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The Rattler

by Ryan Berridge

Sam lives in his father’s tavern with his mother and twin sister. His home is on an idyllic island in the middle of the ocean far from danger. Recently pirates have started using the island as a stop off point. On an excursion to the docks, against their father’s wishes, Sam and his sister encounter Junior, the son of the Captain of the Bone Rattler, and two of his henchmen. In saving his sister Sam is captured and taken aboard The Rattler. Sam must quickly learn to fit in aboard the ship to ... more

Skyrmion

by Duane Poncy

Is Sweetland utopia or dystopia? Or something else?

In the minds of those left behind, the act of crossing over to Sweetland is, literally, no different than death. But is Sweetland really a new planet, ready to accept a humanity suffering from war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe-or is it another kind of escape entirely?

Fancy Shop

by Valeri Stanoevich

It’s a collection of narrative short and flash tales. The short stories take place at different times (past, present, future) with different fantasy levels – from stories that are nearly real to phantasmagorias and New Gothic. The characters are also different: knights, anonymous people, dreamers, outsiders, crazy ones, technocrats, cockroaches, holders of secret knowledge. My idea is that all the horror is not outside of us but inside our mind and it is creeping from there.

Faces in a Window

by Oliver C. Seneca

Every school has a secret. After two beloved teachers pass away at St. Stephen’s Middle School, it’s up to Ian Evans & Michelle Thompson to fill their shoes. But their eager anticipation soon turns to terror. They are plagued with unexplainable nightmares and horrific visions: Students who aren’t really there; the school catching fire; scenes of their own deaths playing out before them. Uncovering what it all means could cost them their jobs, or their lives. With each other’s determi... more

OUTFALL

by Tim Ruel

Writing in progress.

SHINY METAL BOXES

by Tim Ruel

Skillful eye-implant employee Emma Castle gets reassigned to deal with the freakish new illness that's putting millions on Earth in a near-coma. Society in 2079 revolves around AI devices, including eyeGo, the visual implant installed in everyone from the age of nine. Emma, an eyeGo health technician, gets sucked into investigating a potential link between the eye implant and the affliction. While people around Earth drop like inebriated flies, Emma uncovers a potential conspiracy that cou... more

The Hidden Road

by Martin A. Cullen

Inara fought for and nearly died for her freedom. But she won a chance at a normal life. Turns out, she hates it. She yearns to move. To do…something. Then a call from her friend Yukie shakes Inara into action. Turns out Lee is trapped in a magic hardened prison and Yukie needs Inara to break him out. Inara jumps at the challenge of a prison break. The thrill of her old life sets her heart racing. Unbeknownst to her, this decision sets her on a collision course with her old nemesis, Cyrus.... more

And So It Begins

by Kati Kirsten

A year later and Amity Thorne is still struggling to let things go. She should be using the rage to drive her, but instead the Guardianship has needled into her heart, leaving her anger to turn inward. Reeling from her past, Amity is compelled to do what's necessary to protect those around her. After ending up in the same facility as her sister, Amity learns of the depravity weaved within the Reaver's psyche—and worse, the darkness that creeps behind every corner of her own. Waging wars with... more

It Starts With Me

by Kati Kirsten

Amity Thorne is not like other nineteen year olds—she's trying to survive in war-torn Western America where fear and loss are no strangers. In a time where normal is gone, she closes herself off from the rest of the world, keeping her head down, and persevering through the oppressive rule of the Guardianship. When her father's choices leave them in danger, Amity struggles to leave everything behind as she and her faithful wolf-like companion, Sarge, find themselves on a perilous mission to s... more

THE COOL THING. A Dark Comedy. Or Not.

by ROBERT RIFE

A devious couple steal a device from a buried UFO. It dumps them into a storm of scientists, lab mutants... and love. MAYBE. If they survive. "irreverent, fun, and scary"

Entropy

by Dana Hayward

Life on Earth is dying from a mysterious cause, and President Kim bets her future on an obscure, young scientist whose theory can only be tested from outer space. The year is 2066, and the race is on against the Chinese to establish a viable lunar colony before the 100th anniversary of mankind’s first step on the Moon. Yet, the Moon is only the first step, the springboard for the permanent settlement of Mars. \t“Entropy” is set in the near future where technology has evolved to an astounding ... more

Percivious Origins

by JJ & AJ Cook

What if we’ve never actually been at the pinnacle of the evolutionary ladder? As the pandemic of Percivious: Insomnia tightens its devastating grip on society, travel back in time and across space to uncover its secret... The maverick second volume in the Percivious trilogy, Percivious: Origins shatters history as we (think we) know it. Two hundred and eighty million years before the origin of homo sapiens, an advanced species—the XYZ—are forced to flee as a five-hundred-kilometer-wid... more

Perfect Darkness, Perfect Silence

by Richard Farren Barber

After the apocalypse, only the dead are safe. Once the plague has swept across the world, a small community fights for survival. Hannah leads a crew disposing of the bodies of those who succumbed to the disease. It’s a horrific job – each day spent handling the infected, decaying bodies. She and the fledgeling community must fight to survive in this stuttering dark new Britain. Will they find a way to live together, or will human nature and the problems of the old world push them to extinc... more

Mythera Chronicles: The Lost Athenaeum

by K.C. Auburn

When a timorous thief has a vision of a dark entity swallowing her estranged brother, Caden, she must venture to find stability in her powers to save her only remaining family. Aylith is the Eruanna, protector of the realm, but her past leaves her haunted and unwilling to use her gifts. With her only tether to this world threatened, she will reluctantly follow the guidance of a mysterious woman, Lusha, to the lost Athenaeum in search of answers. Yet Lusha is not all that she claims to be. Her ca... more

The Everlasting Earth

by L. A. Cummings

Mother Earth has finally taken control of her own fate, sinking and devouring life over four centuries. But on Lwo, the last habitable land, humanity endures. Vision and progress have led to prolonged lifetimes, continued technological advancements, and hope for the future, despite a powerful and unrelenting storm. From its founding, Lwo’s watchers have protected the land and its populace. Carefully chosen, and equipped with craft and technology to not only survive the storm, but safely t... more

I Kept a Piece of You

by Joanna Wolford

When Gabe Meier lost his wife, Eleanor, it affected everyone - especially his sons, Alex and Eric. Several years after her death, Gabe struggles with a guilty conscience, and Alex is struggling with demons of his own - he still sees his mother everywhere. Fifteen years later, Alex is living in a small town called Bridgford. Two women go missing within months of each other. No one suspects that Alex is involved. That is until he attracts the attention of Detective Howard Tamblin when an unrela... more

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