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1983

by Aaron Clayton

It was 1983, when I was 11 years old, when I began believing in ghosts. It was October 31st, Halloween Night, and this was the night I saw Mr. Jacob Wasser. I was traveling in the back seat of my family's Chevy Nova, along a dark, mountain road in Montana, when I saw a ghost for the first time. This is my story.

The Gables

by Aaron Clayton

Take a moment and picture a life that is likely quite different than the one you currently live. Imagine you were sent to prison, for the rest of your life, for killing six people (Seven, actually, but no one has connected you to the seventh... that you know of). Your wife, whom you still love, left you because you are a murderer. Also, she is the reason you are in prison, because she turned you in. Now the only one who comes to see you in prison, which is the only family you have left, is your... more

Terminus (Fringe Worlds #1)

by Kevin Hardman

Being the sole survivor of humanity’s first bloody encounter with the alien Vacra had cost Gant Maker his military career. However, upon the Vacra’s return, Maker is reinstated and - assisted by a band of military rejects (including a blind sharpshooter, an unstable psychic, and a genetically-engineered killing machine who refuses to fight) - ordered to hunt this enemy down on a distant world.

Summertide

by Charlotte E. English

‘You may have noticed,’ said Maut, ‘that the Tree is on the move.’ On the edge of the town of Kottow stands the tallest (and oddest) Tree in the land. It’s a staid and solid arbour — until the Tree picks up its mighty old roots and wanders off, taking its resident band of misfits away with it. Whither goes the Tree? Not even the wizard can say. 'There is something mighty fey about all this, or my name ain't Diggory Stokey.' Far away from Kottow, a forest lies lost in the mists of a drea... more

The Bit Dance

by Tilmer Wright Jr

What happens when millions of tiny minds find a way to work together? At what point do they become one? At what point are they no longer merely machinery, but actually alive? Kayla Henry is a genius. She has a grasp of technology that far surpasses that of people three times her tender age of fourteen. She has mastered every skill she has attempted to acquire – except the ability to impress her father and appease his overbearing perfectionism. The eBot is the newest offering from her father’s em... more

Motes

by Tilmer Wright Jr

A speck of dust floats in the air, illuminated by a sunbeam. To a daydreamer like Thom Finch, that speck is an imaginary commander leading his army against an equally imaginary foe. The reality is something even Thom’s fertile imagination cannot fathom. He must somehow convince himself, his family and his best friend that his sanity is intact and that what he is seeing is real. The Mu’ahi are tiny in comparison to humans – each one as small as a dust mote. Their planet is isolated in a bubble of... more

The Outsider's Mind

by Sean Aeon

The Outsider’s Mind is a stirring concoction of philosophical fiction and sci-fi/fantasy. What can be found inside are the multifaceted musings and philosophies of immortals contemplating loss, interdimensional travelers, bee’s struggling to figure out humans, zombies assessing the meaning of humanity, revolutionary spiders, and much more. Comprised of 88 pages of thought-provoking quotes and 165 pages of unpredictable prose, this is the weirdest, deepest, and most oddly-perceptive fictional ... more

The Art of Dying

by Kyle McKeon

March 26th, 2023 – Cullver City, Pa. A day that went down in infamy. A day where GEHM heroes and villains set aside their differences in order to save and protect their kind. General George McCaffrey marched into the city, backed by his own personal army and the Mankind Restoration Act in hand, he singled out the GEHM population. Concentration camps, inhumane experimentations, kidnappings, it was practically a citywide genocide. All for what exactly? To protect the human race from an ill-conceiv... more

Alien A La Carte

by LizaRose Alderson

“The dough rose beautifully; unfortunately, it rose beautifully to the ceiling and was now stuck. Normally this would not be a problem; gravity would have its way …. This was far from normal…” Bae’s career as a xeno-nutritionist is over before it’s begun when he fails his medical for the Space Colonization Corps. He takes the only job in space that he can get when offered a position as chef on the low Earth orbit station Theta. But Theta hides more than one secret, giving Bae’s original ca... more

Thirst for Revenge

by Damian Westly

Stripped of his captaincy and pilot’s licence due to a charge of negligence by a court after three crew members are killed on his first mission, he claims he is innocent. But he has no idea who his adversary is or why he wants to kill him. Events beyond his control then turn into an avalanche, which once started has to run its course before justice prevails. Friends’ lives are put in danger as they help him in finding the enemy. Altair, an alien creature, has taken his likeness and tries to dete... more

Shield Lord Marayshan

by Joanna Zorina Ray

In this book, the humans meet their first aliens, the friendly reptilian Ringulian people. Next come the Kalesians, willing to share their space technology with the humans. The Ringulians live on Jupiter’s ice moon ‘Europa’. The Kalesians live on the planetoid, rocky world of ‘Pluto’. The humans then hear from the Gloshans. They are sinister, brutal space pirates, who decide to wage a space war against the Earth people, the Ringulians and Kalesians. The humans are terrified, knowing that they d... more

Darker Matter - Book I: Dakor's Darkness

by Jim Lowther

The first book in the Darker Matter Trilogy takes us on an enthralling journey of strength and self discovery in a book full of battles, love, magic and betrayal.

Echoes from a Time Passage

by Susannah MacDonald

Markas, son of an inter-plane diplomat, is obsessed with two things: dance and the image of a girl from Earth. When his sister vanishes and his father fails to return from one of his forays to Earth, Markas decides to traverse the dangerous Time Passage to find them. ‘I have been afraid before in my life, but this, I decided, was like that which, in the books of Ezsk, seemed to be like the descent into the Afterlife for the wicked. I seemed to be pulled from the main passage down a narrower trib... more

Working Burlap

by ANTHONY MURREY

A collection of humorous short stories by the man "whose writing is to literature what Gary Larson's 'The Far Side' is to cartoons. Here is an eclectic collection of cerebral slapstick; a book that's not afraid to ask the question: do real men read kitsch?

The Other Inside

by J.M. White

Stranger Son

by Jim Nelson

The Bridge Daughter Cycle continues with STRANGER SON. Now a grown woman, Ruby Driscoll lives by her wits on the street while her mother languishes in prison. A tip from a familiar name sends Ruby digging through her family's deepest secrets while seeking out her long-lost younger brother. Her journey leads to the heart of Jefferson, America's newest and fifty-first state. Ruby must reunite her family while avoiding authorities, hiding her true nature—and staying alive.

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