Reading Time: 18 minutesDragons can’t lie, right? That’s what the legends say. So, when Guy finds himself at the wrong end of a failed heist, he puts that knowledge to the test. Compatriots dead. Hope gone. And his last chance at life is convincing a dragon to let him go.
Reading Time: 5 minutesGuilt, melancholy, and the lost soul of a love form the basis of this twist on the paranormal/magical romance.
Reading Time: 21 minutesTrapped in an experiment in faster-than-light space travel, the captain of the ship searches for what went wrong.
Reading Time: 18 minutesIn the future, our dreams are mass entertainment … or a weapon of mass destruction.
Reading Time: 15 minutesA physics professor and his student on a plane argue about the possibility of infinite alternate universes, while being robbed blind by a bratty kid. The professor bets the student that even the most unlikely event possible must happen, leading to three very confused Confederate Cavalry charging down the aisle.
Reading Time: 10 minutesDesperate for cash, Nick and his friend plot a home invasion. They picked the wrong house.
Reading Time: 6 minutesLightly amusing modern-feel fantasy mashup about an unlikely partnership between a budget-price necromancer and his student locked in an unusual business model.
Reading Time: 21 minutesA serial killer is playing havoc in the city-state of Sheebatiya. Can Allii uncover the killer before fear pushes the city into anarchy?
Reading Time: 5 minutesA vampire, attempting to adapt to Western customs, sends her Christmas list to Santa.
Reading Time: 6 minutesTimestealing is an art. And a business. And a service. A good timestealer can predict what the next best-seller will be – most of the time.
Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen Janza, a bodyguard-for-hire meets a suspicious merchant, her personal code and memories of the oppression suffered by her people battle for her soul.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA quick collision of rich space junk collectors, and an expert counterfeiter.
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn spite of interfering adults, a spoiled child is determined to claim her birthright in the court of Oberon and Titania.
Reading Time: 8 minutesA secret government organization is fighting an unknown, but strange enemy.
Reading Time: 21 minutesAfter her technological tool failed to warn the world of the sudden loss of birds on the planet, a self-exiled blind elder who has Aspergers and suffers from dysphonia, finds new hope in the field of soundscape ecology.
Reading Time: 4 minutesConscripted Lieutenant Lovemore Vulgaris has been instructed to design the people of the future, and he’s not messing around.
Reading Time: 10 minutesA young woman faces her vengeful parents returning from the dead.
Reading Time: 10 minutesA couple unknowingly house a blood-sucking parasite under their bed.
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn a Victorian town plagued by werespiders, a curious spinster takes in a mysterious woman.
Reading Time: 5 minutesA young girl, determined to catch Santa in the act, waits impatiently with a list of her own.
Reading Time: 13 minutesA mother and her young daughter fight to survive in a world ravaged by an ongoing world war between megacorporations.
Reading Time: 17 minutesDorian Salva is an artist with a consuming passion for birds. One night, his work-in-progress takes on an eerie life of its own, and the relationship between artist and subject, painter and painted, undergoes an uncanny reversal.
Reading Time: 5 minutesA fractured fable and a meal served up in a haunted castle.
Reading Time: 17 minutesA woman tries to intervene with the fate of a young barista, but fate will not be cheated.
Reading Time: 31 minutesAn anxious young man gets more than he bargained for when he accompanies his fiance’s family on a hunting trip.
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere we have an unexpected intersection of past and present when Fate takes a hand to switch things up.
Reading Time: 10 minutesScience fiction meets gothic in this story of a groundbreaking discovery gone wrong, and the horrifying fall of the titular scientist.
Reading Time: 17 minutesWhen Irish-born Father Donahey retires to Winterset, he finds the community is awash with supernatural creatures, some friendly, many decidedly not.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA flash fantasy story about a High Priestess who must deal with rising tides that threaten to drown her people.
Reading Time: 21 minutesBen is reveling in his tragically achieved freedom. He thinks he has it made, except for an elusive partner. Then an unknown woman first DMs then stands him up. His troubles have only begun when he realizes how thoroughly someone has infiltrated his technological fortress.
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn the aftermath of a climate apocalypse, Jeremy and Alex survive by supplying food to the wealthy people living above the water, in the penthouses of Old Manhattan. But the wealthy aren’t the only ones that are hungry.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Katie’s brain seems to jump out of sync she discovers another, almost identical, mind living inside her own. This duplicate mind gradually is not what she seems but instead something far more dangerous.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen old Ms. Linton rescues a wounded magpie, memories of her past come winging back.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA mother, desperate to feed her young son, takes a risk that doesn’t pay off.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter an elective medical procedure, a “Blank” remains a living being, completely anonymized and freed from any visible identity. If one showed up in your life refusing to leave, would you remember who they once were and what they’d meant to you?
Reading Time: 11 minutes2,000 feet below the surface, are they the observers? Or the observed?
Reading Time: 19 minutesWhen a bioengineered “weapon” goes feral, a kill team is dispatched to retire it.
Reading Time: 16 minutesBrother Silas is unhappy with his lot at the abbey. He sees no alternative until a unique manuscript comes his way.
Reading Time: 11 minutesA remote cabin in the southwest desert is the scene of an alien invasion, but it’s not what you think. Maybe the ghost hunters have it wrong.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe holidays take on an ominous tone when a woman receives a phone call from the son she murdered.
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen a dead scientist calls a city paper to report a nuclear accident, the night reporter goes out to investigate. What he finds is completely alien.
Reading Time: 9 minutesA little boy sees the ghost of an old man in the mirror. Or is it the old man who sees the ghost of a small boy?
Reading Time: 8 minutesParenting is hard enough without help from the multiverse.
