Fur
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen your species is prey, you can never let your guard down. Even when you’re walking home.
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All Those Perfect Moments
Reading Time: 12 minutesA sleepy town in rural Alabama holds many secrets, not all of them worth digging up.
The Haunting of Piedras Blancas
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis love story between a ghost and an alien is a mash-up of sci/fi, fantasy, and goth.
Dead Guy Walking
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe lines separating life, death, and laundry are thinner than you think.
Losing It
Reading Time: 15 minutesWhen the unsuspecting pharmacologist bumps into her former flame in a South London pub, she learns that the very future of the planet may depend on the outcome of her conversation with the drunken professor.
Masques
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a time when death is no longer final, how many ghosts walk among us?
The Beast
Reading Time: 4 minutesMarilia has a beast to conquer. It may not have scales or sharp teeth, but it’s just as terrifying all the same. Will this strange metal machine consume her, or will she find a glimmer of hope to hold onto?
Magic for Magic
Reading Time: 4 minutesLove is blind. It feels like a gift from heaven but when it is vengeful there is hell to pay.
Araceli’s Stars
Reading Time: 2 minutesTattoos. High-fantasy identities. Zeppelins. Magic. Diversity and Inclusion. Oppression. Hope.
From Out a Full-Orbed Moon
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe ghost of Edgar Allan Poe gets more than he bargained for.
The Thirteen Quixotic Temples of Light and Darkness
Reading Time: 30 minutesA young woman purchases a set of beads from an old crone and the adventure of her life begins.
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Deify
Reading Time: 4 minutesGrace is a cult survivor who is called to identify the body of her former cult’s leader and captor.
FRIENDSHIP
Reading Time: 10 minutesA lonely alien seeks friendship and fulfillment at an Alaska farmers market.
Quantum Forever
Reading Time: 3 minutesA particle traveling from the beginning of time to the end and back contemplates the balance between hope and fate. Though powerless to control its direction, the particle still has choices.
Three Centuries. Same Radio.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen reaching out to the stars above, the space beyond or the ether, we allocate disproportionate energy into preparing to cast the nets over catching the fish. What do we do with it?
Hyacinth
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe allure of prospecting a deserted Mars becomes so compelling that nothing else matters. Not even love.
The Wolf of the Woods
Reading Time: 10 minutesWhen Dominic saved his sister from a monster, he didn’t anticipate he would become one too. Now, he might be the most dangerous creature in the woods and if he doesn’t get help, he could hurt the people he loves.
Ollie and the Stickman
Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen Olivia gets bored in class and doodles a stickman on her arm, she has no idea what she’s in for. When it is brought to life by a rival girl, everything changes.
Osprey
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe New Gods were cast out two hundred and sixty-two years ago when humanity enacted the Great Blackout. We had already lost almost everything. Rumors have persisted ever since that they would find a way to return and finish what they started.
Dancing With Etta
Reading Time: 6 minutesA puppet suddenly appears in a woman’s house, and though it is confined to the house only, it follows her like a shadow.
Limb Regeneration Therapy
Reading Time: 3 minutesWill this be the doctor who finally takes on Aki’s limb regeneration? It’s the sixth alien specialist and hope is slowly vanishing from his eyes.
This World of Strange Design
Reading Time: 4 minutesBuilding a planet used to be harder. There was a real art to it. It required raw talent polished to a diamond’s edge.
Superfine
Reading Time: 4 minutesLightyears from home, a miner toils on a moon, gradually being hollowed out. They scrape a life, money to support their family, and something like friendship, from the dirt. But when disaster strikes, they are forced to make a hard decision.
Cramping Your Style
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you had the power to take down your opponents on the soccer field simply by touching them, would you?
Quabbin’s Child
Reading Time: 14 minutesAlone on a foggy day, among the ruins of an old New England town, a runner has an encounter with the ghost of a small child asking for help.
Hungry
Reading Time: 13 minutesJust how long can young Will Graves hold back on his craving for human brains?
Weekend Treasures
Reading Time: 12 minutesFlea markets have gizmos, thingamajigs and other useful things.
