Burning Embers

Burning Embers

Gerri ZimmermanJun 30, 2021
Reading Time: 27 minutes A psychic makes the mistake of falling in love with the person she is supposed to protect from assassination.
The perfect travel situation is at hand!

Williamson’s Cosmic Express Embraces Progress

N.T. NarbutovskihJun 28, 2021
Reading Time: 16 minutes There is now, and indeed has always been, a tendency of society to split between those who favor progress and those who want things left well enough alone.
Forbidden

Forbidden

Jonathan CohenJun 28, 2021
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?
All Appearances Aside

All Appearances Aside

Avery ParksJun 26, 2021
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can change your appearance with the touch of a button. But should you?
Renna’s Crossing

Renna’s Crossing

Geordie MorseJun 25, 2021
Reading Time: 25 minutes The first part of a contemporary fantasy story for young and new adults. Sixteen-year-old Renna Porter and Job, her mysterious tutor in witchcraft, race to a magical sanctuary deep in the Adirondacks, pursued by a demon hunting down the last of Renna’s bloodline.
Castaway on Temurlone

Castaway on Temurlone

David Wesley HillJun 23, 2021
Reading Time: 21 minutes

It is indeed a Universe of Miracles! But not for young Pimsol Anderts, idle and jobless on a depressed, waterlogged world, until he signs aboard the interstellar freighter Miraculous Abernathy. Indentured to the aristocratic Wirthy family—and bewitched by beautiful Mirable Wirthy, the latest clone of the long-dead matriarch Imogene Wirthy—Pim’s adventure has barely begun when pirates attack, forcing him to flee the ship with Mirable in tow …

What would you do with the elixir of life?

Vonnegut’s The Big Trip Up Yonder Casts Hilarious Fun at Generation Gap

N.T. NarbutovskihJun 21, 2021
Reading Time: 13 minutes This tale is an excellent example of Vonnegut’s grasp of the hilarious and sometimes macabre nature of humanity.
The Apatite Necklace

The Apatite Necklace

Gary McKayJun 21, 2021
Reading Time: 8 minutes At a cliff’s edge, an unnamed protagonist has a conversation with their dead mother.
Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt

Neil HarrisonJun 19, 2021
Reading Time: 4 minutes A video game eventually progresses from virtuality to reality.

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