Fiction. THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR is full of people you know: a beautician, a lawyer, a man with Alzheimer's who takes his first nightcap at three in the afternoon. But each of these thoroughly knowable protagonists is faced with a situation that causes them to become extraordinary. In these stories, Fred McGavran is both author and investigator, out to prove that every person has at least one really good story to tell.

The Butterfly Collector

Literature & Fiction

McGavran, Fred

United States

Black Lawrence Press

Because one book wasn't enough to contain the insanity. A collection of humorous paranormal short stories. See what happens when the new kid in school is the Antichrist. Aliens get fang marks from their newest abductee. Plus, we put a new wrinkle on the term 'ghost writer'. Featuring stories from Rosalind Barden, Chantal Boudreau, and David Neilsen.

Strangely Funny 2 1/2

McDaniel, Tim

Boudreau, Chantal

Barden, Rosalind

Quirt, Kevin

Mosley, Kristina R

Pegg, Matthew

Nolen, Chelsea

Humor & Satire

Mystery and Horror, LLC

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents...

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents this eclectic collection of unique novelettes and novellas from some of the most unique voices in the speculative genres. This diverse anthology offers readers an enticing assortment of high fantasy, alien adventure, paranormal investigations, haunts both real and imagined, and more. By Force and Against the King’s Peace by James Dorr Provenance by Fred McGavran Propinquity by Brian Koukol The Barghest by Rafe McGregor On Sabbatical by O’Brian Gunn Bearwalker by Derek Muk Raising Mary (Frankenstein) by Ace Antonio Hall The Belladonna by Sonny Zae Desperate Measures by Deven Greene Little Green Men? By Paul Stansbury The Number of a Man by Tom Pawlowski Detached by Rohit Arora The Death of Dr. Dean by Jack Coey The Short End of the Stick by David Perlmutter Winona in the Window by Steve Passey The Squirming, Scarlet Madness by J.E. Bates The Man with the Golden Hair by Cam Rhys Lay Song of Ascents by Maxwell Zimon Grave Escape by Olga Godim No Way At All by Mike Sherer Idan's World by Milo James Fowler

McGregor, Rafe

Fowler, Milo James

Dorr, James

Zae, Sonny

Hall, Ace Antonio

Koukol, Brian

Muk, Derek

Gunn, O'Brian

Literary

Bards and Sages Publishing

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents this eclectic collection of unique novelettes and novellas from some of the most unique voices in the speculative genres. This diverse anthology offers readers an enticing assortment of high fantasy, alien adventure, paranormal investigations, haunts both real and imagined, and more.
The Society of Misfit Stories Presents...Volume One placed in the top ten anthologies in the 2017 Preditors and Editors Reader's Poll.

Short Stories & Anthologies

A collection of finely crafted, deeply imagined shorts from a prize-winning master, Fred McGavran’s latest are his best yet. Drawing on a life of experience as top lawyer, on his calling as Episcopal deacon, and on his service as Vietnam War vet, these compelling narratives veer from fable to genre-bending country-club-horror-comedy. McGavran surveys the human condition—whether a financial advisor atop an office tower in Middle America or a tennis player nose-to-nose with water buffalo on the Ganges—with an eye for the absurd and an ear for the arresting phrase. Like Dickens or George Eliot, his writings pose moral questions that haunt the reader long after the last page is turned. Recommended for fans of John Grisham, Chekhov…and Job.
—Michael H. Hoffheimer, Professor of Law and Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government, University of Mississippi School of Law

Recycled Glass and Other Stories

Glass Lyre Press

Join the editors of Alcyone for tales of distant worlds, dystopian futures, magic and mystery, and much more. In our inaugural issue, a government agent explores alternate realities in the search for Jimi Hendrix, a pair of married assassins are subjected to their worst fears, the Tin Man writes to Dorothy, and the dead return to life. And that's just the beginning. Featuring: "Memoria" by Phillip Frey "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Jonathan Travelstead "Thermal Imprint" by Gregory Kimbrell "Reflections on a Night in Dreamland" by Jewel Beth Davis "There is a Constellation" by Terry Severhill "Draining the Swamp" by Kelly Cherry "Leafing" by Nina Schuyler "In the Thick of Flowers" by Taunja Thomson "King Solomon's Ring" by Fred McGavran "Sanguinaria" by Paul Hetzler "Site Unseen" by Joseph M. Felser "A Rocket" by Sandy Wickersham-McWhorter "Too Much Experience" by Mike Tuohy "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Lana Grey "Do Not Resuscitate" by Dan Fields "Tin Man's Note to Dorothy" by Alan Meyrowitz "Shadows" by Mandi Jourdan Edited by Mandi Jourdan and Justin Gordon.

Alcyone: Issue I: Speculative Fiction and Poetry

Schuyler, Nina

CHERRY, Kelly

Frey, Phillip

Jourdan, Mandi

Fields, Dan

Tuohy, Mike

Magazine, Alcyone

Severhill, Terry

Kimbrell, Gregory

Independently published

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