It began as just another day for David Spires and his wife Tracy: coffee, breakfast, and getting the kids ready for school. Then the bottom dropped out of civilization.

The first in the PS Showcase range - novella-length collection of short stories from some of genre fiction's best up-and-coming writers.

Wade Crawford is not a good guy. He's a bank robber and a ruthless killer, and now three people are dead and Wade is on the run. With the cops hot on his heels, he breaks into a seemingly ordinary house in a seemingly ordinary neighborhood to hide and wait on word from his partner. But this neigh...

Butch Quick never looks for trouble, but trouble has a way of finding him, and when a dead prostitute and a foul-mouthed Macaw turn a routine repo job into another misadventure, he'd better be ready for it. Tonight the streets of Paradise Valley are crawling with scumbags, and they are all on the...