Anthology series: Dark Drabbles
Editor: D. Kershaw
Language: English
Bibliographic comments:
Worlds: A Dark Drabble Anthology
D. Kershaw, ed.
2019
< First edition, June 2019
Black Hare Press
ISBN 978-1-925809-36-7
Trade paperback, 373 pages
$15.99
Notes:
• Foreword by D. Kershaw and Ben Thomas.
• 312 drabbles.
• 'Dark Drabbles' series #1.
• Relevant contents are highlighted in white.
Fiction: Liam Hogan, Hard Sell // Joe Buckley, Unit 67 // Allen Stroud, At the End // R. J. Hunt, The Worst Part //
Brian Koukol, Oneiros // Becky Beniskek, Single Colonists Wanted // Elizabeth Montague, Ad Infinitum //
Joachim Heijndermans, Sameface Embark // Rich Rurshell, Seedlings // Alison McBain, Monstrous Humanity //
Shelly Jarvis, Cinephile // Brian Koukol, Vital Lung Capacity // Minette Fisher, Ship Cat // A. S. Charly, The Last
Sunshine // D. M. Burdett, Atomic Soup // J. Lee Strickland, Encounter // Lynne Lumsden Green, Cloneliness //
Joachim Heijndermans, Off the Mark // Joshua D. Taylor, The True Meaning of Space Christmas // Chitra
Gopalakrishnan, Our Future Is Here // Matt Lucas, Drones // R. J. Hunt, A Higher Form of Combat // C. H.
Williams, Happy Birthday, Old Sport // Alanah Andrews, Immigration // D. K. Spencer, Lunch // Stuart West,
Despair // Adam Bennett, Castaway // Andew Anderson, Goodbye, for Now // Gregg Cunningham, Space Force
One // Chitra Gopalakrishnan, Place for One More // Vonnie Winslow Crist, Waiting for Julie // Alanah Andrews,
Final Transmission // Alicia Flood, Weeping Killer // Sinister Sweetheart, Power Off // Alanah Andrews, Whispers
on the Breeze // Shelly Jarvis, Your/My/Our Memories // G. Allen Wilbanks, Far from Home // Raven Corinn
Carluk, Breakthrough // Umair Mirxa, Deploy // Isabella Fox, A New Chance for Mankind // J. U. Menon,
Abducted // Terry Miller, Transitioning // Shawn M. Klimek, Truly Alive // Rich Rurshell, Fruitless // C. L.
Williams, Unfamiliar // Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer, The Takeover // M. K. Cadigan, I Am the Wreck // Russell
Hemmell, The Scavengers of Lost Time // Stephen Coghlan, Exosphere // David Bowmore, Eden // Joel R. Hunt,
News from Earth // Aiki Flinthart, The Third Option // Kent Swarts, Earthians // Carole de Monclin, Unwanted //
C. L. Williams, Skull Control // Raven Corinn Carluk, The Cage // Eddie D. Moore, What Human? // Crystal L.
Kirkham, Perfection // Zoey Xolton, Saving Ixion-13 // Terry Miller, Burrowers // Shelly Jarvis, Circuits of Love //
Dawn DeBraal, Fungus Among Us // S. John Davis, Home // R. A. Goli, Colonisation // Gabriella Balcom, A Bee
Situation // Stuart Conover, A Waste of Life // J. D. Bell, Greetings from Beyond // E. L. Giles, Destination: Earth
// Isabella Fox, A Generous Gesture // David Bowmore, First Contact // Austin P. Sheehan, The Distance Between
Heavenly Bodies // Aiki Flinthart, And in the Mind, Darkness // Jacob Baugher, Lamplights and Starfields // John
H. Dromey, Bountiful Harvest // R. J. Hunt, Lowly Creatures // Grant Hinton, Reminiscence // Bob Adder, It's
Over // Shawn M. Klimek, No Meaning in a Vacuum // Umair Mirxa, Colony // Aiki Flinthart, They Always Fall //
Virginia Carraway Stark, The Band Between // Tim Hawken, Digits // Shawn M. Klimek, Good Morning and
Farewell // Stephen Herczeg, Just Like Home // Jacob Baugher, Ohio-1 // Alanna Robertson-Webb, The Rippling
Wormhole // Nancy Brewka-Clark, Sins of the Flesh 2119 // J. Farrington, Hive Mind // Pamela Jeffs, Wild
Frontier // John H. Dromey, Fast Forward // Alexander Pyles, Conscious Overload // Joe Buckley, Mara's Time //
Terry Miller, First Harvest // Beth W. Patterson, Common Arms // Joshua D. Taylor, Cycles // Terry Miller,
Analysis: Flawed // Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer, The Duel // Eric S. Fomley, Damned in the Dark // Rich Rurshell,
Market Day // Pamela Jeffs, Mechanics of the Body // Peter Larsen, Dark Places // C. L. Williams, The New Eve
// Aditya Deshmukh, Red Sphinx // Sinister Sweetheart, Subliminal Messaging // Peter Foote, Static // Zoey
Xolton, Creep in the Cornfield // J. R. Hunt, Spoils // Alexander Pyles, Blitz // Donald Jacob Uitvlugt,
Schadenfreude // Crystal L. Kirkham, System Reset // Brian Rosenberger, The Portal // Shawn M. Klimek, A
Quick, Full Cure // Jodi Jensen, Valley of Penance // J. D. Bell, I Know Who I AM // Vonnie Winslow Crist, Eden
