-do-wells who dare to make life hard for the average citizen of the spaceways.

An abandoned Victorian mansion deep in the woods, riddled with hidden passageways to other dimensions. A disintegrated spirit that haunts it. A defeated, weary vagabond who takes refuge there. Together, maybe they can find peace.

Samuel Walker is a painfully shy, bumblingly inept college student who always seems to have the worst luck at everything. Tasma Thompson is a gorgeous, carefree young woman who catches Samuel's eye. Unfortunately, she's repulsed by him. They're thrown together on a flight to Phoenix, but before they can exchange much more than names, the plane crashes in a terrorist attack and everyone on board dies. Or do they?

Thirteen hundred years ago the world was invaded by demons from beyond the Veil of Night. Mankind was nearly wiped out before managing to drive the demons back into the netherworld. Now, a king's evil chancellor schemes to reopen the Veil and once again unleash the demons. The world's only hope of salvation is an insane boy, himself the descendant of demonic/human hybrids, and the newborn baby he's kidnapped.

Is there redemption for the Devil? A Screwtape Letters for the modern era, the audiobook Apocalyptus Interruptus is a black comedy that explores the nature of evil and forgiveness, set in a world that's teetering on the brink of the apocalypse when Satan decides to call the whole thing off so he can repent and seek God's forgiveness.

When Scruffy the dog has a premonition that his master will die at work that day, he escapes the house to mount a valiant rescue attempt. Instead, he becomes embroiled in a bitter war between the city's strays, led by the vicious Rottweiler, Fang, and the dog pound, which is conducting secret military experiments on the strays. But Scruffy will not be sidetracked. Determined to save his beloved master, he enlists the aid of a little crippled girl who has the ability to talk to animals.

When her mother's head is pulped to mush by a coin carelessly dropped from higher up in the mega-city, sixteen-year-old Jerica makes a difficult trek up through a miles-high skyscraper, determined to find out who dropped the coin and avenge her mother

Set in a world just around the corner from our own, where Santa Claus really exists and uses your neighbors to keep track of your deeds, Billy Barnaby's Twisted Christmas is a sometimes dark but ultimately uplifting story of how a truly good heart can redeem even the most heartless evil. When teenager Billy Barnaby wins a contest to accompany Santa Claus on his Christmas deliveries, he's delighted at the opportunity to try to turn Santa from his Big Brother-like ways.

Jed, a big city man, is weary of the endless rush of civilization. Weaned on fabulous tales of the Great Outdoors told to him by his long-dead grandmother, he longs for the outside, but knows he'll never find it. So he trudges despondently through his pointless existence, until one day, he happens upon a document that points the way to a door that leads to another world - of green hills and vast natural countrysides.

In the 13th century, Earth is dangerously overcrowded. To reduce the population, people are chosen by lottery and shipped off to the stars to colonize other solar systems. Shiploads of colonists are dropped off on unexplored worlds and left to their own devices. Jorge Leever and Meesha Androva are the only survivors of one such failed attempt to colonize a distant planet. For 20 years, they've been alone, unable to communicate with Earth. Now, another cargo ship arrives....

Long ago, the One True God abandoned the world. Now, in His absence, His ancient nemesis has begun a final campaign to plunge the world into eternal darkness. The only hope of salvation lies with two unlikely heroes. Beamer the falliwagn is perfectly content living his tranquil life tucked away in his underground burrow in the banks of the Rapid River. But when the River floods and destroys his home, he is forced into the wide world with only his precious Enchanted Sword and his faithful companion, Sniff.

In the grand tradition of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, this 18,000-word novella begins the chronicles of Ko Yingh Varuk, a mighty northern barbarian who leaves his clan and ventures into the civilized lands to the south. Along the way, he encounters evil spirits, fierce soldiers, beleaguered miners, and a princess who is determined to tame him in her bed.

Eleven short stories by Scott Reeves, a mixture of epic and contemporary fantasy, including: "Washi in the Underworld" - When his beloved uncle dies, a boy climbs into the coffin and is buried alongside him, intending to follow his uncle into the underworld when the Lord of the Underworld comes to take his uncle's body from the coffin... And many more!

It's all out civil war in the suburbs! When avid talk radio show listener and devout conservative Marty Johnson becomes fed up with liberal policies, he and his wife decide to take out their frustrations by declaring war on the quintessential liberal family that lives next door, the Kaufmans. The ensuing war of ideologies soon threatens to tear both families apart. This satirical novella features cameos by Sean Hannity and Jon Stewart.