Neal F Litherland

The Rejects Neal F Litherland

Whenever you pick up an anthology, the short stories you see are only a fraction of the ones that were originally in the running. Dozens, and in some cases more than a hundred, other stories fought to get onto those pages. But one by one they fell, left behind on the cutting room floor. The stories in this collection are the ones that have refused to die. So why not crack the cover, and see for yourself these tales that have never appeared in print before? Discover what lurks beneath the Abattoir Bridge in "Bloody Bones," or sit down for a friendly game of cards with a mysterious, green-eyed gambler in "Dead Man's Bluff". Find out what sort of monsters prey on the innocents in the abandoned alleys of Chicago in "Dressing The Flesh," and follow a last-ditch recon team as they try to save the world from a nuclear-powered super man in "Assault on Olympus". If you like your stories scrappy, with a side of the fantastical, then there is definitely something between these covers that will stick with you.