Tales Told ‘Round Celestial Campfires Volume 3 – Paperback

Five stories. Five frontiers of reality, memory, and the unknown.

In this gripping five-story anthology, five distinct journeys explore the outer limits of scientific ambition, human emotion, and cosmic consequence:

The Absolute Limit of Sound – When a near-atomic blast vaporizes an oceanographic station on a remote Brazilian island, a government investigator discovers a barren wasteland and a single blood-sealed vault. Inside lie the final notes of a billionaire’s dying son-revealing a secret project designed to alter humanity forever.

Chrysalis – Relentlessly hunted by grotesque horrors in a surreal nightmare world, Gerrold’s desperate bid for survival seems impossible-until an ethereal being named Acquiesce offers him a way out. But escape always comes at a price.

Cicatrix – A mathematician’s equations reshape reality-opening a door that swings both ways, and changing our reality triggers unavoidable shifts in another.

Jerry and Betty – An astronaut returns from an alien world with buried memories of an unfathomable culture. As forgotten moments slowly resurface, he is forced to confront a civilization built on codes completely foreign to human understanding.

Meteor Man – Grieving the loss of his wife, a xenolinguist travels to a distant asteroid to examine a suspected extraterrestrial site. Inside the anomaly, he discovers that non-human emotions run deeper than our own-and learns that human grief is far from the only pain echoing across the stars.

From cataclysmic discoveries to deep psychological labyrinths, these five tales challenge the boundaries of reality, connection, and what it truly means to be human.

(note from the author: only one reader comment is genuine (thank you Clarabelle). The rest are gleaned from the hundreds of marketing emails I got (probably from non-human bots) once I announced this anthology’s release. Hey, use ’em or lose ’em. Got ’em for free, use ’em freely)