Second-Best with a Sword and Other Stories - Free Ebook

If you were looking for any of the short fiction I previously had posted on this blog since 2022, those stories and several new ones are in my latest free ebook, Second-Best with a Sword and Other Stories.  (The ones before that are in Ice Cold and Other Stories, Expanded Edition, also free, as all my ebooks are.)

See my entry Ebooks Update for a full list.

Sixteen stories, including two novelettes, 32,000 words of science fiction, spooky stories, a couple of Christmas tales, and more.

Three science fiction stories, two more that are specifically time travel, five spooky stories, a humor piece, two that focus on the environment, and a couple of heartwarming Christmas tales.

Table of Contents

Science Fiction-Adventure
Second-Best with a Sword
Drive
Debt Race 2200

Time Travel
Logic of Time
Logic of Time - 1989 original, excerpt
The One

Spooky
Sound
The Other Side of Life
Eyes Closed
Fever
Shadow Dreams

Superheroes
Corona

The Environment
Biotage
Empire of Dust

Humor
Hot People with Guns

Christmas
No Crying at Christmas
It's Only Christmas