// Stephen Herczeg, But It Looked So Cute // E. L. Giles, The Battle We Lost // Aiki Flinthart, Through the Mouth
of God // Eddie D. Moore, Second Chance // Emily Fluckiger, Blue Brain // Stuart West, Lights // J. J. Steinfeld,
How the Wood-Devouring Archaeologist Regained a Normal Appetite After His Afflicted Mars Research Expedition //
Allen Ashley, Temporal // S. Gepp, Misplaced // Jonathan Inbody, Dry Communion // Raven Corinn Carluk,
Sortie // Jacob Baugher, Milk Clots // Dawn DeBraal, Artificial Infactuation // Melanie Harding-Shaw, Indenture Is
a Nervous System // Vonnie Winslow Crist, Abduction // Nerisha Kemraj, The Destroyers // J. D. Bell, The Mist
on DX-1405 // Beth W. Patterson, Face Invaders // Cecellia Hapkins-Drewer, Radiation Sickness // G. Allen
Wilbanks, First Contact // Cameron Marcoux, New Life // Emily Fluckiger, From Champion to Traitor // J. J.
Steinfeld, Alien Victuals // Blair Daniels, The Abduction // Brandy Bonifas, Time for Lunch // Austin P. Sheehan,
My Name Is Hunger, Yours Is Thirst // Stephen Coghlan, Two // David Bowmore, Harmony // D. M. Burdett,
Midday // Aiki Flinthart, In Place of Wisdom, Knowledge // Diane Arrelle, Candles on the Cake, Make a Wish, Then
Blow // Rickey Rivers Jr., People Afraid on a Spaceship // Stuart Conover, Mav Pressed On // Hari Navarro, The
Old Rusty Fence // Gabriella Balcom, Roy's New Friend // Pamela Jeffs, Maderae vs Human // Eddie D. Moore,
Hand Puppet // E. L. Giles, The Vessel // Zoey Xolton, The Honey Trap // Rickey Rivers Jr., Landscaping //
Rennie St. James, True Green // Shelly Jarvis, Pioneers of Nothing // Stephen Coghlan, Juste Pour Rire //
Michael Crow, Patronage // Peter Larsen, Erasure Successful // Alanna Robertson-Webb, Pew Pew Pew! //
Pamela Jeffs, Octopiod // Sinister Sweetheart, Beyond the Wormhole // T. L. Barrett, Immigration Application:
Earth from Phoebus 3 (Havenos) - Statement of Reason for Request // S. Gepp, Contemplation // Susanne
Thomas, Manifest Destiny // Stephen Herczeg, It Will Be Boring // G. Allen Wilbanks, Catch of the Day // Sinister
Sweetheart, Test Subject #1014 // Peter Larsen, The Min Min // Rich Rurshell, Meat and Greet // Dawn DeBraal,
No Guarantee // E. L. Giles, Out of Control // Crystal L. Kirkham, Ship in a Storm // R. J. Hunt, Spawn // Stuart
Conover, The Vesper // Stephen Coghlan, Countdown to Destruction // Copper Rose, Electra's Last Cigarette //
Emily Fluckiger, Kill the Greed // David Bowmore, The Edge of Space // Matthew M. Montelione, Dark Encounter
// Freddy Iryss, Match // Alexander Pyles, Pickup // Adam S. Furman, Consume, Consume, Consume // Alanah
Andrews, The Mission // Jack Wolfe Frost, Spaced // Sam M. Phillips, The Shot // Diane Arrelle, The Cat Lady
// Virginia Carraway Stark, Screen Animal // J. J. Steinfeld, The 59-Year-Old Moon-Shuttle Astronaut Whose Dying
Grandfather Whistled 'Fly Me to the Moon' 37-Years Before // Joshua D. Taylor, Retirement // Brian Rosenberger,
The Smartest Man on Earth (Formerly) // D. K. Spencer, Infinite Reality // Adam Bennett, Key // Gabriella
Balcom, Something Unkown // Cindy O'Quinn, Each World the Same // Jodi Jensen, Coerced Destruction //
Morgan Chalfant, Carapace // John H. Dromey, The New Neighbours // Matthew M. Montelione, Many Feet //
Eddie D. Moore, Ghost Ship // Alexander Pyles, The Swarm // C. L. Williams, The Locked Room // Stephen
Coghlan, Inorganic // Rowanne S. Carberry, Ice World // Crystal L. Kirkham, Paradise // Peter Larsen,
Examination // Jefferson Retallack, Faith // Jefferson Retallack, The Element of Surprise // Jefferson Retallack,
The Signals Can't Be Right // Jefferson Retallack, Two Identical Ships // Jefferson Retallack, You Were Made
Nebulous // Austin P. Sheehan, A Transmission of Hope in an Empty Void // Joel R. Hunt, Mere Statistics // Umair
Mirxa, Armada // Rich Rurshell, Frank's Baby // Ximena Escobar, Misalignment // Peter Larsen, Proceed with
Caution // Brandy Bonifas, The Ark // Alison McBain, Humanity's Monsters // Zoey Xolton, Not Alone // G. Allen
Wilbanks, Black Hole // Vonnie Winslow Crist, Modified // Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer, Flashback // Joel R. Hunt,
Evaluation // Terry Miller, The Fertile Soil // Dawn DeBraal, Down a Wormhole // Joshua D. Taylor, Black
Pyramids // Shelly Jarvis, I've Got You Under My Skin // Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Notes from Under a Foil Hat // D.
