A Darker World
Reading Time: 6 minutesTechnology allows us to revisit the most cherished moments of our lives. But is that a good thing?
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The Fool’s Fiddle
Reading Time: 18 minutesDragons can’t lie, right? That’s what the legends say. So, when Guy finds himself at the wrong end of a failed heist, he puts that knowledge to the test. Compatriots dead. Hope gone. And his last chance at life is convincing a dragon to let him go.
Willow Prentiss
Reading Time: 5 minutesGuilt, melancholy, and the lost soul of a love form the basis of this twist on the paranormal/magical romance.
The Wreck of the Lorelei
Reading Time: 21 minutesTrapped in an experiment in faster-than-light space travel, the captain of the ship searches for what went wrong.
Freedreamers
Reading Time: 18 minutesIn the future, our dreams are mass entertainment … or a weapon of mass destruction.
Patient Diplomacy
Reading Time: 4 minutesA first contact story about the idea that before anything else, perhaps they have to test for biological compatibility.
Confederate Cavalry on a Plane
Reading Time: 15 minutesA physics professor and his student on a plane argue about the possibility of infinite alternate universes, while being robbed blind by a bratty kid. The professor bets the student that even the most unlikely event possible must happen, leading to three very confused Confederate Cavalry charging down the aisle.
Talent & Culture
Reading Time: 4 minutesA distant relation is bequeathed to someone whose tenuous employment on the outskirts of humanity makes him a less than ideal custodian.
Stone Cold Beauty
Reading Time: 4 minutesTotally narcissistic, Electra loved admiring her herself in the mirror. One day a wish turned her to stone gazing in a mirror at herself for eternity. She was mostly happy with this situation, until her old, dying husband visits her and gets a wish of his own.
Home Delivery
Reading Time: 10 minutesDesperate for cash, Nick and his friend plot a home invasion. They picked the wrong house.
Táltos
Reading Time: 4 minutesA Hungarian folktale about young girl seeking to rectify injustice done to her sisters.
Affordable Resurrection
Reading Time: 6 minutesLightly amusing modern-feel fantasy mashup about an unlikely partnership between a budget-price necromancer and his student locked in an unusual business model.
Why the Sea is Boiling Hot
Reading Time: 21 minutesA serial killer is playing havoc in the city-state of Sheebatiya. Can Allii uncover the killer before fear pushes the city into anarchy?
Naughty or Nice?
Reading Time: 5 minutesA vampire, attempting to adapt to Western customs, sends her Christmas list to Santa.
Timestealer
Reading Time: 6 minutesTimestealing is an art. And a business. And a service. A good timestealer can predict what the next best-seller will be – most of the time.
Half-baked Hero
Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen Janza, a bodyguard-for-hire meets a suspicious merchant, her personal code and memories of the oppression suffered by her people battle for her soul.
Counterfeit
Reading Time: 4 minutesA quick collision of rich space junk collectors, and an expert counterfeiter.
Thumbing to Sugar Daddy Oberon
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn spite of interfering adults, a spoiled child is determined to claim her birthright in the court of Oberon and Titania.
The Visitation
Reading Time: 8 minutesA secret government organization is fighting an unknown, but strange enemy.
What You Will Find at a Memory Auction
Reading Time: 4 minutesA young man can no longer afford to keep all his memories. How will he decide which ones to keep? And he’s running out of time.
Robin’s Last Song
Reading Time: 21 minutesAfter her technological tool failed to warn the world of the sudden loss of birds on the planet, a self-exiled blind elder who has Aspergers and suffers from dysphonia, finds new hope in the field of soundscape ecology.
Take Away The Tears
Reading Time: 4 minutesConscripted Lieutenant Lovemore Vulgaris has been instructed to design the people of the future, and he’s not messing around.
Harvesting Souls
Reading Time: 10 minutesA young woman faces her vengeful parents returning from the dead.
Bed Bugs
Reading Time: 10 minutesA couple unknowingly house a blood-sucking parasite under their bed.
Her Night Off
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter a chance encounter and a night of passion in Manhattan, a woman must choose between her responsibility and her heart.
Eight Legs Under Moonlight
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn a Victorian town plagued by werespiders, a curious spinster takes in a mysterious woman.
One Winter Night
Reading Time: 5 minutesA young girl, determined to catch Santa in the act, waits impatiently with a list of her own.
And the Fires Burned
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe town of Boyerville is covered in smoke from a nearby fire. Officially, the fire was started by accident, but the townspeople suspect otherwise.
What We Hold On To
Reading Time: 13 minutesA mother and her young daughter fight to survive in a world ravaged by an ongoing world war between megacorporations.
Forever 51
Reading Time: 12 minutesNovel excerpt: Veronica is eternally fifty-one years old with a proclivity for problematic drinking. Like most hormonally-challenged women negotiating the change of life, she is a hot mess. To retain her sanity, she attends weekly AA meetings and adheres to a strict diet of organic, locally-sourced, (mostly) cruelty-free human blood from the hospice facility where she works.
The Nocturnality of Dorian Salva
Reading Time: 17 minutesDorian Salva is an artist with a consuming passion for birds. One night, his work-in-progress takes on an eerie life of its own, and the relationship between artist and subject, painter and painted, undergoes an uncanny reversal.
Goulash for a Ghoul
Reading Time: 5 minutesA fractured fable and a meal served up in a haunted castle.
Table 19
Reading Time: 17 minutesA woman tries to intervene with the fate of a young barista, but fate will not be cheated.
Clowns In The Woods
Reading Time: 31 minutesAn anxious young man gets more than he bargained for when he accompanies his fiance’s family on a hunting trip.
333 Years
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere we have an unexpected intersection of past and present when Fate takes a hand to switch things up.
The Wellington Methodology
Reading Time: 10 minutesScience fiction meets gothic in this story of a groundbreaking discovery gone wrong, and the horrifying fall of the titular scientist.
Betty And The Demon
Reading Time: 17 minutesWhen Irish-born Father Donahey retires to Winterset, he finds the community is awash with supernatural creatures, some friendly, many decidedly not.
Come the Waters High
Reading Time: 4 minutesA flash fantasy story about a High Priestess who must deal with rising tides that threaten to drown her people.
She Kept the House
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this spooky flash story, a woman haunts her own house after a messy breakup.
From Below
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn the aftermath of a climate apocalypse, Jeremy and Alex survive by supplying food to the wealthy people living above the water, in the penthouses of Old Manhattan. But the wealthy aren’t the only ones that are hungry.