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END features stories about the end of the world from indie publishing's rising stars. The Mayan Calendar ends on December 21st, 2012, and some people believe that heralds apocalypse. What better way to go out than with a collection of shocking, thrilling, and sexy stories?
In Kendall Grey's LÁ BREITHE, humble Irish trader Fynn McKenna wakes up in a field surrounded by burnt bodies. Fear for his wife's safety spurs him on a desperate journey to find her. With no recollection of what happened or where he is, he welcomes the companionship of a glib bard who joins him along the way. But, as each returning memory becomes more vivid and horrific than the last, Fynn fears neither he nor his new friend is exactly what he seems.
If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you sleep with a stranger tonight? Amelia James's sensual LAST NIGHT IN VEGAS explores love at the end of days.
Trapped on a dying Earth, Eden must decide to flee with a man she hardly knows or stand her ground as it crumbles below her feet in Angela Kulig's A STARSHOT IN HELL.
Morgan McCoy's WHIMPER brings us to a world put to sleep by power-hungry psychics. When all the survivors have special abilities, who will end up taking control of what's left?
In DESTROYER OF WORLDS, Dennis Sharpe shows us that sometimes there can be forces at play in our world that are larger and more powerful than those that can end all of existence. Even the seemingly most insignificant of lives can have an enormous impact on the world, and every living creature. Death isn’t always the end, and to some even an apocalypse can be little more than a means to an end.
Ron Vitale's SUCH SINNERS WE ARE plays out the last few hours before the world goes out with a bang. Before all hell breaks loose with the light and dark side claiming souls, Tommy stumbles upon the power to see who is damned or saved. With precious little time left and the FBI chasing after him, he learns that he is one of the damned. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, all depends on Tommy's final choice.
All proceeds from sales of this anthology benefit a charity that funds children's cancer research.
In Kendall Grey's LÁ BREITHE, humble Irish trader Fynn McKenna wakes up in a field surrounded by burnt bodies. Fear for his wife's safety spurs him on a desperate journey to find her. With no recollection of what happened or where he is, he welcomes the companionship of a glib bard who joins him along the way. But, as each returning memory becomes more vivid and horrific than the last, Fynn fears neither he nor his new friend is exactly what he seems.
If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you sleep with a stranger tonight? Amelia James's sensual LAST NIGHT IN VEGAS explores love at the end of days.
Trapped on a dying Earth, Eden must decide to flee with a man she hardly knows or stand her ground as it crumbles below her feet in Angela Kulig's A STARSHOT IN HELL.
Morgan McCoy's WHIMPER brings us to a world put to sleep by power-hungry psychics. When all the survivors have special abilities, who will end up taking control of what's left?
In DESTROYER OF WORLDS, Dennis Sharpe shows us that sometimes there can be forces at play in our world that are larger and more powerful than those that can end all of existence. Even the seemingly most insignificant of lives can have an enormous impact on the world, and every living creature. Death isn’t always the end, and to some even an apocalypse can be little more than a means to an end.
Ron Vitale's SUCH SINNERS WE ARE plays out the last few hours before the world goes out with a bang. Before all hell breaks loose with the light and dark side claiming souls, Tommy stumbles upon the power to see who is damned or saved. With precious little time left and the FBI chasing after him, he learns that he is one of the damned. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, all depends on Tommy's final choice.
All proceeds from sales of this anthology benefit a charity that funds children's cancer research.
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March 12, 2014
This book may leave you completely depressed, though I think that was the point. If the world ends in 2012, you're really going to wish you read this book first.
June 10, 2012
The only complaint I had about this collection was that I wasn't done with it when I was out of pages. I didn't want it to be over.
August 12, 2013
As there are six tales in this particular anthology I decided to cut it in half and talk a little about three of the stories ranging from ones I kinda liked to my favorite so as to give the best overall representation of the anthology without delving into every story:
3. Such Sinners We Are – I’m not usually one for spiritual pieces, it has nothing to do with my personal beliefs, just that talking about what’s in them seems to always end in conflict one way or another and I try to avoid that if possible. Such Sinners We Are by Ron Vitale discusses one of the most common apocalyptic scenarios, a good vs. evil battle to claim humanity. The story is told from the point of view of Tommy who is given the ability to see whether people are good or evil and his inner battle to choose to give the power to his little sister or to give into temptation and use it for his own sake. The writing style itself is a bit all over the place in quality, I liked the first part where it seemed pretty clear what the perspective was and sounded like an actual person might (bonus points, seriously in apocalyptic stories especially it’s amazing how often this isn’t the case) but later on the writing got a bit simplistic/repetitive for my taste. I liked it, but I didn’t love it. Decent.
