A collection of short stories by various authors (incl me) for Hypnovember that was assembled on Lauren’s discord and published here for wider enjoyment!

After failing her most recent mission, Luca comes back to Euphrates Base with her tail between her legs and heads to her handler to be punished. Her personal doctor has other ideas.

It’s not as painful as it looks.

Sven had always been able to coast to success, but all that has ended now that he’s struggling with his flight training at Earthfleet’s Space Academy. In desperation, he turns to a secret experimental treatment, but soon finds the treatment will cause new struggles of its own.

Erased of both his manhood and his heritage, Julian masters the ability to remake his female body into any woman. He engineers a campaign of raw seduction and gentle intimacy to destroy his rival and deceive his ex, risking his own identity in the process.

Reporter Kell Harvies is back home to interview alien expert Dr. Clement Winsley, but she knows—or thinks she knows—that he faked the UFO sighting of the previous spring that propelled his work to stardom. But maybe he knows what “really” happened, and maybe he plans to tell her.

A girl finds a ship tucked away in the heart of a space station.

An undercover investigative journalist at a suspicious factory is pulled off the line by security and taken to a small soundproofed room. The following does not go entirely according to plan.

An alien entity controls Xander.

An editor gets hired by a mad scientist and works alongside her flirty assistant, encountering many perils and sexual workplace violations along the way.

Dave’s got a cool new headset, and nothing could possibly go wrong, especially when he wanders into a public wi-fi network.

An android with what are most politely described as body control issues should, by all rights, pay a bonus to her mechanic. She won’t be doing so.

A man gets a job at a new factory, but the product has more mental and physical effects than he bargained for.

The crew serving on the Vanguard–the fleet’s flagship–knew they were the best of the best, so no one could believe the rumors of a conspiracy threatening the ship. They should have listened!

Kelly and Tiana run into a little technical trouble taking Kelly’s new ship out for a ride, but what may begin as a crisis may become an opportunity neither of them can resist…

National debate champion Asher Warren relies on her undeniable genius. But when a petty dispute threatens her scholarship, Asher faces a terrifying mental affliction that defies every scientific fact she knows.

A Magical Girl, still shaken by her best friend’s disappearance, is abducted by aliens who mean to corrupt her into their willing enforcer.

Former imperial pilot Lark risks it all to save Aoi Tarowaka, one of her new comrades, in a mission gone wrong. Meanwhile, ace rebel Nataliza Rayfield wakes up in hell, prompting a rescue mission that’ll change her comrades’ lives forever… …Bailey Cluanaire’s most of all.

Dr. Helen Kraft’s revolutionary neural implant can eliminate violent impulses, but the state demands human trials her failing startup cannot afford. Desperate for the data, Helen faces an impossible choice to keep her company and project alive.