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Expiration Date

Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates. Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events: when a species goes extinct; when a body of water evaporates, or dies because the PH balance alters; when giant icebergs break apart and glaciers melt forever, threatening the ecosystem of this planet.

Nancy Kilpatrick has gathered together twenty-five original stories by Kelley Armstrong; Nancy Holder & Erin Underwood; Steve and Melanie Tem; Lois Gresh; Gar and Judy Reeves-Stevens; Daniel Sernine; Paul Kane; Sephera Giron; Kathryn Ptacek; Steve Vernon and others to look at the what-if’s of our expiring future.

These stories span a range of emotions. Some will make you laugh, other will make you cry. They are grim and hopeful, sad and joyous, horrifying and comforting. You can expect to be touched in some way.

Introduction by Nancy Kilpatrick

NEGOTIATING OBLIVION

Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word by Kelley Armstrong

Banshee by Daniel Sernine (translation by Sheryl Curtis)

Riding Shotgun by Elaine Pascale

The Twenty Seven Club by J. M. Frey

Trinity Death by Steve Vernon

What I Said to Richie was... by Ken Goldman

To Dance, Perchance to Die by David McDonald

Death Doll by Lois H. Gresh

RESISTING EXTINCTION

The Long Wait by R. B. Payne

That Brightness by Mary E. Choo

Night Market by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem

Sooner by Morgan Dambergs

The Great Inevitable by Patricia Flewwelling

In a Moment by Christine Steendam

Death Drives a Cordoba by Ryan McFadden

Prison Break by Tobin Elliott

This Strange Way of Dying by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Deaths of Jeremiah Colverson by George Wilhite

BEST BEFORE / BEST AFTER

The Shadow of Death by Paul Kane

An Inspector Calls by Rebecca Bradley

What Would Lizzie Do? by Sèphera Girón

Ashes to Ashes by Amy Grech

The Greyness by Kathryn Ptacek

things in jars by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens

Right of Survivorship by Nancy Holder and Erin Underwood

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 274
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781770530621
  • Genres
  • horror, fiction, anthologies, fantasy, supernatural
  • Release date
  • 2015