Alice Sabo

While a wildfire threatens High Meadow, an uninvited guest sows seeds of dissent. The president arrives at High Meadow with his entourage of bureaucrats and faux-military. Tillie and Angus don’t have time for any distractions as a massive wildfire bears down on their settlement. It will take more than hard work and good intentions to get them through this catastrophe. Martin is leery about sending all of his men to aid those in the path of the fire thereby leaving their borders unprotected. They are most vulnerable in their commitment to help others. Wisp and Nick work the fire lines seeking out people fleeing the raging flames. Only Wisp can find those lost in the heavy smoke, risking his life to bring them to safety. Behind their backs, certain people are questioning every decision. At a time when they most need to work together, the outsiders are creating divisiveness.

Lessons Learned

In the near future, a virus has whittled down the human race. The remaining population struggles to survive in a world ravaged by extreme weather. A reticent government provides food, vaccines and keeps the ultra-fast trains running. Cities are empty, farms deserted, factories abandoned. The world is running on a skeleton crew. Nick lives at High Meadow med center. The people there stay hopeful as they work toward self-sufficiency. He counts survivors for Angus’s research. He wants his life to stay as normal as possible in a world he barely understands. Wisp is a fugitive biobot. He lives off the land, moving from town to town, hiding his extrasensory skills. He is a Finder and will accept the right kind of job. Silence and subterfuge keep him alive. Lily is a young girl with long brown hair and eyes the color of ripe cherries. She is searching for her brother. They were separated while fleeing armed men. She is part of something that started before her birth.

Lethal Seasons

As starving, travel weary people overrun High Meadow, Tillie and Angus must do a delicate dance to keep the doors open. Angus has set the boundaries for their new territory and Martin is tasked with keeping it safe. Tillie struggles to get everyone fed while keeping an eye on the stores for winter. Wisp helps where he can, vetting the newcomers and finding stragglers, but not every person comes under his scrutiny. He has to learn new skills to deal with the increasing mental pressure of the desperate arrivals. The refugees seem to be only concerned with food and shelter, but a handful of them might be working toward malicious aims. After a dangerous confrontation, Nick warns Angus that the biobots at High Meadow need more security. Within the flood of people, not all are who they seem to be. The gentle people of High Meadow need to prepare for war or lose what they cherish most.

Gleanings

Murder, suicide and a ghost from the Civil War. Asher’s stuck in a strange old hotel in the middle of a cornfield in Kansas. He’s trapped on a retreat with the cast of his latest movie. There had been some bad feelings and worse behavior that disrupted the filming. To fix that, the studio sent them all out to the cornfield until they learn to get along. Then an actress goes missing starting a cascade of events that has Asher up to his neck in lies, deceit and bad coffee. When vultures start circling that cornfield, Asher knows that there’s a body in there. But it’s not who he expected. Things get more complicated when a new guest checks into the hotel. She’s got ties to the cornfield that might turn lethal for them all.

Blood Relations

While High Meadow is dealing with troublemakers and raiders, Wisp follows an invisible trail across the country to rescue Nick. What had started as a simple trip turns into an undercover operation for Nick, leaving Wisp to return to High Meadow on his own with a van full of children. In the search for answers, Nick learns that the problems are more complex than he imagined. The country's minimal infrastructure is teetering on the brink of collapse. And the people in charge are not at all what he'd hoped. Angus predicts that the high mortality rate from the last round of flu could cause the disintegration of smaller settlements putting people on the road. With the train stations closed, there will be no food or shelter for these refugees, leaving them victim to marauders and starvation. As Tillie scrambles to plan for a winter without train food, the influx of refugees is eating up precious supplies. The world is changing again and they must adapt or die.

Scattered Seeds

While High Meadow is dealing with troublemakers and raiders, Wisp follows an invisible trail across the country to rescue Nick. What had started as a simple trip turns into an undercover operation for Nick, leaving Wisp to return to High Meadow on his own with a van full of children. In the search for answers, Nick learns that the problems are more complex than he imagined. The country’s minimal infrastructure is teetering on the brink of collapse. And the people in charge are not at all what he’d hoped. Angus predicts that the high mortality rate from the last round of flu could cause the disintegration of smaller settlements putting people on the road. With the train stations closed, there will be no food or shelter for these refugees, leaving them victim to marauders and starvation. As Tillie scrambles to plan for a winter without train food, the influx of refugees is eating up precious supplies. The world is changing again and they must adapt or die.

The stability of the Survivor’s Alliance is still fragile. They made it through the winter, but now it’s flu season. Every year the virus changes just a little. Tillie and Angus are trying to prepare for every scenario, even the possibility that they will be the first to go. Nick is working to bridge the gap in supplies until the spring crops come in. Wisp and Bridget are preparing for the birth of their child. But there are changes coming that no one expected.

Desperate Measures

Winter arrives early and with it dangerous complications for Willow and Micah. A lethal storm sweeps in without warning. When Micah goes missing, Willow has to reach out for help from unexpected sources. As the snow piles up, Bear fears the worst, but there are some bright surprises on the horizon that no one saw coming.

Micah's Ordeal

Miller Watkins was an FBI agent until he met the Darkness face to face and failed. Now he works for Oleander fighting the Darkness, however he can, to protect the city he loves. With the help of some supernatural creatures, a couple of dream-sibyls, an invisible housekeeper and his own considerable powers, he solves the problems of the arcane community. Or tries his best. When a teenage girl goes missing, he must unravel a tangle of coincidences that dog his investigation at every step. Something larger is at stake than a simple missing person, and he must solve that riddle before he can move forward. The ever-present Darkness is growing, and Miller must use every skill, strategy and artifact that he can come up with to keep it at bay... ...or die trying.

