Heroes and villains are not always on the opposite ends of the spectrum of good and evil. Sometimes, all that separates them is a fine line. The stories within "Parallel Worlds" explore the lives of such heroes and what drives them -- and what keeps them from crossing over to the other side.
This anthology features nineteen stories from bestselling, award-winning, and emerging authors, and includes brand new, never-before seen stories from Jim Butcher's, "Dresden Files," Robert Asprin's "The Myth-Adventures" by Jody Lynn Nye, and Neo Edmund's "Red Riding Alpha Huntress Chronicles."

Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within

Literature & Fiction

Butcher, Jim

Nye, Jody Lynn

Nohelty, Russell

Butler, D.J.

Ritchey, Aaron Michael

Fahnestock, Todd

Virdi, R.R.

Copen, E.A.

Hehr, Colton

Hachmeister, L.J.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Independently published

A psychopath escapes from an asylum and becomes a monster hunter during the apocalypse with the unwelcome help of the voice in his head. This is a story about perception. Throughout the whole story we don't know if Ichabod is really in the Apocalypse, if it's all in his head, or if he's killing real people and just thinks they are monsters.

Ichabod Jones: A psychopath's work is never done (Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Wannabe Press

Invasion

Teen & Young Adult

The town of Paradise Alaska is flash frozen and thawed 100 years in the future into a Utopian nightmare. The citizens are thawed and used as experiments for the pleasure of Hort-I-Vex, the biggest company in the world. If they are not deemed "exceptional", they are tossed into the Dregs and left for dead.

Paradise

What would you do during the Apocalypse? How would you survive? Those are the questions that have plagued Katrina for years. All the good boys and girls were raptured up to Heaven, leaving the rest of humanity to ask a single, solitary question: “Why not me?” Hellspawn rose from Hell and rampaged across the world, eviscerating all they came across. It was bedlam, Hell on Earth. There was nothing anybody could do to stop it. Then the Hellspawn got bored and settled for a quiet life in the suburbs. They squatted in the homes of the people they once mercilessly murdered. And that’s where Katrina Hates the Dead starts. Humanity survived the rampaging demons and now has to work and live alongside them. They steal all the good jobs, and leave humanity cowering is squalor. Katrina is a non-stop thrill ride from beginning to end. She fights minotaurs, Cerebus dogs, zombies, demons, and more, as she fights across the plains of oblivion. But the book also explored the deep pain and angst of a society that was forsaken by god, decimated by Satan, and left to live in hunger. And yet humanity is strong. They persist. But everything has a breaking point, and after watching friend after friend die at the unforgiving and unjust hands of fate, Katrina’s had enough and sets out to face off with the Devil to earn back her old life.

Katrina Hates The Dead: A blasphemous action-adventure comedy

Katrina Hates The Dead: Hard Cover

My Father Didn't Kill Himself: A mystery novel told all in blog posts

How would you cope with your father's suicide? Delilah doesn't handle it well. She adores her father, so when he commits suicide it devastates her. He was the perfect dad in her eyes, and her family enjoyed the perfect life. When her father's life insurance policy won't pay out and the bank threatens to evict her, she sets out to prove he was actually murdered so she doesn't lose her childhood home. Set in 2007, My Father Didn't Kill Himself is told through a series of blog posts between Delilah and her best friend Alex as they battle through the emotional turmoil left in the wake of their loved one's death...and the realization he might not be perfect after all.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

How would you cope with your father's suicide? Delilah doesn't handle it well. She adores her father, so when he commits suicide it devastates her. He was the perfect dad in her eyes, and her family enjoyed the perfect life. When her father's life insurance policy won't pay out and the bank threatens to evict her, she sets out to prove he was actually murdered so she doesn't lose her childhood home. Set in 2007, My Father Didn't Kill Himself is told through a series of blog posts between Delilah and her best friend Alex as they battle through the emotional turmoil left in the wake of their loved one's death...and the realization he might not be perfect after all. But before you think the book is wholly depressing, don't worry. I don't roll like that. I take wholly depressing stories, then injecting humor and warmth into them. I'm like John Green meets Kurt Vonnegut, or at least that's who I aspire to be one day...they both have amazing hair.

Albert Ross is the most miserable, pathetic, and terrible thing in the entire universe. He is reviled by many, most of all God. Albert Ross is an anomaly. Karma doesn't think anything he does is wrong. It's a glitch in the universe that God can't fix. Every trillion or so births in the universe, there is a karmic anomaly. That's not to say karma doesn't have its retribution. For every horrible act Albert Ross commits, karma punishes Vikram Suresh. Poor, sweet Vikram. He doesn't know why his life is so horrible. He doesn't know why the universe is unkind. It's unkind because of Albert Ross. That is the crux of the karmic anomaly. Karma thinks everything that Albert Ross does is actually carried out by Vikram Suresh. What a horrible lot in life. That's why Vikram kills himself. It usually doesn't matter when a poor, miserable schlub dies, but this death has instant ramifications. With his death, Karma can instantly see Albert Ross again and realizes its mistake. Like a rubber band, all the horrible things that Albert's ever done slingshot back to him at once. And God watches with glee as karma has its revenge. Worst Thing in the Universe is narrated by God, as he pontificates on the horrible fate of Vikram Suresh, expounds on the nature of the universe, and explores the flaws in the whole system.

Worst Thing in the Universe (Cosmic Weave standalone books)

Humor & Satire

How long have you been trying to build your career? How many hours have you spent banging your head against a wall? How much money have you sunk into ads and marketing that just don't work? Now, what if you had a blueprint that could show you all the elements you need to build a creative career without feeling gross about it. How much would that be worth to you? This book can't guarantee you a successful career, but it can give you all the fundamental knowledge you need to set you up for success because it was written by a creative for a creative. Sell Your Soul is set up in five sections: How to Make Great Content, The Basics of Sales, Building an Audience from Scratch, Making Money at Live Shows, and Launching your Product Successfully. Every creative I've ever met is stuck at one of those stages of their career, and this book gives you the tools to open those floodgates, overcome those blocks in your own career, and supercharge your career. So the question is this: if this book can break you through the blocks in your own life, what is it worth to you?

Sell Your Soul: How to Build Your Creative Career

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

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