Flashes in the Pan, Fifty Short Stories for the Impatient, by Raymond Grant is a pithy little book that should be onboard when you’re waiting around killing time. During such an exasperating moment, read a short story…let your spirit soar.
 
“Flashes… serves up fifty tasty stories for busy readers on the go. Raymond Grant has organized his brief stories into categories to whet your appetite… Grant obviously takes pleasure in writing …There is something here for every reader.” Review by Esther Schrader, editor of Twisted Cat Tales, author of Desparate Straits and The Shadow People.

All reality depends on frame of reference; what if one moment you were walking across a college campus or down a busy city street and the next you were fighting for your life in land where dark magic prevailed, the edge of sword determined if you lived or died, and your fate was linked to fate of an alien world?

Kings, Lords, and generals are winding up dead, all from the same cause. When Lord Zodiac and one of his wives are found dead, Samantha discovers that a clever assassin is at work. Being young and full of raging hormones, she is not the best choise to hunt the killer down. Her demonic looks and the occasional flare of temper makes her a rather poor choise. However, she is the only one who can ’feel’ the assassin’s presence.

To add to her difficulties, her father is made the new King, and her family is scattered across the land to bring order to the rising chaos. A neighboring Kingdom also sees their plight as an oppertunity to extend their land. Samantha must not only find the assassin, but a way to avert war, and root out the one responsible. All while she desperatly searches for a man to understand her.