Fan of the Genre and Other Stories

Fan of the Genre—Lyesha Volkov, senior at Greenfield High School, a lettered athlete, and likely valedictorian living the life of an all-American girl in Greenfield, that's if she isn't arrested for stalking Greenfield's newest deputy, "Handsome" Sean Healy. Her mother had left Russia with her as an infant to escape her father, a dangerous man with a dark and twisted past. She's fascinated by criminal psychology, and with that fascination, her interest in Sean may have uncovered his own dark secret. Butterfly—Breen Mogin, founder of MuIon, inventor of the Neurosynth-Orb, and creator of the first successful genetic, biosynthetic 3D printing process to create a real synthetic lifeform, a butterfly. Now Breen, the genius who had worked his entire life to create a bridge to eternity, was dying. To upload or not to upload, that was the question, or was the question, what is life, and does life continue after uploading into a synthetic brain, or is uploading its own type of death? Stories Before the Fear—Rosario Byrne was headed back home to Paiste Oileán to revisit her childhood memories, the problem was that the island had been abandoned since 1947, and she was in her mid-twenties. Were these false memories, or was there something far more sinister? Five Meters—Only five meters and Travict would reach the top of the highest surviving structure his people had ever built, a 770-meter tower nearly 1000-years old. It was a tower built before the wars that devastated his people, a tower built in another place, many light years away. Who then are the real aliens? Predictable Uncertainty—Vaughna Jenkins has powerful daydreams, dreams bordering on hallucinations, or nightmares, dreams of other beings, other dimensions, and other times. Her grasp of this time, this place, and this body are tenuous, held in place by, of all things, her love of food. Who is Vaughna, or maybe, what is Vaughna? Death Bird Song—Who was this spy with over 70-years of experience, yet barely looked 20? Was she Regina Thompson the "daughter" of Svetmila and James Venn Thompson, WWII OSS operatives, or was she Svetmila herself, forever young?