Expiration Date(2015)

Kelley Armstrong

Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates. Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events: when a species goes extinct; when a body of water evaporates, or dies because the PH balance alters; when giant icebergs break apart and glaciers melt forever, threatening the ecosystem of this planet.
Nancy Kilpatrick has gathered together twenty-five original stories by Kelley Armstrong; Nancy Holder & Erin Underwood; Steve and Melanie Tem; Lois Gresh; Gar and Judy Reeves-Stevens; Daniel Sernine; Paul Kane; Sephera Giron; Kathryn Ptacek; Steve Vernon and others to look at the what-if’s of our expiring future.
These stories span a range of emotions. Some will make you laugh, other will make you cry. They are grim and hopeful, sad and joyous, horrifying and comforting. You can expect to be touched in some way.

Introduction by Nancy Kilpatrick

NEGOTIATING OBLIVION
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word by Kelley Armstrong
Banshee by Daniel Sernine (translation by Sheryl Curtis)
Riding Shotgun by Elaine Pascale
The Twenty Seven Club by J. M. Frey
Trinity Death by Steve Vernon
What I Said to Richie was… by Ken Goldman
To Dance, Perchance to Die by David McDonald
Death Doll by Lois H. Gresh

RESISTING EXTINCTION
The Long Wait by R. B. Payne
That Brightness by Mary E. Choo
Night Market by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
Sooner by Morgan Dambergs
The Great Inevitable by Patricia Flewwelling
In a Moment by Christine Steendam
Death Drives a Cordoba by Ryan McFadden
Prison Break by Tobin Elliott
This Strange Way of Dying by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Deaths of Jeremiah Colverson by George Wilhite

BEST BEFORE / BEST AFTER
The Shadow of Death by Paul Kane
An Inspector Calls by Rebecca Bradley
What Would Lizzie Do? by Sèphera Girón
Ashes to Ashes by Amy Grech
The Greyness by Kathryn Ptacek
things in jars by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Right of Survivorship by Nancy Holder and Erin Underwood