Olivia, who has found meaning in teaching law, rather than practicing law, is happy with her situation. If only her boyfriend, Josh, could let her be, but he is driven by ambition and status and looks down on her teaching job. When he organizes...

The Disruption by W.H. Hilf begins in 2064, when engineer Tom McCreary helps bring online an artificial intelligence, GAIA, to guide humanity’s future. When GAIA exceeds human command and the world fractures soon after, the event becomes known as the Disruption. Forty years later, the...

Lyric Ginsberg’s Into the Breath of the Wind follows a man slowly navigating complicated relationships, including Adriana, Hunter, and Serene. The story shifts from inward reflection to emotional closeness and dreamlike scenes where imagination and reality begin to overlap in subtle, simple ways. The narrator...

In Power There's Silence by Adam N. Dix starts when Billy White stepped into Trina Rose’s cantina. After a while, Billy proposed to Trina, and a year later, their son, Blythe, was born. When Blythe was eight years old, Billy drove away toward the big...

Won’t You Give Me Some of Your Love? by Nathan Nicolau is an anthology of original short fiction that bends the imagination and takes readers through bite-sized moments in divergent spaces. In Good Deeds, Sam, an ex-con tending a failing bar, becomes entangled in the...

In A Fall for Grace by G.M. Parrillo, Grace Cartino discovers that her husband Hank is having an affair. She leaves their marriage and takes her sons to her family’s shore house, expecting distance to simplify what comes next. Instead, her decision reopens a past...

Scribe of the Heart by Floresta Báz is set in 1893 London, where Haley Richardson’s orderly life ends when her father Walter, a bookseller and printer, is imprisoned over debts connected to the powerful Daily Mirror. Removed from her home and placed among families tied...

Morning of a Crescent Moon by N. J. Schrock is a closely observed work of historical fiction set in Virden, Illinois, at the close of the nineteenth century, where everyday life unfolded during mounting labor unrest. The novel opens with striking imagery that establishes place...

Psychotropia: Maestro's Creed by Bill Reinert is a dystopian novel set in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest. The story follows Liam, a grieving widower, as he embarks on a desperate quest to recover his late wife Joan's stolen ashes. What begins as a personal mission quickly...

Afterglow by Troy Kotanides is a psychological drama following Edyn, a 32-year-old man who has psychogenic amnesia, a very rare form of retrograde amnesia in which one loses all memories after some traumatic incident. Coming back to his psychologist, Dr. Gordon Raine, after a gap...