Short Stories

Alone on Listening Post Seven, Dr. Marisol Vega catches a signal from a moon nobody names — and the song starts listening back.

Victoria flees her family into a midnight park. Her brother finds her with Lyle in his arms — and won't let her hide from the life she built.

Twelve-year-old Jake ducks into a boarded-up alley after a robbery — and finds something in the basement that hunts with red eyes.

At a CEO's retirement party, Mark Gibbs engineers a perfect murder — then learns his partners want more than the jobs he promised.

A funeral forces a long estrangement into the open. Richard drives his family to bury his mother — and faces the bridges he burned thirty years ago.

Two hungry girls hide in a culvert waiting to steal a rich child's lunch. Then the girl they rob invites them home — and nothing feels like winning anymore.