Short stories

From Daring Prison Breaks to Galaxy-Expanding Science Fiction

Do you like funny, fast-paced space opera featuring space pirates, surly artificial intelligences, dashing rogues, alien artifacts, and deadly surprises?

You’ll love these three stories from the Starship Ass universe:

• Escape From Aresh Five
• The Overlord of Kepler 186f
• Moon of Ontera

This collection can be enjoyed at any time. Read these stories before, after, or even while you’re enjoying Books One-thru-Three of the Starship Ass trilogy!

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This thoughtful, existentialist science fiction short is a vivid and intimate journey on an unavoidable subject. With lyrical prose, intricate descriptions, and a fascinating point of view, J. R. Frontera takes you on a deep dive into what it means to be a living member of the universe...

HAVING DIED, YOU REALIZE THE LIVING HAVE DEATH FIGURED ALL WRONG. Some think they are more right than others; some don't care if they are right at all. Some care enough about being right that they actually murder over it, which in hindsight is quite ironic—and it's just too bad those poor murdered souls can't come back to tell the rest what after-death is really like. But in the end, when it really counts, they are all still equally wrong.

It will be disorienting at first, especially to those with high expectations. There will be no fanfare of trumpets, no bright lights or tunnels. Unfortunately, there are no pearly gates, no golden streets or glass towers, no halos or wings or booming voices or angelic songs heralding your arrival into a grand paradise.

Instead, you will not know you are dead for some time ...

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Inspired by a walk through a cemetery, this short story takes readers on an intriguing, poetic exploration of the after-death, examining our multiple origins as well as our various endings ... and everything that might happen in-between.

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Rostam Hobbs never told anyone about the dreams.

He'd been on track to make Chief Engineer of the New Horizon space station … before the dreaming interrupted his sleep patterns. Before the miscalculation that nearly froze the entire west residence wing into a block of ice. Before he’d been reassigned to a junk-bucket scout ship to get lost in some godforsaken corner of space.

Dreamers were supposed to have been identified and utilized by the time they hit puberty, and he’s well past that. Maybe they wouldn’t take him now, given his age, but he doesn’t dare chance being found out. Most people are blissfully unaware that Dreamers even exist. But he works in Engineering. He knows everything about Dreamers.

And on a ship this small on a mission this long, it’s getting harder and harder to hide …

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J. R. Frontera proves in this tale of the future that a mind belonging to the glory days of the Twilight Zone still puts pen to page. This brilliantly written, very meaty science fiction thriller short will have you jumping out of your chair -- literally -- and when it's over, you'll be haunted by the results....

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Lonely assassins. Moon vacations. Consciousness transfers.

What do all of these have in common? For the characters in this collection of science fiction short stories, they mean the end of the line....

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