Lillicat Publishers: 21 books

The Future Is Short: Science Fiction in a Flash presents 57 microstories by talented authors. Relish each story in tiny bites of speculative fiction entertainment and adventure, catching glimpses of miniature worlds of the future in breathtakingly fresh flights of science fiction imaginings. As...

Stretch your mind with stories of Flight, Prophecy, and Rites of Passage. Immerse yourself in the experience of Rearranging Worlds, Vice, and Frequently Repeated Actions. Sit down with Monsters and enjoy A Repast, talk Trade or revel in A Song, but beware of the Signs. Fill a few minutes or a day...

The theme, Moons of Saturn, provided inspiration for the creation of widely divergent tales centered about the mysterious planet and its system. NASA’s Cassini Missions have captured stunning images of Saturn, its mesmerizing Rings of ice and rock, and its 53 officially named moons. These...

Imagine the deepest regions of space between the stars. Cold, empty, silent, and vast. In the quest to achieve immortality for our species, someday, humankind will reach those realms. Television and movies depict spaceships spending weeks and months, sometimes years, traveling from one star to another...

“I’ve been involved in the creative writing racket since 1956. About 10 years ago I started producing an anthology series, Twisted Tails. When I put out a call for submissions for the most recent volume, Twisted Tails IX: Wunderkind, I received a manuscript from Mark Ayling. I am a tough editor...

Humankind has forded the immense stream of space between stars and reached our nearest solar neighbors. What will we discover on hospitable planets circling those new stars? Will we find almost familiar moons, asteroids, planetary rings? Or, could there be never before seen astronomical formations?...

Stories & Authors: “The Father and the Belt” ~ Amos Parker, “White Whale of Europa” ~ Mark Mellon, “Waters Above the Heavens” ~ Kara Race-Moore, “Tombaugh's Frozen Heart” ~ Jeremy Lichtman, “The Hope Incident” ~ Ami L Hart, “Gypsy in the Belt” ~ Timothy Paul, “Corner...

New and established authors try their hands at writing to monthly prompts, vying for the coveted title of Science Fiction Microstory Contest Champion. Could you do this? How well do you think you would succeed? Check the prompts and see how each author met the Challenge.S. M. Kraftchak, Jack...

Visions VI: Galaxies moves us beyond our own provincial area of space and into the broader perspective of multiple galaxies. With hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Universe and hundreds of billions of stars in most galaxies, the possibility of habitable planets other than our Earth is a certainty....

This is the personal recollections of a hard-working man from the American mid-west who grew up in the time between two world wars. Born to a 14-year-old-mother and an abusive father, his life journey is a compelling testament to the power of personal integrity and dedication to family. Despite many...

VISIONS:Leaving Earth is an anthology exploring humankind's obsession with space and leaving the home of their origin, with a Foreword by Sam Bellotto Jr., Editor, Perihelion Science Fiction Magazine. A broad range of professional and undiscovered science fiction authors from around the world present...

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.~ William ShakespeareVisions VII: Universe Authors’ DistinctionsDoug C. Souza won first place in the 2016 Writers of the Future Quarterly Contest.Jason Lairamore is a published finalist of the 2012 SQ...

In the Sixty's predawn of the Women’s Liberation Movement, young Nora Seikh, full of self-doubts after an abusive relationship and a failed subsequent attempt at love, searches amid Berkeley’s budding antiwar movement for new ways to live and love, even while she struggles to find new paths to...

From Piers AnthonyI loved SNAKE IN THE GRASS!I read Snake in the Grass by Ron Leming. Snake is a feisty, sexy, hundred-pound girl whose job is to go get the oddball stories for her newspaper, assisted by her friend the weird photographer Batty. One story is about gold balls that are appearing...