Cheap Thrills Digest — Michael C. Bailey

Innsmouth Look Publishing invites you to explore the worlds of author Michael Bailey in this collection of short stories and a previously unreleased novelette-length story.

Action Figures - An Adventure in Babysitting

Protecting the innocent? That's easy. Taking down crazed super-villains? No problem. Babysitting the youngest member of the super-team the Quantum Quintet, a little boy whose temper tantrums can level a city block? That could prove the toughest challenge yet for the teen superhero known as Lightstorm.

(Previously published on author's website and in Action Figures - Issue Three: Pasts Imperfect)

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - Ill Fortune, Undeserved

Track down a small band of Hruk raiders, recover the valuable family heirloom they stole, and bring it back in one piece.

It sounded like an easy enough job for the hard-luck adventuring team of Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot, but as always, nothing is ever as easy as it first seems, and it doesn't take long for their find-and-recover mission to turn into a hack-and-slash fight for survival.

(Previously published in The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - Scratching a Lich)

Lost Souls

An innocent day trip takes a bizarre turn when former reporter Max Jeffers discovers a second-rate tourist attraction's secret star: an allegedly real vampire. Fascinated by the strange woman, Max sets out to discover the truth about her -- but will the truth set either of them free, or will it condemn them both to prisons of their own making?

(Previously unpublished, exclusive to Cheap Thrills Digest)