Ice Cold and Other Stories - Expanded Edition

I wondered for a long time what to do with my first self-published work, Ice Cold and Other Stories.  When I was still on Amazon, and reduced the ebook price of all my 100k-word novels to 99₵, there was Ice Cold still sitting there, two short stories and a novelette…for 99₵.  A price I couldn't reduce further.

I wanted to add a bunch of the other short fiction I'd written and do an expanded edition…but would that be fair to the people who'd already bought it?

Well, now that all my ebooks are free, it was a no-brainer.  Add in almost all the short fiction I've published in this blog, plus a number of stories never before published, and there we go.

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Expanded from 3 stories to 65, almost 150k words, ranging from my first real effort at a story, to more recent works of humor, horror, fantasy, parallel worlds, time travel, science fiction on libertarian worlds, a superhero tale, a couple of young adult stories, and holiday tales too.

These stories were written between 1982 and 2020, and in the course of them I wanted to try a lot of different things.  So they range from the very violent You've Seen the Video, Now Read the Story to the spooky Half Seen to the minimalist Princess Katana to the uplifting The Enchanted Treehouse to the bleak Doctor.

Which is to say, I think anyone can find some stories in here they'll love…but maybe no one will love every story.

All my ebooks - free: http://self.gutenberg.org/Authors/KevinWadeJohnson, or see my entry Ebooks Update for a full list.

Table of Contents

The Original Ice Cold
Ice Cold
Exile
Emptyville

Libertarian Worlds
Glamour Angel
Numb
Run
Cinnamon Girl
Love?  I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Unauthorized Intrusion
Body Guard
You've Seen the Video, Now Read the Story

Parallel Worlds
The Only One in the World
Exit Ramp
A Friend in Need
Reflective Phase

Time Travel
About Time
One More Time
Time Change

Science Fiction
Warrior of Empire
Free! (Dark)
Free!
First Contact
The Alien Woman

Fantasy
A World of Dream and Nightmare
Devil of a Storm
North Woods Werewolf
Princess Katana
Invincible

Horror
Botnet
Half Seen
Surly Bonds
Vampire Country
If Psychic Powers Are Real, Where Are They?
Resistance
Doctor
A Door Closed
Hector

Superheroes
Nightwatch: Dusk and Dawn

The Environment
Knightside
Rising
Blinded by the—

Humor
Another Friday Night in the Multiverse
Immortality at Last!
Roman in Time
Bugs
Suddenly Ninjas Came Through the Window
The Lost Heir of Generica
The Bureaucracy of the Rings

Early Efforts
Not…Human
Death of a Captain
Riven
City of the Dead
A Time to Remember

Young Adult
The Enchanted Treehouse
Sam's Tale: The Girl Who Fought

Pets/Tearjerkers
Old Abby
Percival's Thanksgiving

Mainstream/Holiday
Christmas Is Just Another Day
"Christmas Is All a Lie!"
Christmas Storm
The Christmas Sweater
Christmas Alone
Goblin Hound
Hosanna Hound
Et in Arcadia Ego