Aurealis #61    by Stephen Higgins (Editor)
Price: $2.99 USD. 14050 words. Language: English. Published by Chimaera Publications  on June 4, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
The best in Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction, featuring 'Restless' by Sophie Masson, and 'Kernel' by Sean Monaghan. Plus the best news, reviews, and interviews in the world of Australian Speculative Fiction. Your monthly fix of all that is good in speculative fiction.

After The Darkness: Episode Four    by SunHi Mistwalker
Price: $0.99 USD. 10250 words. Language: English. Published by Dark Tales Great Lives, LLC  on March 28, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic.
In a world of never-ending winters and permanent darkness, fourteen-year-old Nadia Comani faces a future of servitude. Can she free herself and her family?

War Fish - A Military Science Fiction Short    by Terry Mixon
Price: $2.99 USD. 6620 words. Language: English. Published on June 2, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Military.
People thought war would end once mankind made it into space. Idiots. Once the fighting started, subspace ships took the brunt, sinking ships from hiding. Deadly dangerous work. When the USS Flasher surprised an enemy task force, Ray Honeycutt knew they might die, but they could strike a blow to end the war, if they sank that carrier. If they were smart and lucky. Could they do it and live?

The Man Who Stole History - A Time Travel Alternate History Short    by Terry Mixon
Price: $2.99 USD. 6900 words. Language: English. Published on June 2, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure.
Orphaned by the Temporal Corp’s indifference, Cahill turned to a life of crime. Using the secret files of his father—an investigative historian—he convinced a powerful criminal to steal a treasure lost to history. When he got there, things were not as they seemed. He had the chance to right a terrible wrong. Was he willing to risk his own past to commit the grandest larceny in history?

The Hundredth Year of the War    by Amy Parker
Price: $0.99 USD. 4070 words. Language: English. Published on May 24, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
(5.00 from 1 review)
After one hundred years of war, it had all become very simple. Patriotism and loyalty were good, and wasting compassion on the Enemy, pale blue aliens with golden eyes, was bad. Even children could grasp that. Except for Marlene, who wanted to know why.

Bug House    by Amy Parker
Price: $0.99 USD. 4500 words. Language: English. Published on May 24, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
(5.00 from 1 review)
No one can predict how much of your mind comes back after a delirium bomb attack. How much memory, how much sanity. All Wren can do is lie in bed and hope. But there's something strange in the hospital, creeping around the edge of her unreliable senses. With the help of a mysterious janitor, Wren has to face giant insects and the treachery of her own mind.

Konstantin: A Short Story    by Beth Powers
Price: $0.99 USD. 3190 words. Language: American English. Published on May 23, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
(5.00 from 1 review)
When his brother falls for a pretty face and unwittingly lets a threat on board, it is up to Konstantin to stop the hacker before it is too late. There's just one problem—Konstantin is the ship, with his brain hardwired to its systems. By attacking the ship's computer, the hacker is attacking him, and in order to gain complete control, she just might have to shut him down for good.

For Want of a Nail    by Mary Robinette Kowal
Price: $0.99 USD. 12340 words. Language: English. Published on April 28, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
(4.75 from 4 reviews)
This is the 2011 Hugo award-winning short story, "For Want of a Nail" with some bonus content. Read the author's notes, along with the original first draft which has a completely different plot.

In the Line of Duty    by M.C.A. Hogarth
Price: $0.99 USD. 4770 words. Language: English. Published on September 23, 2010. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
(4.50 from 4 reviews)
When the UAV Scattersky answers a distress call, their captain is expecting a routine rescue operation and dispatches his first commander, Alysha Forrest, to manage the transfer of personnel. But naturally, things are never as easy as they seem on the surface.... This short story won the 2003 Ursa Majors Award for Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction, and was originally published in Anthrolations.

The Case of the Poisoned House and Other Xenopsychiatric Studies    by M.C.A. Hogarth
Price: $1.99 USD. 9690 words. Language: English. Published on April 3, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Jahir and Vasiht'h are xenopsychiatrists: specialists in counseling aliens on the varied problems they might face living on a multicultural starbase. This volume collects eight vignettes and one short story ranging from a solar sailor recovering from a crash to an orphaned alien struggling with adoption issues. Come tour the Alliance, therapist-style!