Reading Time: 7 minutes Mina struggles with her gift of the Valiance dance. Her life gets a moment of quiet when her heart is touched by a lonely child. It is not what gifts we are given, but how we choose to use them.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Earth is about to launch a satellite into deep space with a sole AI on board — until the AI has another idea.

Reading Time: 21 minutes Someone is trying to turn Baltimore into a gate to Hell. So the mundane and magical communities turn to the one man in the city sworn to defend them. Michael White isn’t the hero you want, deserve, or need.  But he is willing to work on holidays and weekends.

Reading Time: 6 minutes After the earth has been radiated by nuclear war, survivors move below the surface and build a new society underground, only going to the surface once a year to visit the one last tree that still remains.

Reading Time: 4 minutes When your species is prey, you can never let your guard down. Even when you’re walking home.

Reading Time: 12 minutes A sleepy town in rural Alabama holds many secrets, not all of them worth digging up.

Reading Time: 5 minutes This love story between a ghost and an alien is a mash-up of sci/fi, fantasy, and goth.

Reading Time: 7 minutes The lines separating life, death, and laundry are thinner than you think.

Reading Time: 15 minutes When the unsuspecting pharmacologist bumps into her former flame in a South London pub, she learns that the very future of the planet may depend on the outcome of her conversation with the drunken professor.