As the Crow Flies — Dave Hutchinson

Colonists struggle to terraform Mars . a seedy psychiatrist finds himself locked in combat with a psychopath . sightseeing aliens decide to visit one of the worst places on Earth . a teacher's past catches up with him in an unimaginable way . and a Special Forces assassin finds a bizarre kind of redemption in an English wood. Only five of the fifteen short stories in this collection to challenge the reader and stretch imagination to the limits.