Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Survival, Howard Schneider and Mizeta Moon, Collected Short Fiction

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Survival

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Howard Schneider and Mizeta Moon

Survival is a collection of sixty-two very short stories (50 by Mizeta, 12 by Howard), some less than a single page, and three longer works. The collection leads off with Howard's post-apocalyptic story "Survival", a multi-chapter tale set in the year 2084 on the northwest coast of Canada. The final story, also a longer one by Howard, is "Dark Mountain", an adventure tale set in current time in the Colorado Rocky mountains where innocent mushroom hunters become entangled with a drug cartel gang and have to fight for their survival. The third longer piece is a futuristic time-travel story by Mizeta, "Long-Term Investment", with some unexpected twists and turns. The complete list of stories is: Survival, Seeking Romance Online, At The Return Counter, Intervention, Land, Gut Check, Peace At Last, Kicked To The Curb, Hitching A Ride, Alone Now, Detained, Final Contact, Infection, Cyborg Dating, Delivery, Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner, Dark Heart, Hanging On, Out for a Ride, Dead Coyote, Deluxe Cruise, New Girl At The Bar, Obviously Confused, Perceptions, The Bargain, Dead Man's Junction, Reunion, The Blind Bus Driver, Who Did You Used To Be?, Long-Term Investment, Tree Talk, Abandoned, Chasing Shadows, At The Bazaar, Death's Poet, Electricity, I Need A Ride, Absolute Joy, Cooking with a Vengeance, Confession, Welcome Back, Missing You, Revenge, Warmth, At the Old Folks' Home, Email, Razor Wire, Her Serenade, Two-Dollar Jim, Neighbors, Out Of Room, Not Good Enough, Relativity, Murderess, Random Shot, Strangers, Train Wreck, Undeserved Rewards, Victim Of Self-Abuse, Will It Ever Stop?, Her Time, In the Basement, Sheppie's Walk Time, and Dark Mountain

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