This book collects the first five parts of the serial novel Round Up At The Burger bar: The Legend of Trixie Pug. These stories are set in the year 3003. By the year 3333 1/3 massive fast food corporations control the galaxy. Trixie is destined to become the galaxy's 2nd most powerful CEO for a fast food franchise called Heavenly Sky Burger. These stories reveal the early adventures of Trixie and her friend Cherry Bomb thirty years before she becomes a CEO. In these stories you will discover how Trixie became the hungry woman she eventually becomes. The story is satire and meant to be a funny satirical take on our possible future, and like any good SF, answers questions; What if fast food corporations controlled the galaxy and the future? What problems would occur? And how would we overcome these problems? I truly hope you read this story in the light it was meant and enjoy the ride and laugh at the absurdities that occur sometimes when you ask these questions. To read more about Trixie check out the short story, Big Business and the novel Attack of the Lushites.

Join Russ Crossley on a journey to five worlds of urban fantasy together in one collection. Tales where people turn into frogs, a woman travels to an alternate reality, in a fairytale world a newspaper reporter is accused of murder, a young wizard competes on a TV reality show, and in the far future the last vampire becomes the prey. Welcome to adventures into the weird and the wonderful.

In the year 4444 and a 1/4 the Lushites have returned. Piper Cleaner, First Assistant to the Assistant Surveillance Officer discovers a Lushite intergalactic vessel heading their way. Alarm bells ring throughout the galaxy Have the Lushites returned to seek revenge? The Vice President of Galaxy Tobacco orders Piper and a team of the Order of the Gold Leaf Tobacco elite commandos, led by Major Virginia Slim, to destroy the Lushites thus saving smoking for all human and alien kind. Piper and Major Slim soon discover plots, counterplots, and general scheming using the sudden reappearance of the Lushite Alliance to mask another plot to overthrow the galaxy. Will they save the day or is it game over? Join Piper and Major Slim on a crazy, outrageous ride across the galaxy in the far future where addictions are rampant and conspiracies thrive. Is smoking bad for you? In the future who knows? This report confirms tobacco is a plant. Plants are good. Good is good. Therefore using this perfect logic as our guide smoking tobacco is good. - Excerpt from a speech by the President of Galaxy Tobacco after the Galactic Surgeon Admiral released a report concerning the health risks of smoking, circa 3939.

Five stories of fantasy and science fiction each an unexpected twist on reality. In this collection you will find tales of dragons, AI robots engaged in a secret war, a shipwrecked vampire, a man who fixes a UFO, and a writer of coffee table books who enters a fantasy world in search of the perfect cup. Tales to entertain, amuse, and make your pulse race.

In this diverse collection are stories with impossible odds to avoid certain death, satire where the fast food companies run the future, AI robots locked in a deadly civil war, and space travelers with very human problems. There are tales set in weird alternate realities, a vampire castaway on the hunt for blood, fire breathing dragons, demented cheerleaders, and a man asked to fix a UFO to save a friend. A gift for lovers of fantastic fiction like me.

A collection of tales filled with drooling werewolves, powerful wizards, brain-hungry zombies, deadly giants, even time travel, and alternate worlds. The detectives are spies, time travel agents, big city newspaper reporters, some aren't human. Join these crime solving sleuths on their bizarre adventures to weird lands. They may be strange but they know crime.