What Awaits?

By Ernie Gammage

A Finalist, Fiction: Short Story, in the 2022 Best Book Awards (American Book Fest) - sixteen strange, thoughtful stories for readers of speculative and literary short fiction.

Speculative fiction asks one question: what if?

In What Awaits?, that question is asked by a lover, a murderer, a clairvoyant, a time traveler, a vampire, and the guy who ruined the world, among others. The man with the tattoo wants to know where it all went wrong. The girl with the graphene legs wants to know who was responsible. A man outside Mexico City wants Montezuma himself to give him the lowdown.

What they're all looking for are answers - to the past, the future, and the strange circumstances they find themselves in right now. Some like the answers they get. Some don't. Some want more. Some want it all to stop.
Sixteen stories, one restless imagination: from an award-winning songwriter and exhibited visual artist whose late-career turn to fiction has won praise from readers.

For adult and new adult readers. Not appropriate for children.

If you enjoyed What Awaits?, don't miss After the Before, Ernie Gammage's post-apocalyptic novel praised by Readers' Favorite and Literary Titan, available on Kindle and in paperback.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09ZR1P9M5
• ISBN13: 9798423711283
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"