The Engineer
Reading Time: 7 minutes “Theirs is not to question why. Theirs is but to do and die.”
Reading Time: 7 minutes As the 45th president of the United States, Daniel Van Dorien has encountered the only obstacle to completing his plan for his country’s future. When an unknown Goddess is reawakened in the White House, the president’s pursuit of enlightenment will shift the nation’s future as a super-power.
Reading Time: 12 minutes If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Reading Time: 17 minutes In a world where it is illegal to be unhealthy, a young doctor must choose between her heart and the career she’s fought so hard for…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Centred on the Igbo Mmanwu Festival, Chinaza’s words dance between the past and present, capturing the essence of family ties and spirituality of this time of year.
Reading Time: 7 minutes It was the plague that kept on giving; now it’s giving advice.
Reading Time: 26 minutes Cosmic horrors await an astronomer on a solo observing run.
Reading Time: 26 minutes
Penny Dreadful meets American Gods.
A literary, romantic, dark-horror that immerses you in an alternate San Francisco inhabited by old gods, gold rush madams, Sally Hemings, and vampires.
Reading Time: 4 minutes An unusual rendezvous takes place in outer space. The synthetic creature known as Honeybee brings a young man’s soul to her lover, an entity called the Blot. Yet Honeybee begins to question her relationship with the Blot after it treats her poorly.
Reading Time: 17 minutes A ballerina who’s always dreamed of the spotlight finds herself in the shadows when she makes a dangerous deal with a ghost.
Reading Time: 17 minutes What happens when meeting the star of your favorite childhood show and everything goes awry?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new take on the traditional space aliens arrive on Earth story – I hope you like it!
Reading Time: 9 minutes An exploration of that arcane quantum realm where one skids and slides between decision.
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is an excerpt from a poetic novel by author Odera Darka. She writes with the same flavor as James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
Reading Time: 12 minutes Not all people shopping in a store are what they seem to be…..
Reading Time: 5 minutes 27th of August, 2086
Even in the future, you can’t take tomorrow for granted.
Reading Time: 4 minutes A small rebel cadre secretly endeavors to bring the “human” back to humanity.
Reading Time: 8 minutes Paul must escape a case of mistaken identity in a sci fi con.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gertrude haunts an office chair at night. But how to get rid of a slightly-annoying ghost?
Reading Time: 12 minutes A Shingon Buddhist successfully accomplishes Sokushinbutsu, the practice self-mummification. Once achieved, however, what initially appears to be confirmation of that philosophy turns out to be something quite unexpected.
Reading Time: 3 minutes First generation rock’n roll. The influence of way too many 60s sitcoms. Mix it into a drink and…is this story the drunk or hangover? Who knows – but I hope everyone loves it!
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Reading Time: 4 minutes In the battle of man’s stomach versus his immortal soul, the stomach wins every time.
Reading Time: 11 minutes Tom might not have emotions but he has brains and creativity that go a long way managing timeless evil.
Reading Time: 24 minutes A recent member of Faerie’s nouveau riche attempts to get his hands on an elusive status symbol but in the process gets a little more than he bargained for.
Reading Time: 12 minutes Is having everything you have ever wanted or desired as good as it is supposed to be? What if it is more of a curse than a blessing?
Reading Time: 19 minutes When Hanna gets her acceptance letter to magic school, she’s willing to risk everything, including her gift, to join the ranks of the Guild.
Reading Time: 12 minutes A young girl befriends a mysterious and somewhat grotesque boy who, unbeknownst to anyone else, has taken up residence in her family’s home.
Reading Time: 25 minutes An undead assassin for an alternate historical Aztec empire pursues a rebel cult leader across a speeding train. To accomplish his mission, he must overcome not only dangerous enemies, but the truth of his own nature as well.
Reading Time: 12 minutes She promised to wait for Jonas Romany. Using his education heartbroken Jonas found a way to hurt the entire community because the mosquitoes were taking too long to do the job.
Reading Time: 14 minutes A young boy in San Francisco’s Chinatown faces a fearsome monster emerging straight out of ancient Chinese legend.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Future scientists try to avert a devastating plague which will take place in year 2020 by sending Zeitnauts back to 2019 to alert world governments.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Marta understands. She talks me out of my depression. It’s not like I’m a merchant banker. I’m not a CEO for an Armament Firm or Fossil Fuel Company, she says. I don’t send kids off to war or lobby politicians. I’m not a full time monster like those guys, just part time.
Reading Time: 6 minutes A man who’s forgotten everything knows only that he should stay in motion.
Reading Time: 17 minutes There’s something strange about the lake near Lester Tarbell’s vacation cabin. Whatever is in it makes Lester just as strange.
Reading Time: 22 minutes In Venice of dreams, a woman struggles through a nightmare and saves the city by damning herself.
Reading Time: 20 minutes Bodgen, a genius scientist (just ask him) from Romania, has received a fantastical letter from America, a most assuredly made-up place, that claims he has a long, lost brother who is coming for a visit. Bodgen doesn’t believe a word of it, of course.
Reading Time: 25 minutes In 1958, a young editor corresponds with a veteran science-fiction writer.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The five second burst of sound cycled over and over, breaking against his thoughts like waves against a levy, overwhelming him, washing him away.
Reading Time: 8 minutes The hardest working mage who ever lived will do anything to pass his English exam.
Reading Time: 4 minutes One can spend an entire lifetime searching for something, only to find it lies just beyond your grasp – and your lifetime has vanished in the blink of an eye.
Reading Time: 11 minutes What happens below decks, stays below decks in this horror/humor mashup of the biblical account of Noah’s ark and the doomed voyage of the Demeter in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rosie O’Connell smelled only dust where once there had been life.
Reading Time: 5 minutes She was eight when her body rotted away. A virus. They were able to save her brain, and for the last ten years she’s been living inside an eight-year-old android body.
Reading Time: 15 minutes The creatures were out there, somewhere, waiting for him. But could one stranded human defeat hundreds of hungry aliens?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jenny hangs the traps every sunset. She measures the string against her arm and wraps it twice around each jar tied with a double knot. She hangs them from the strongest branches of the big dead oak on Hangman’s Hill.
Reading Time: 6 minutes A money-grubbing politician usurps the limited resources of the town they just burned to the ground. The Boatmen has another idea.