COLLECTED HERE ARE KLEIN’S RARE AND OBSCURE SHORT STORIES, HARD TO FIND EVEN FOR DEDICATED FANS.
Creatures sinister but unseen. Madmen who may not be so mad. Realities that twist into astonishing patterns. Insidious new technologies beyond our understanding or control. Welcome to the existential weird fiction of master storyteller T.E.D. KLEIN, the acclaimed editor of Twilight Zone... [click here for more]
T.I.T.A.N. 2100 is a Future Fiction story exploring the near-future of Earth and Humanity; detailing the potential course our history may take over the next century while utilizing a wealth of real world information and projections to create a glimpse of the future. Contained within is detailed information about the timeline, geography, people of the 22nd century, factions and the technology used... [click here for more]
After the Femme Fatale virus wiped out 20 percent of women, the world fell into chaos. One father has to make the ultimate sacrifice for his daughter. A short story of 2,000 words, plus samples of other short stories. Includes a PDF and an EPUB version.
This short story appears in the collection Short Lives, which contains 30 short stories for a dollar, and is available here. ... [click here for more]
Set to the music and lyrics and music of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, this is the story of Theodore the disenfranchised rabbit; working tirelessly on the moon to dig a hole from one side to the other to let the sun through; playing in a mundane rock band and having sex rampantly but without much zest. ... [click here for more]
Be careful going in the water.
It lurks beneath the surface, thirsty for blood and hungry for flesh. It roams where it may and sometimes finds a feast to satisfy its need to kill.
Book I: What is supposed to be a fun weekend with friends quickly turns into a bloodbath when a massive alligator invades their fun.
Book II: In the once-quiet... [click here for more]
"Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city." The CitySpire, a city with monolithic skyscrapers, flawless streets and endless boulevards rests in the middle of the sea. It is an island that waits both quiet and vacant. Its single inhabitant wakes unfamiliar to his surroundings, his memory as thick as the fog that occasionally rises from the city sewers, with only a single... [click here for more]
Ellie is a soldier in a world without governments. A generation ago, a series of financial crises caused most of the world’s governments to collapse, and left many of the people in those countries in terrible personal debt. Since then, the worst debtor nations have been under military occupation by the troops of the debt-recovery corporations, and the worst debtor of all is Měi-guó,... [click here for more]