2. Whimper – If even the military can’t control those with powers things could get messy pretty quick. That is what the world shows in Whimper by Morgan McCoy where Levine, someone who has powers but that are defensive in nature, must try and finish the nightmare she’s been living for so long after Maggie, an offensive type, killed her brother. Even though it wasn’t Levine’s intent to do so, once she encounters Maggie that’s all that is left to do, but does she have the strength? Whimper jumps repeatedly back and forth between the past, when Levine’s brother Nathaniel was alive, and the present as she trudges on through the remains of the world. While that takes some getting used to the writing is compelling and the parts about the military are thought provoking. Solid.
1. A Starshot in Hell – An example of what humanity might become at the end of the Earth, ruthless, with only the rich being able to survive. A classic way of looking at things, though not an untrue one, A Starshot in Hell by Angela Kulig shows the worst that humanity might do, stealing, plundering and abandoning their fellow people that are worse off then them to survive. Eden as the main character, one that remains on the charred Earth, is stoic and all but broken. Daniel, conversely, is sent from the ship (of the space variety of course) to rescue her as payment to her father, but can he convince her to leave what home she has left for a man she doesn’t know and a father who left her? A Starshot in Hell definitely made me want to read Kulig’s other works even more since this piece could have been 10 times as long and I would have ate it up. Very good.
Overall I thought END was a solid anthology with a good mix of established writers such as Grey and up and comers like McCoy. The stories were short but pretty good in quality overall, if you enjoy apocalyptic tales then this is a good easy read for you.
Rating: 3.5/5
3. Such Sinners We Are – I’m not usually one for spiritual pieces, it has nothing to do with my personal beliefs, just that talking about what’s in them seems to always end in conflict one way or another and I try to avoid that if possible. Such Sinners We Are by Ron Vitale discusses one of the most common apocalyptic scenarios, a good vs. evil battle to claim humanity. The story is told from the point of view of Tommy who is given the ability to see whether people are good or evil and his inner battle to choose to give the power to his little sister or to give into temptation and use it for his own sake. The writing style itself is a bit all over the place in quality, I liked the first part where it seemed pretty clear what the perspective was and sounded like an actual person might (bonus points, seriously in apocalyptic stories especially it’s amazing how often this isn’t the case) but later on the writing got a bit simplistic/repetitive for my taste. I liked it, but I didn’t love it. Decent.
2. Whimper – If even the military can’t control those with powers things could get messy pretty quick. That is what the world shows in Whimper by Morgan McCoy where Levine, someone who has powers but that are defensive in nature, must try and finish the nightmare she’s been living for so long after Maggie, an offensive type, killed her brother. Even though it wasn’t Levine’s intent to do so, once she encounters Maggie that’s all that is left to do, but does she have the strength? Whimper jumps repeatedly back and forth between the past, when Levine’s brother Nathaniel was alive, and the present as she trudges on through the remains of the world. While that takes some getting used to the writing is compelling and the parts about the military are thought provoking. Solid.
1. A Starshot in Hell – An example of what humanity might become at the end of the Earth, ruthless, with only the rich being able to survive. A classic way of looking at things, though not an untrue one, A Starshot in Hell by Angela Kulig shows the worst that humanity might do, stealing, plundering and abandoning their fellow people that are worse off then them to survive. Eden as the main character, one that remains on the charred Earth, is stoic and all but broken. Daniel, conversely, is sent from the ship (of the space variety of course) to rescue her as payment to her father, but can he convince her to leave what home she has left for a man she doesn’t know and a father who left her? A Starshot in Hell definitely made me want to read Kulig’s other works even more since this piece could have been 10 times as long and I would have ate it up. Very good.
Overall I thought END was a solid anthology with a good mix of established writers such as Grey and up and comers like McCoy. The stories were short but pretty good in quality overall, if you enjoy apocalyptic tales then this is a good easy read for you.
Rating: 3.5/5
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May 5, 2025Having gotten to read this book, at long last, in it's full glory... I have to say that I am a now a big fan of Angela Kulig, Ron Vitale, and even more a fan of Kendall Grey than I was before. Great job everyone. Thanks for putting it together Sara!
February 16, 2013
Great stories all.
Destroyer of worlds made me cry.
Destroyer of worlds made me cry.
February 21, 2013
My kudos to Kendall Grey, Dennis Sharpe, and Ron Vitale.
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