The Bars of Orion
Reading Time: 24 minutesCrossing into a parallel universe is traumatic, but being a good father and learning to let go requires treatment.
Pumpkin Seeds
Reading Time: 17 minutesLate one night, an orphan sees a strange monster, a man, patiently waiting just outside the minister’s home.
Situation
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat happens when a young mage tries to contain a hell breach? Well, it’s hell.
The Boy in the Giant Robot
Reading Time: 4 minutesOnce there was a giant robot. Inside the giant robot was a boy.
An Unusual Practice
Reading Time: 7 minutes
Dr. Matthew Hamilton just wanted a nice, quiet practice at a small clinic. He never bargained for a reputation as the go-to doctor for supernatural creatures. But his very first patient leads him into a world of werewolves, ghosts, sprites, glass people, imps, and witches. In order for Dr. Hamilton’s unique clinic to succeed, however, he must triumph over malevolent forces who don’t want the supernatural world to have their own “Doctor of the Unusual.”
Kept Woman
Reading Time: 5 minutesAfter literally sucking the life out of her abusive husband, a ghost wife tells her story of ruin and retribution.
Kind of Super
Reading Time: 10 minutesWhat happens when your superhero powers aren’t so super anymore?
Top Dog Gone
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne day a rabid animal took a bite out of Breeder’s beloved pet and sidekick Top Dog. Top Dog is a muscular, spoiled canine with a colossal appetite. Breeder always let Top Dog play with Creatures, even dangerous and wild ones. He secretly got a kick out of watching Top Dog’s nature grow hellish and animated when he toyed with them. Top Dog also had a talent for dominating Creatures of all kinds. Breeder bragged to Brother often.
Barter Queen
Reading Time: 16 minutesSoledad and her brother arrive at Marytown, a post-apocalyptic stronghold where normal people can live in relative safety–as long as they have a skill to offer the community. The anachronistically well-groomed Queen Mary sees potential in Soledad, introducing both comfort and danger to the siblings’ lives.
How I Came to Be Raised by Balniwan the Fool
Reading Time: 11 minutesDebts are called in high in the hills in this bronze-age fantasy.
Sweet Bells Jangled
Reading Time: 24 minutesKarin heads up a group of disparate and interesting characters exploring tunnels lined with luminous rock that Earth needs. Good suspense with a satisfactorily scientific denouement and love thrown in. What more could you ask?
The Devil’s Triangle
Reading Time: 23 minutesFirst came the time-storm, which erased half the population. Then came the Dinosaur Apocalypse …
Live Nude Death
Reading Time: 4 minutesA hitman hired to kill the Four Horsemen and prevent the apocalypse has one last target waiting for him in the parking lot of an abandoned strip club. But how do you kill Death?
A PLATE FROM THE GODS
Reading Time: 17 minutesThe lands were barren, the animals were dead and their bellies were rumbling. In one last attempt, they prayed for salvation, but something else answered them…
The Dawn Cluster I: Detriment
Reading Time: 13 minutesDuty and revenge intersect as a displaced crew fight for survival. but the toll of that survival may cost too much. Their fate hinges on the destinies of two men, both teetering between valor and self-destruction.
Enjoy an excerpt from the first novel in The Dawn Cluster, ‘Detriment.’
Burning Embers
Reading Time: 27 minutesA psychic makes the mistake of falling in love with the person she is supposed to protect from assassination.
Forbidden
Reading Time: 10 minutes“Don’t go in the forest.” “Don’t open your eyes after sunset.” “Don’t look behind that door in the cellar.” Being forbidden from doing something is a common theme in fairy tales, but why? What kind of power does the person doing the forbidding have over the one being forbidden?
The Apatite Necklace
Reading Time: 8 minutesAt a cliff’s edge, an unnamed protagonist has a conversation with their dead mother.
The Erasure
Reading Time: 6 minutesAfter watching his annoying neighbor be arrested and erased, both virtually and physically, from the world, a man decides to risk everything to help preserve a few fleeting memories of others who have been erased.