Removal Day by Aeryn Rudel
In Fates Arms by R. E. Rule
At the End of the Universe by Chloe Garner
The Blessing of the Boulder by C.K. Bickford
Amy Flores is a wife, mother, and lover of books, animals, anime and video games. She also dabbles in YouTube videos and writing too.
Dee Darling lives in San Francisco, CA where she is active in the Society for Creative Anachronism and indulges her obsession with history. She is an avid reader and writer of science fiction, fantasy and paranormal fiction.
Zack lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he isn’t reading or writing stories, he enjoys exploring the many natural wonders of Northern California.
Michael is a speculative fiction writer from Las Vegas, Nevada. Ironically, he is a dyslexic English teacher who never passed a reading proficiency test. When he isn't actively preventing his family from eating him, he loves to think about ghosts, spaceships, and talking rodents.
There’s this thing about rocks. They sit. That’s it. In desserts beneath glaring suns they watch the world around them bake and boil. In the crashing waves and hidden riptides of oceans and seas they Read more…
The beginning is the end. Many species over the history of the universe have forged theories of the beginning and the end of the light. Because that’s what’s interesting about the universe. The light. The Read more…
Perdita was at the Third Street bus stop when she realized she was invisible. The bus had come lumbering and puffing to the curb, and she’d started to climb on when a man shoved past Read more…
Killian stood on the stoop of 1666 Red Street and sighed. He glanced over at Morris, casually smoking one of his god-awful clove cigarettes. “How are you so goddamn calm?” Morris shrugged. “Getting all worked Read more…
My parents said I didn’t need to be afraid of the monsters in Lake Reema, because the Lady trapped them under ice. “That’s why we hold this festival,” they’d say and stamp the ice, Read more…
One year ago, Halloween’s annual resurrection fell on a Saturday, and the dawn sun disappeared like the closing of God’s eye. The sky blackened, leaving a fiery corona, a devil’s crown as the world descended Read more…
You’re driving up the Pacific Coast for a family vacation. Your son asks about lunch and your daughter won’t stop fidgeting. Your partner needs to pee. You desperately want to stretch your legs. Your right Read more…
The season of the Wishing Fruit was upon them, the village Wise Woman said. A century had passed since the last one. She gathered the eligible daughters, and of them chose two to uphold the Read more…
The white bear’s favorite color is green. I know this because the first thing it does every evening before dinner is thrust its warm, wet nose through the doors of the bureau and take my Read more…
The central hub definitely had a gorgeous view. The transparent dome offered a clear view of the Earth below: all the swirling and blending in the clouds, the pigments and textures in the terrain, the Read more…
It’s near dusk as I round the corner, heading away from the town’s paved streets. Mom told me not to go, but she knew I’d go anyway. Like mother, like daughter. I make a left Read more…
“I want it gone.” The woman says as she lays down on the table. She has a split lip and a big, blue bruise marring half her face. “I don’t care what you have to Read more…
