Free again from the author via KDP Select @
Amazon:
The Box & Other Odd Stories by Steven Torres (
SYKM), a collection of mostly mystery/thriller shorts with some sf/fantasy pieces.
13 Stories, 60,000 words, Countless Oddities...
In Perfecta, the citizens have been genetically modified to help them become their best selves, but that doesn't mean there can't be a little murder.
In Well Worn, the twisted but true story of Cinderella and her prince finally comes to light.
The Price of being Billy's friend is quite high, and can only be paid in blood, but whose?
Desert People is about a photographer on assignment in an arid land and the people he winds up buying.
Taking Van Der Flieder's Star is an old-fashioned tale of greed, meteorites, and catching the last ferry. (the rest of the story summaries can be found in the full blurb)
Free again from the author via KDP Select @
Amazon:
A Warrior's Code by Larry Johns, a mercenary action adventure thriller originally out from UK publisher Robert Hale in 2011. If you picked up the self-pub sequel that was freebied previously upthread but missed the original, well, now you've got the entire set.
Treachery and double-cross are the hallmarks of the mercenary soldier. Because, who is the real enemy? Is he the man in your cross-hairs, or the friend alongside you? Or is it the man who pays your wages? Martin Palmer knows that a potentially fatal bullet might come from any direction. And yet he must fight, because fighting is all he knows. This deadly challenge will test him to the limits of his endurance. He knows there will always be another paymaster with high aspirations, and enough money to pursue them...and money, of course, is the mercenary soldier's creed.