Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a society where everybody is beautiful, physical imperfection becomes a career move.

Reading Time: 17 minutes“A unique, bizarre talent” was how critics described Timera Lovich and her wildy speculative poetry. But even she didn’t know the true genesis of her imaginary tales until she realized she wasn’t who or what she thought she was. Until it was too late.

Reading Time: 12 minutesQuinn Baxter escaped from a tyrannical government and finds that he is now an alien fugitive on the run from his planet’s security squad.

Reading Time: 8 minutesA hellbeast stuck in a crappy office job struggles to comply with his sensitivity training.

Reading Time: 21 minutesFor Althea Stagg, demigod detective, family history and mythology are often the same thing. So it comes as no surprise to her when a case leads her to a corn maze, and the monster that stalks its prey within.

Reading Time: 4 minutesA dentist with a dark family history receives a request to fit a patient with a very unique set of teeth.

Reading Time: 12 minutesA story about a young woman’s journey to find her true identity after her mother dies. It’s also a story about love, Mother Earth, and living without fear.

Reading Time: 8 minutesOnce upon a time, there was a virtual world that was almost, but not quite, completely unlike 1500s England. The assassin peered out from the window overlooking Leadenhall Street. It was mid-day and there were plenty of targets. Local residents, mostly, but also a fair number of tourists and would-be adventurers looking for quests. The […]

Reading Time: 8 minutesAn arid world is ruled by the five beast-gods, human-animal hybrids with mysterious powers, but also, increasingly, by the despotic Daonais and their loyal servants. Nade she has no memory of her past but is pursued through an inhospitable desert.

Reading Time: 15 minutesA woman with no memory wakes up in a city with no history. The city is alive. Among skyscrapers of flesh and bridges of bone, Kora hunts for her identity and for the forbidden food she craves: a predator and prey at once.

Reading Time: 11 minutesJimi awoke, moving only her eyes. It was something she learned from Lonny.  He called it pulling together the threads of your life before you start moving around.  It’s a focusing thing. She reviewed what she could do this day to make her dreams come true.  Life is more manageable if you start each day […]

Reading Time: 13 minutesTen-year-old Ross stopped sleeping when a rat-that-was-more-than-a-rat crept from his closet every night.

Reading Time: 7 minutesA time traveler decides to rid history of serial killers. Men like Manson & Bundy prove easy, but just how does one track down Jack the Ripper?

Reading Time: 2 minutesI slip into the confessional booth and sit down on the pale green cushion. It’s a peaceful place redolent of oiled wood, clean old ladies, and thousands of years of tradition. On my right, where the outline of a priest will appear, is a beautiful screen of elaborately carved wooden filigree. Before he arrives, I feel tranquility like in no other place on earth. The priest appears. I can tell from his voice he is younger than I would like. As is traditional, I start the session.

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Dutch Goose is one of those cozy little bars in the neighborhood surrounding MIT. It’s a place where you can pick up a sandwich on the way home from campus or have a few beers while doing homework. Couples drop by to have a quick drink before their special event. It’s the kind of […]