Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers, and schoolchildren to write, submit, read, workshop, and discuss stories which explore true and alternative African culture. Their fourth annual competition and anthology is on the theme of migration. Featuring an ever-widening range of writers from across the continent these are fresh, urgent perspectives on one of our most profound phenomena. It includes shortlisted stories by Sibongile Fisher (South Africa), Mirette Bahgat Eskaros (Egypt), Blaize Kaye (South Africa), Megan Ross (South Africa), Stacy Hardy (South Africa), TJ Benson (Nigeria), and fifteen other up-and-coming writers.

Welcome to the ninth volume of AudioArcadia.com's series entitled AN ECLECTIC MIX. Within these pages are contained ten winning stories by ten different authors whose entries, amongst many others, were submitted to our short story competition which ended on 30th June this year. There are a total of twelve stories in this book which we hope you will find fascinating and intriguing, one way or another. Full details of how to enter our current writing competition can be viewed by clicking the 'Competition' tab on our website.

'Spatial Zones' is the third paperback AudioArcadia.com has published in their Science Fiction series. This book contains a total of fourteen short stories, nine of which were winners in their last Science Fiction writing competition. The winning titles are: ""Battle Stations"" ""Lifting the World"" ""The Heart of Town"" ""Doppelg nger"" ""Hack"" ""What Can Happen When You Leave Your Lights On at the Drive-through"" ""Not Wanted on Voyage"" ""Life on Mars"" ""The Right Hand."" This collection is a must-read for devotees of science fiction short stories.

SHORT STORIES written by An Egyptian writer Hisham Edris , vary in size ..

Below are three intriguing tasters of seventeen fascinating and spell-binding stories written by various authors from Europe and the USA: TIME BOMBSHELL: It's the year 2030. Together with his girlfriend, Iris, Anton Nadin escapes from an horrific situation by transporting their minds - but not their bodies - back in time by fifty years. But when they rendezvous in the centre of a far different London, Anton finds he has exchanged one nightmare for another. QOHELETH: Q sees numbers everywhere. He can't escape them. How can he live his life when his world is filled with countdowns to death? LAUNCH OF THE SPACESHIP ARCTURUS: When the Chaos Wars threaten to bring the end of life on Earth, brilliant programmer Loc Phuket and his team battle ruthless Luddite forces to arrive at the secret jungle launch station of the Spaceship Arcturus. There, Loc's team of humans, avatars and artificial intelligences successfully launch Arcturus on a voyage to the edge of the universe to assure the future of humankind.

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

CLEANAWAY 3000: Can you erase your past? The new 'Cleanaway 3000' machine promises to make your regrets disappear, but at a cost. THE KAR'REYIL STONE: Spider demons. A tortured hero. Can Drenyk lead mankind to reign over the Voras Rike? INTERSTELLAR BROADCASST: On the Colorado plains, the first radio signal from intelligent extraterrestrial life is detected. THE NOT-SO-HUMAN SOUL: A first-hand account of an unexpected scientific discovery with huge ramifications for mankind. MAGPIE chronicles the struggle between a Spymistress and her prot g . TIMEO DANAOS: A new species of jellyfish mysteriously washes up dead with the tide. JUNO: A home assistant who is smart, efficient, responsive ... and jealous. UNPAID CREDIT: Cyborgs have subjugated humanity, leaving them vulnerable to attack.