K. Spencer, Really, We're Fine // Stephen Herczeg, The Blue Planet // J. W. Garrett, The Last Warrior // Peter J.
Foote, Day Surgery // Freddy Iryss, Take Away // Zoey Xolton, Infected // Archit Joshi, Tomorrow // Dawn
DeBraal, Abduction // Shawn M. Klimek, M. E. E. First // Adam Bennett, Self Destruct // Andrew Anderson, Me
// Umair Mirxa, Exodus // Stuart Conover, The Cure // Austin P. Sheehan, New Rule // Cheryl Lawson, The
Hitchhiker // J. J. Steinfeld, Alien Architecture, or How the Interplanetary Hostilities Began // Richard G. Taylor,
Once a Dream // Jacob Baugher, Brady.v2 // Graham Robert Scott, Sentinel Species // Minette Fisher, Dinner //
D. K. Spencer, They Read Our Minds // J. D. Bell, Famine or Feast // Marcus Cook, Not My Ship! // Freddy Iryss,
Spacepirates // Michael D. Lackey, Beyond the Garden // Gabriella Balcom, After the Asteroid Fell // Pamela
Jeffs, Body Snatcher // R. J. Hunt, Two Ships in the Night // Emily Fluckiger, Mother to the Ship // Cecelia
Hopkins-Drewer, The Black Hole // Joe Buckley, Hornblower // Brian Koukol, Ephemera // Cheryl Lawson, A
Persistent Unwillingness // Diane Arrelle, The Best That Money Can Buy // T. L. Barrett, What Triggered Evacuation
Venting Procedures in Lab 3 // Brian Koukol, Sifted // John H. Dromey, Reality Check // D. K. Spencer, The
Crown of Phaeton // E. L. Giles, The Stars That Bore Your Names // Gabriella Balcom, An Unusual Sky // C. L.
Williams, Daria // Alanah Andrews, Operation Earth // Virginia Carraway Stark, Study Class // G. Allen
Wilbanks, Overpopulation // Crystal L. Kirkham, Exotic Matter // J. D. Bell, Sirens // David Bowmore, The Last
Race // Sinister Sweetheart, My Four Fathers // Peter J. Foote, Farewell // Alexander Pyles, Unadaptive //
Thomas Sturgeon, Jr., Eternal Planet // Raven Corinn Carluk, But No One // Joel R. Hunt, Thoughtful //
Jonathan Inbody, 2:03 AM // Stuart Conover, Jason's Late-Night Jog // Sarah Peffer, M. P. Special Unit X //
Gerard Pepin, Space-Crime Continuum // Julie Durbin, Restart // Rachel Miller, Mind the Ship // Vonnie Winslow
Crist, Escape from Audros // Okala Elesia, The Summer in Outer Polsari Lasts One Hundred and Fifty Earth Years //
K. R. Monin, Thought // Bryan Calligan, C1863 // Danny Bagley, Yesterday // Carole de Monclin, Lament of a
Wounded Starship // Owen Morgan, Space Battle // Kelly A. Harmon, Static // Alanna Robertson-Webb,
Freedom // K. W. Taylor, Control // Karen Dent, Universal Brotherhood // Rowanne S. Carberry, Don't Close Your
Eyes // Michael Crow, Oblation of the Stars // Austin P. Sheehan, Proximity Warning Esmerelda // Stephen
Herczeg, The Dog // Stuart West, Hope // Nancie Neal, Exiled Ghosts // Eddie D. Moore, Ship's Log // Susanne
Thomas, The Planetary Survey Crew // John H. Dromey, The Invisible Aliens // Umair Mirxa, Battle // Susanne
Thomas, The Beasts of the Land // Ravin Corinn Carluk, Ones and Zeroes
