Glenn Hurst is a fifty-six-year-old ghostwriter in dire financial straits who also faces a bitter divorce. When crypto-millionaire Brad Thorsen hires him to write his "origin story" at the remote Mattison Alkaline Works, the "Maw," in rural Virginia, he believes it is the lifeline he...

Into the Dax by Bob Welch follows Kiley, a systems engineer working with pollination drones in an agricultural region, whose routine changes when hostile machines destroy her network and target her directly. A recorded message from her father, Lucas Van, a scientist in hiding, reveals...

The Sooner I Go by Heather Cumiskey is the story of Brynn Gallardo, a recent high school graduate who is still devastated by the simultaneous deaths of her boyfriend Cody and her musician parents in separate car accidents on the same night seven months ago....

In the anthology Undercity by Monte Schulz, we primarily move alongside Marco Grenelle, through a city consumed by fire after a coordinated attack forces the residents into flight. He travels with Geismar Brecht while searching for Mirés Grillet, a performer whose path leads into a...

In Ramcy Diek’s Frenzy of the Storm, Fleur Keizer lives in 1864 at Keizer Manor, when a violent storm in the dunes pulls her from her world and leaves her near the Abernathey Research Center in the present day. Cassius Rewick recognizes that her arrival...

Thomas R. Boniello’s A Symphony of Spies is an espionage thriller that bridges international intelligence and the rarefied world of classical music. Drew Reid is an intelligent subatomic physicist working on a classified project; he also suffers from limerence, a condition that makes him overshare...

In Small Town Symphony in Four Deadly Movements by Sloan Richman, Daniel Cole is still living with his parents in his twenties. Daniel is socially awkward, and his anxiety makes him feel out of step with the world. Daniel is a gifted violinist and was...

The Performance Review by Adrian M. Mompoint is an unsettling short story that might just resonate with office workers. Francis has resigned himself to the fact that his migraines mean he will never be a theater actor again. After a series of failed temping jobs,...

Lately, Lee Butler, a tabloid writer and ghost hunter for hire, has been having weird dreams about two women from his past and his hometown of Wheelen Creek, Texas. The two women, both his love interests, had been the reason he had left that place,...

Hysterical by Amber Dean is the first-person narrative of Jessie Anne, a sexually addicted bisexual woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder (DID). On the one side, she's in love with her best friend, Tinsel, who doesn't want to commit to a one-person affair. On the...