As people across the world wake one morning, they find a box waiting for them. Inside the box is a string. Every single person twenty-two years old or older receives a string - which tells them how long there life will be.

When Zelu gets fired from her teaching job and has her most recent book rejected by yet another publisher, she's feeling lower than ever. That night, she finally lets loose with nothing left to lose and writes a novel that will take the world by storm.

Adina was born to human parents, but she is anything but human. Sent here by her people to study humans, she is to report on them via an ancient fax machine until she receives the order by her superiors to return to her people.

Ryland Grace wakes up in a strange bed, in a strange room, with a robot taking care of him, and he can't remember his own name. What is happening!?

John Hammond has created a theme park of living, breathing dinosaurs, but he never stopped to think about what could go wrong.

What makes A.I. different from a real person? Is it feelings? Is it being able to differentiate right from wrong? Annie wants to find out.

Cassandra is having a terrible day. But then something incredible happens, Cassandra learns she can go back in time and make some changes.

A collection of short stories ranging from a mother protecting her children from the Fae to what happens to the gods when humanity is gone