Short Fiction Worlds Of Rob Vagle

Here are four genres of short fiction in four collections for your reading pleasure.

Closing Time And Other Threshold Stories. The five fantasy stories in this collection delves into worlds and characters undergoing change.

Read about the mind-bending funeral home in "Dreams Of Memories Never Lived."

Experience the unique and startling apocalypse in "With Wings The End."

Smile at the funny and sweet "Love And The Dead In The Life Of Jack Joy Merryman."

Read about an old west town smothered under racial injustice in "The Unjust, Dust, And Hope."

And visit the eternal bar of the afterlife in "Closing Time."

In A World. Escape your own world into these wondrous and imaginative places in these six science fiction short stories.

"The Forgiving Execution" where a new form of execution transforms more than just the condemned.

"The Counter" where a being made of gears and scales calculates a human life's monetary worth.

"He Angles, She Refracts" where a stranger courts away mirror reflections of others, leaving one narcissist desperate and alone.

"Pieces Of Us From The Earth" where the Earth holds what completes each of us to fill the hollow inside our bodies.

"The Sudden Room" where one woman glimpses her alternate lives in a strange and sudden addition to her home.

"Pining Away In The Heat Of The Sun" where a burning creature of the sun longs for the little blue planet in the distance.

Six gritty short stories in the genre of crime fiction can be found in The Devil Is In The Dust.

Phoenix private detective Guillermo Tavarez seeks not just justice, but also revenge in "A Vulture Waits."

In the story, "Fleeing," a mother denies the crimes of her dead son while blind to her own rage at losing control.

In "Confessional," a ghost yearns to confess his crime to a listening ear in a bathroom stall.

In a dark, harsh place, "Cat Noir" offers you a cat never found in a cozy mystery.

"Some Unexplained Events On Cholla Road" travels back to the mid-1960s before Roe v. Wade and during the early days of UFO encounters.

And in the final, "The Devil Is In The Dust," another Guillermo Tavarez tale. This time Guillermo returns to his city in the desert as a haboob and devils of his recent past threaten to consume him.

Horror, ghosts, and general creepiness are contained in Stark Tales.

Love that haunts both the living and the dead in "Ghost Lighter Than Aluminum."

A supernatural little lending library in "Lending The Truth."

One cursed sword, once unsheathed, will kill upon the wielder's first stroke, falls into the possession of sword swallowers in "Tyrfing And The Sword Swallower."

One sad, disintegrating mind watches the world go by through the front door peephole in "Knock On Wood."

A runner encounters horror at dusk in "Breaking Her Stride."

One haunted bathroom stall serves as a "Confessional."

And a black cat defends her territory against the human monster in "Cat Noir."

****Includes two bonus stories from the author's A Cut Beyond series collection, A Barbershop Quartet And A Solo. Step inside this ever-changing barbershop. A place of trick mirrors and altered reality. A place for all your head needs. For each person who sets foot in A Cut Beyond, that person's world is changed.

"In The Company Of Death," a woman battles her fear of death and finds help from an unusual source.

"The Price Of Redemption," a young man is offered a chance to change a fateful choice in his recent past.

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