No End to the Universe

By K. S. Stroeter

What happens when our world collides with others?These six short stories invite you to take a look.SPHERESam Parker rents apartment 301 while on a lucrative investigation. When he finds a valuable and sinister artifact there, he is visited by a mysterious man that seems to be involved in the case he's working on. After that, strange things starts to happen around him.A VOICE IN THE DARKA boy and a man ride through a desert that seems to be infinite, fleeing a colossal storm. The mission is to cross the desert, impossible without rest and supplies for the horses. Luck appears when they find a stop post with a hatch that leads down to the ground, where there can be water and food. And danger.THE CHOICE OF THE CHAIRDoris is sitting in the left armchair of the living room. The one on the right was her husband's, and it was empty because he didn't wake up that Sunday morning. Arnold was eighty-seven years old. She, eighty-five. Afraid and not knowing what to do next, feeling alone for the first time in decades, Doris continues with her morning routine until a dark and terrible figure appears in the empty chair to her left. He wants her to make a choice.ARDENNES 1945In 1944, a German attack takes the Allied troops by surprise in the forest region of Belgium, sending soldiers with no combat experience to the frontlines. One of these men is Thomas Collins. On his second day in Ardennes, he is recruited by a major and a lieutenant to go on a secret mission. In the middle of forests covered by thick layers of snow, he sees and feels things that are impossible to explain, but he tries to do so by writing a letter during the last years of his life. A difficult story to tell, as it details how a Nazi soldier ended up saving his life.ELEVATORA receptionist falls asleep at her desk during the last hours of her shift. She wakes up to find the building locked, trapping her inside. Alone in the dark, she begins to hear a cry for help. It is coming from the service elevator.NO END TO THE UNIVERSELuca Verga wakes up disoriented inside a spacecraft, his head hurts and he feels weak. He doesn't know exactly where he is or what he's doing there, but when he opens the small window on the plastic wall to his right, he sees the infinity of space and the lifeless surface of the moon. He now needs to get out of the destroyed spacecraft, get inside the lunar station, and survive an entity unknown to mankind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08J22RRZG
• ISBN13: 9798685004536
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"