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Thirty-nine stories. No two alike. Every one finds the moment where the rules stop working.
A scientist confronts the dystopian system he helped build when a pregnant woman proves humanity is fighting back. A boy rides across the frontier with his dead father's gun, hunting a corrupt preacher. A gunslinger's mathematical precision meets the one opponent his equations cannot predict. A ghost detective with a Spectral Spook Zapper investigates a suspicious death at a haunted estate. A son stands at his mother's funeral crafting comfortable lies until someone tells the devastating truth.
From space opera to western frontier. From supernatural mystery to literary heartbreak. From satire to silence.
Sharp Turns Ahead is a multi genre short story collection spanning science fiction, Westerns, horror, magical realism, mystery, satire, and speculative literary fiction. Stories range from fifty-word flash fiction to full narratives, organized into four sections:
Part One: Dystopian futures, corporate espionage among the stars, and alien encounters that challenge everything we think we know.
Part Two: Warmth, wonder, and dark comedy -- street pirates in a rusted minivan, weather gods learning about love, and a Commodore 64 making one last case for its own relevance.
Part Three: Frontier violence, a revenge western, a stagecoach station full of liars, and the CIA's twenty-million-dollar attempt to weaponize a cat.
Part Four: Stories of grief, legacy, and what endures -- a grief-eater discovers the cost of consuming others' pain, a cup of tea connects lives across centuries, and a dying rancher asks for his boots one last time.
The common thread: characters who discover that the truths they accepted deserve questioning.
Featuring stories previously published in Freedom Fiction Journal, Frontier Tales Magazine, Literally Stories, Books 'N Pieces Magazine, and Kaidankai Podcast. For readers who love the twist-driven unpredictability of The Twilight Zone, the speculative ambition of Ted Chiang, and the frontier grit of Annie Proulx -- in one book.
From award winning author Daniel P. Douglas, Foreword Reviews IndieFab Science Fiction Finalist and Readers' Favorite Award winner.
For readers who refuse to stay in one genre.
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