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  • Running Behind Time

    by Jan Turk Petrie
    It’s the Summer of 1982, and Beth Sawyer is thrilled to have landed the title role in a play. It may only be in a fringe theatre in Shepherd’s Bush, but it’s the start she’s always dreamed of. It’s the Summer of 2020, amid the global pandemic, and Tom Brookes is furloughed. Unable to face lockdown in a tiny city flat, he moves back to his mother’s cottage in the sleepy Cotswold village of Stoatsfield-under-Ridge. Neither of them expects an everyday train journey to throw their normal live... more
  • The Flip Side Of Sad

    by Ashley Amber

    James Letta is the world's newest singing sensation. But for someone who always sings such happy music, he sure is sad. While on a promo tour for his new album, James has what he thinks is the hardest day of his career... until he has to relive it. A ghostly spirit decides to trap James inside his own album in order to make him learn the lessons of its lyrics, hoping she can help him get on the flip side of sad. In just under 7,500 words, this debut novelette by Ashley Amber that she desc... more

  • Catalyst

    by Mathias Invictus
    CATALYST starts on the first day of Morgan’s Senior year with a vision of a girl of fire—literally. Andalynn appears amidst the bustling hallway burning as an alabaster sun. She enters Morgan’s life as a catalyst of heart, his missing piece, long forgotten. The awakening of his soul proves only the beginning. Something is wrong with the world around him and a haunting presence pulls him toward answers and destiny. In a hidden cave high on the slopes of his beloved mountain, he meets Aelvi, a b... more
  • Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror

    by Shane Hawk
    Welcome to Anoka, Minnesota, a small city just outside of the Twin Cities dubbed "The Halloween Capital of the World" since 1937. Here before you lie several tales involving bone collectors, pagan witches, werewolves, skeletal bison, and cloned children. It is up to you to decipher between fact and fiction as the author has woven historical facts into his narratives. With his debut horror collection, Cheyenne & Arapaho author Shane Hawk explores themes of family, grief, loneliness, and identity ... more
  • The Voyage in the Blizzard

    by Leila Mukhiden
    This story takes place in the world where people are suffering, surviving, and fighting against the furious creatures. This world is emerged into coldness and blizzard. The powerful curse doesn't let anyone live normally. The inhabitants of this world are only warriors. They know nothing except how to survive and prepare for endless battle. But everything, sooner or later, comes to an end. One day, a brave man named Draken, in order to bring a new hope to this world, goes again... more
  • Warrior Tithe

    by T.J. Deschamps

    Sparks fly between an unlikely pair with a spurned sorcerer hot on their trail.

    Aoife, a kelpie, flees a marriage trap laid by her father, Mannan mac Lir and the sorcerer king Cu Roi mac Daire, only to fall prey to an iron snare in the mortal realm.

    Fagan, a poor cottar, with nothing left to lose takes pity upon the kelpie he finds in his snare, setting her free. When the kelpie transforms into a beautiful fae maiden and offers to take him to the queen of Sidhe to repay him for hi... more

  • Magical After

    by David Gunter
    David Gosling, widower, and father three enters a virtual reality world looking for his wife. A man, Carl Mathews the 3rd, who desires to discover her whereabouts within the virtual world and who has dark designs on her wants to use David to find her convinces David to enter. Assassins are deployed into the virtual world and begin their adventures as they begin their search for David as well. David, once within the virtual world, arrives at a city and begins to make friends which may help him... more
  • Windchaser: Phantom Island Book 1

    by Krissi Dallas

    A romantic portal fantasy for the young and young-at-heart...

    High school senior Whitnee has spent six years rebuilding her identity after her father’s mysterious disappearance left her with more questions than answers. With her two best friends, Morgan and Caleb, she returns as a mentor to the summer camp of her childhood. Nestled in the Texas hill country, Camp Fusion is everything Whitnee remembers—except for the haunting visions that only she can see. One fateful night, ... more

  • The Place Beyond Her Dreams

    by Oby Aligwekwe
    “We are most courageous at our weakest; when we believe we have faced what we fear the most and have nothing more to lose.” Set against the backdrop of two warring towns, Oby Aligwekwe’s Young Adult debut—told from the viewpoint of her main character—is inspired by her West African heritage, fables, and spiritual beliefs. Ona’s journey reveals the power of choice, the true source of happiness, and, most importantly, the transformation one must go through to realize and eventually occupy their... more
  • The Brum Hesles Series - Book 1

    by Desiree Calderon de Fawaz
    When President Orains gets re-elected for a third term in 2025, the nation plunges into a second Civil War. Doomed for the Brazos camp, Brum Hesles, her two siblings and mother flee their home in the Houston archipelago overnight, leaving her father behind. Assisted by the Unity Forces, a resistance group fighting the new Great Republic’s regime, Brum reaches the safety of her mother’s ancestral home in the Oaxacan town of El Nidal. There, in the relative safety of her mysterious great-aunt’s ho... more
  • The Headless Boy

    by Kelli Owen

    Reeling from the loss of a child, Maggie finds her job at the local daycare unbearable and errands around town impossible. She knows every child, every single parent, and they're all reminders of what she's lost. Unable to heal, she sinks further into the grip of grief and depression.

    Jake is a good guy, a great husband, and wants only the best for his broken wife. Therapy and medications aren't helping, and a change of scenery makes perfect sense. A new home. A fresh start.... more

  • Revolution: The New World

    by Shemar Frazier
    In a post-apocalyptic earth, a group of teenagers are forced to embark on a dangerous quest, upon witnessing a world-changing event in their first mission outside the kingdom Olympus. They quickly learn that this occurrence is capable of ending The Age of Zombies, however, their oppressors soon obtain news of this incident as well. These teens must combat the undead army, the world government's elite enforcers, bandits searching for easy targets, and most deadly of all, each other in their pe... more
  • Effacement

    by Hieronymus Hawkes
    When recording every aspect of your life has become the law, what happens when your connection to the world is severed? Pursued by a relentless government agent, Cole’s on the run to solve the mystery before they shut him up permanently.
  • The Psyman

    by Nick Bruechle
    In the future, society is divided into Gobblers; oxygen-addled and fame-addicted citizens; and Sharps, the ruling elite who live in a secret city called the Bastion, where they imbibe a high carbon dioxide atmosphere. The Gobblers work 15 hours per week, mostly in surveillance, and spend their spare time watching and interacting with YouStar in their Cocoons. The Psyman traces the lives of three friends, Biz, Necker and Bock, and their teacher Gneiss, in the years immediately after the tr... more
  • Intruder

    by J.L. Kodanko
    The prince cannot be saved without his brother... Rescued by Khan’s extraordinary sacrifice, Reka and her friends are alive and well. Troubled by what tortuous fate might await the magic wielding prince, their search leads them to his reclusive brother Yuriel, who would prefer to be left alone for another few centuries. Yuriel holds some of the answers Reka is so desperately searching for, especially as she explores what it means to be an Empathetic. Reka will have to convince the cantankerous ... more
  • The Ranatanland Tales

    by Lloyd Chiasson
    As Hurricane Isla batters his grandparents’ house, nine-year-old Gus experiences excitement and y of all: fear. To ease the boy’s nerves, his grandfather begins to read four stories Gus’s great grandfather wrote and always swore were true. As the grandfather begins to read each story, Gus is magically transported to the humorous and mystical world of Ranatanland. In this enchanting place, Gus meets a mind-reading dragon, a talking tree, and two teenagers who seek out adventure. ... more
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