The Captain's Jolting Tales #1

Arlington Hammer, driven by the memory of his parents’ murder, prowls the night as a hunter of vampires—until the hunt turns on him. On a quiet shift, Officer Phil Soules responds to a call that leads him into a dark alley, where a chance encounter with a mysterious woman spirals into a deadly transformation.

In the red dust of an uncharted Martian wasteland, Commander Zero and his Science Officer, Ms. Luna Clone, fight to survive after their ship crashes far from the Earth Colony. Trapped with limited air and hunted by the harsh planet, they’re approached by Oxnox 3, a shrewd Marti trader who trades a map to the nearest Earth Base for their weapons—though he’s not quite honest about what they’ll find there.

Millie and Billie’s moonlit swim in the woods starts as a carefree adventure, but a prank gone wrong turns the water into a deadly trap. As the night grows darker, the girls must fight not just the cold and the current, but something far more sinister lurking beneath the surface.

In "A Boomerang Effect," a greedy collector's theft of a sacred Australian tribal boomerang sets off a chain of events that defies logic and justice. When the artifact's magic brings him back to the tribe he wronged, he must confront the consequences of his actions in a place where tradition holds more power than any law.