Reading Time: 8 minutesFinding lonely sanctuary in the woods the protagonist finds the only company he has is the waterlogged wedding party bobbing in the pond.

Reading Time: 5 minutesFor the King it is love at first sight, but can love, no matter how intense and generous, be forced?

Reading Time: 3 minutesTrapped on a backward planet hundreds of light-years from home, a brave astronaut hides in plain sight among the resident aliens and laments the dying world he left behind.

Reading Time: 4 minutesA not-quite-human entity roams the world, hoping to find true love before her kind is erased from existence.

Reading Time: 17 minutesA sordid tale of vice and corruption takes shape as Knight-Sister Arlise Dun investigates the mysterious death of courtesan Emerei Dawson.

Reading Time: 5 minutesA mother, son, and grandmother evacuate a dark, frozen planet earth but dread something even worse.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you’re married to a witch don’t make empty promises or you may find yourself learning a hard lesson.

Reading Time: 21 minutesWhen exploring abandoned wrecks within the accretion disk of a black hole Rhea, a inexperienced girl living on the salvage ship Thanaku, discovers the impossible: the body of a female human, dormant within a 100-year old container. Nobody on the ships believes it should be revived but Rhea can’t help feeling kinship with this semi-mythical creature.

Reading Time: 4 minutesTrapped in a life pod attached to a dying spacecraft, an aging, battle-weary engineer has less than three minutes to live and an impossible choice to make. However, thanks to two computer programmers—over 100 years in the past—he’s not alone.