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The Angel Guide

by Leilani Graceffa

Who is your Angel Guide?

In this short story, while attending a party at a club with two friends, things quickly turn sour after one of Danielle’s friend’s boyfriend breaks up with her.

For a short time believing he won’t show up, Danielle finds him hanging out behind the bar counter while trying to find her friend’s older sister and snaps a picture. Before she can approach him to confront him, a man approaches him first.

Not wanting ... more

Untethered

by Damon May

Ghosts need energy from the living. Their Elders keep ghosts Tethered where they died. Mira cuts her Tether... then a few more. Now the Elders are out to end her afterlife.

Welles Lang's Magic Box

by Randall Moore

All of Hollywood's top actors are dying for a role in the genius auteur, Welles Lang's latest production. Little do they know they may get their wish. Imagine a completely immersive world of entertainment where the sets and the actors exist in three dimensions, beyond virtual reality without need for any other device other than your own eyes, not only sight and sound, but aromas and tactile senses as well. Welles Lang employs technology that allows him to record and playback the performance of ... more

Antlands

by Genevieve Morrissey

It seemed like a good idea… Genetically engineer a species of humanoid workers—strong, tireless, minimally intelligent—to become laborers for humans. What could possibly go wrong?

For a thousand years, humans have had to fight for their survival against the mute, feral “Ants,” created as workers but now gone rogue, scavenging and slaughtering everything in their path.

The beleaguered humans, in the meantime, have evolved two distinc... more

The Child of Chaos

by Glen Dahlgren

Nothing can break the stranglehold the gods of Order have on the world . . . except a roll of the dice.

An irresistible longing drags young Galen to an ancient vault where, long ago, the gods of Order locked Chaos away. Chaos promises power to the one destined to liberate it, but Galen's dreams warn of dark consequences.

He isn't the only one racing to the vault, however. Horace, the bully who lives to torment Galen, is determined to unleash Chao... more

The Path Through Time

by J. Krebs

The War on Mars

by J. Krebs

Take a journey through the darkness with Erica, a troubled veteran who has been separated from her family and will do anything in her power to reunite with them. All is not what it seems as a virus ravages Earth making humans unaware of the sinister moves happening under the surface. An eccentric billionaire creeps from behind the shadows, his brilliance manipulated to a wavelength humans are unable to comprehend as he holds the fate of the entire world in his hands. Erica must fight off the ... more

Scaled

by J.T. Ashmore

A meteor explodes over the Midwest, and teens exposed to the fragments break out in a rash of glittering scales. Among the affected are a homophobic bully, an honor student, and a witty gay guy. Zack, Hilde, and Silas overcome their initial antagonism to form an unlikely alliance. As the scales spread over their bodies, they must work together to combat their self-loathing, accept their alienness, and escape the forces bent on crushing them.

Memory Reborn

by Steven M Nedeau

At his new job at the memory storage facility, Darien Mamon is stunned to discover that he is the intended storage device, and has been all along. Darien thought MemorSingular hired him for his brain. They did. They just don’t need what’s in it. After finding details of a century old knowledge retention program, Darien learns the company has been grooming the minds of new hires to be overwritten with the personas of their most valued employees. An old classmate, Nancy, could be Darien’s only ... more

The Book of Dreams

by Cynthia Scott

Agent Kira Wood's dreams of traveling among the stars come true when the Interplanetary Peace Alliance assigns her to be an attaché to a Z'Dhia, a member of a mysterious sect of aliens from the planet Idris-Sarra. During the Great Galactic War, more than a hundred volumes of the Book of Dreams, annotated collections of scientific knowledge far advanced than anything found in the galaxy, were stolen from Idris-Sarra under the occupation of the dreaded Ro Kan Empire. The Z'Dhian's only task is to ... more

How to Buy a Planet

by D.A. Holdsworth

It’s the Year 2024. Drowning in debt following the pandemic, and facing ruin, the leaders of the G7 have taken the only logical decision. They’ve sold the planet. When Toby, a penniless student, finds out one morning on TV, he's surprised to find the Earth’s new alien owners are staggeringly cute and bring the promise of a debt-free future. He's just getting ready to celebrate along with the rest of the world, when a chance encounter with a mysterious professor reveals the truth. And the... more

Donnybrook Good-Bye

by Martin Cullen

A demonic crusade. A homesick god. A merciless order. A lonely gruffin. And a crafty puca. Trapped in the middle, Inara Caan is an embittered vestal to The Order of the Avenging Hand. She flies to Boston for her next mission. Like every other assignment, she expects more deaths to defile her soul…Not some happy family beaming up from the glossy photo of her targets. To save the innocents, Inara defies The Order. On the run, she fights to keep everyone alive. As enemies close in from all sides,... more

Beyond What Separates Us

by R.A Morris

Four strangers from distant parts of the world struggle to survive on a planet torn apart by war, greed and disease. Living under drastically different circumstances, they are each presented with an opportunity to choose what type of world they want to live in. Beyond What Separates Us follows these four strangers as they attempt to overcome hardships and reach their full potential. This is a story about the best and worst aspects of humanity clashing to determine not only the fate of our spe... more

A Chip on Her Shoulder

by RJ Blain

After a deal with loan sharks sours, Darlene’s brother is permanently transformed into a chipmunk. Not one to accept impossibility as a good excuse for failure, she’s determined to rescue her brother and secure revenge against those who’d poisoned him with grade-a transformatives. If she wants to perform a miracle, she’ll need to join forces with a divine, but the man upstairs and his angels refuse to help. None of the other so-called benevolent divines are willing to help her, either. ... more

Phoebe Douse: Secret Society for Special Abilities and Artefacts

by L. Samuels

Grandmother Naan's superstitious stories seem too peculiar and childish to Phoebe Douse. But when surprising and unfortunate circumstances in Texas lead her to accept a timely invitation to attend a remote boarding school, thousands of miles away in Scotland, Phoebe finds that everything is not what she made herself believe. Unwittingly, Phoebe is thrown onto the stage of power and danger as events unfold that reveal the extent of her abilities and Naan s connection to the school. There, Phoebe ... more

Balancers

by M.C. Alexander

We are taught revenge is wrong, and that those who do good or evil get what they deserve. But whose job is it to ensure that such divine justice is carried out?

Alessandra Genovese, tired of seeing the innocent suffer and the guilty prosper, joins a secret group that speaks to divine messengers who guide them to carry out acts of divine justice outside of the law:

Balancers

But... a murderer is loose in the city. Will Alessandra and the Bal... more

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