Weird Fantasy #8

In "It Didn't Matter," Arnold, the devoted assistant to a reclusive scientist, finds himself drawn to the man’s striking wife—only to discover her affection is a mask for greed and betrayal. When she schemes to kill her husband and frame Arnold, their plan takes a terrifying turn during a storm: the matter transporter, disrupted by lightning, leaves her horribly altered upon arrival.

In 1839, a slave ship sails the Atlantic, its crew brutal and desperate. When cornered by a coast guard vessel, they cast their chained human cargo into the sea—only to be captured in turn by alien beings, who then cast the crew into the void, still bound together.

In "The Enemies of the Colony," a group of colonists from the G.C.A. arrive on a distant planet after seven years in transit, eager to build a new life. They soon find themselves facing a world where the native Mokos—once thought to be mere subjects of their breeding experiments—challenge everything they believed about their mission, while the feared Hydro-Files reveal a truth far more complex than danger.