“Burn it alive!” Adan said, throwing down his vial of living flame. He forged Elijah in his own image—ruthless, cunning, cruel. “The gods smile on me differently than they do on you.” Possibilities were endless in the nine levels of this magnificent city. These lines are from just a few of the 16 imaginative tales of sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, horror, action-adventure, mystery, dystopia, and the unknown throughout Otherworldly Volume 2. Diverse genre fiction authors are together in a single collection to bring you short stories that will explore worlds old, new, yet-to-come, and imagined. Shadowhearts, curses, and cats who take mysterious forms. A meal that fills you up, but makes you wonder. Space truckers, a falling sky, and a dust-filled apocalypse. A human-like machine and a machine-like human. Ancient sites and Nordic curses. And what genre fiction collection would be complete without dragons? Immerse yourself in these awesome page-turners! For a second year, the fiction of award winning, bestselling, and critically acclaimed independent and traditionally-published authors from around the nation, with combined published works totaling over a thousand, is in a genre fiction anthology hosted by Nerd Street, one of the nation’s top pop culture event organizations. Enjoy single-seating reads of great stories and discover your next favorite author! With genre fiction tales by: Jeri Shepherd "Red" Shepherd, T.R. Nickel, Christopher D. Schmitz, Ivy Ru, Joe Prosit, David Sklenicka, Jeff Couch, Darby Harn, Justin Rose, Dennis Vogen, Michael Bernabo, Susan Stradiotto, Douglas Van Dyke Jr., Jared Bartemeyer, Amanda Meuwissen, and Ben Wolf