A lone figure walks a desolate beach. Heart cold and worn. Gun empty.
Behind him the war of all wars destroys humankind. Before him lies the ocean.
Cold. Harsh. Vast. Ageless.
“The Black Marker at the End of Time” is in the Beneath the Waves collection. You can learn more on BundleRabbit, Goodreads, and the collection’s Facebook page.
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Ron Collins is an Amazon best-selling Dark Fantasy author who writes across the spectrum of speculative fiction.
His latest science fiction series, Stealing the Sun is available from Skyfox publishing.
His fantasy series Saga of the God-Touched Mage reached #1 on Amazon’s bestselling dark fantasy list in the UK and #2 in the US. His short fiction has received a Writers of the Future prize and a CompuServe HOMer Award. His short story “The White Game” was nominated for the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s 2016 Derringer Award.
He has contributed a hundred or so short stories to professional publications such as Analog, Asimov’s, and several other magazines and anthologies (including several editions of the Fiction River Anthology Series).
He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has worked to develop avionics systems, electronics, and information technology before chucking it all to write full-time–which he now does from his home in the shadows of the Santa Catalina Mountains.
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