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The Survivor’s Alliance is expanding. The big Circuit wagons wind through the isolated villages and towns bringing news and goods, but storms, raiders and wild animals are only a few of the trials as Willow guides her crew through a harrowing journey. Things never go as planned. Their journeys will take some unexpected twists culminating in the biggest surprise of all.

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High Barrens Flint thought that life on the frontier, with six brothers, would prepare her for anything. Until she met a monster in need. Her strictly planned path took a wild detour of wizards and magic showing her a very different future than she had imagined. Greenvale For as far back as he could remember, Chance had been able to feel wrongness in the world. With that also came the ability to sense rightness, but that didn’t mean he could always fix it. And sometimes that knowing got him into a lot of trouble. When monsters and magic invade his simple life, Chance has to learn how to use his inborn abilities to keep safe those he cares about the most. Shattered Landing Sylvie is the soul seeker for a small village on an island in the Great Sea making sure that all of the fishermen make it back home regardless of storms or accidents. When a stranger arrives in a boat propelled by magic, her life is upended. The barriers between worlds are thinning and they need her skills to stop a flood of lethal creatures from invading her world.

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Willow has a whole town to manage now, but nothing is going to plan. Washburn ran the town with an iron fist and an appetite for cruelty. People are fearful and evasive. She has to prove that with her people in charge the residents won’t be seeing more of the same. Micah warns her to be patient while Jake tries to establish the animal hospital, and Jane sets up care for the people. But damaging storms, vindictive raiders and mutant animals are going to test her more deeply than ever before.

Willow's Town

FACADE Aliens, telepathy and political intrigue. A human spy and his horned, alien partner encounter a new species that's been incognito for centuries. They discover a level of psi-skills that borders on magic and endangers the people they love. CHARADE As Elaan learns about who she is and what her species can do, the galactic government pressures her for more information on their enemy. Hunter and Trash want to reconnoiter the enemy’s territory, but they have to find it first. Hunter’s past endangers them all when a woman he’s never met makes revelations about his origins. DILEMMA Tensions rise as Elaan begins a delicate dance between the UCFS’s demands and her people’s needs. An unexpected gift of knowledge leaves her reeling. Hunter has to deal with the new revelations about his origins, the trial and the resulting repercussions, all the while working to keep his family safe. Trash gets a chance to rescue a brother in need and add him to the Embassy’s staff. More Iguacans flood into the Embassy seeking sanctuary. More unusual gifts are discovered. And with every secret learned, Elaan uncovers facts she’d rather stay buried.

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A Multi-Author Anthology of Short Stories! Nineteen stories and hundreds of pages of apocalyptic fiction. This is Volume 6. Look for other books in series for more great reading! When the world falls apart, when civilization collapses, when life as we know it ends, our greatest terrors becomes real. Perhaps it's nuclear war with its poisonous radiation, hideous plagues or chemical contamination, rogue artificial intelligences controlling killer robots, or zombies that turn our friends and neighbors into inhuman monsters. What can the common man or woman do in the face of apocalyptic fears? The Apocalyptic Fears Series gives you collections of bestselling, award-winning or just plain exciting stories by some of the best independent authors of today. Shelter in Place by Saul Tanpepper A Loss of Standards by Alice Sabo Working by Committee by Steve Stroble Going Gray by Brian Spangler The Itch by Greg Dragon Tunnel by J. Thorn All the Dead Arising by Jamie Campbell Journey to Rehnor: The Departure by J. Naomi Ay The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by T.M. Bilderback The Zombie Pestilence by Randall J. Morris The Life Lottery by David Estes The Shattered Stones of Fate by David Estes The Runaway by David Estes Contagion by Joseph J. Bailey The Bloody Ballad of Isaac Byler by J.V. Roberts Station 331 by Darcy Coates The Cloudy Skulls by Eva Harper After the End by Gibson Morales Antidote Anecdote by Chris Northern Reaper's Run by David VanDyke

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As Elaan learns about who and what her species can do, the galactic government pressures her for more information on the enemy that they are hiding from. In the chaos of the brand new Iguacan embassy, Elaan must decide which secrets are too dangerous to share. Her people have abilities far beyond what they show to the galaxy. Somewhere beyond the Four Rings lies the territory of the Surentur. Hunter and Trash want to investigate, but they have to find it first. To protect the Iguacans, they need a better understanding of the military might of their age-old enemy. Hunter’s past endangers them all when a woman he’s never met makes revelations about his origins. Old ghosts rise up to distract him at a time when he most needs to focus.

Charade

Tensions rise as Elaan begins a delicate dance between the UCFS’s demands and her people’s needs. An unexpected gift of knowledge leaves her reeling. Hunter has to deal with the new revelations about his origins, the trial and the resulting repercussions, all the while working to keep his family safe. Trash gets a chance to rescue a brother in need and add him to the Embassy’s staff. More Iguacans flood into the Embassy seeking sanctuary. More unusual gifts are discovered. And with every secret learned, Elaan uncovers facts she’d rather stay buried.

Dilemma

Asher's in trouble, again. He’s been sober for three years now, and is about to star in a grand scale come-back movie. Messing up now will mean the end of his career, and possibly his marriage. To get ready, he's rented a cottage in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where they will start filming in a month. Although he’s thousands of miles from his family and friends, he’s looking forward to the upcoming challenges. But on his first day there, the trouble started with a car crash. Then he found a body in the woods. Or did he? When the sheriff arrives, it’s nowhere to be seen. There are more dark deeds brewing in the mountains. An explosion starts a wildfire in the woods behind his cottage. Then a rockslide pushes his car off the road. Is someone trying to kill him, again?

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