Runika “Run” Long, a young woman born and raised in the Lower East Side of New York, knew what it felt like to exist and not be seen and heard. It was the reason she had chosen life in foster care over one with her...

In Smoky Blue Sunrise by Lucille Guarino, Jolie-Mae Buckley leaves her South Carolina hometown in the aftermath of her sister Katy-June's death in a car accident. Jolie takes a live-in nanny position with Amanda and Jesse, a physician and an attorney with two young children...

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...

In A Second Chance by Asher Frend, Oak Haven teenagers Mikaila Emery, her older sister Kaitlyn, and their best friend Chara Wilson move through the same town under very different pressures. Mikaila believes she has been given limited time to protect Chara after a disturbing...

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...

Carrion by Adam Caisse follows Roval Gul, an appointed custodian of the dead in the city of Carenmar, when so many are dying. His duties place him at furnaces, roads, and battle sites, where he observes patterns suggesting that decay is being altered by a...

G.M. Parrillo brings us an emotionally charged contemporary romance in A Fall for Grace. Grace Nereid is married and a mother of two amazing boys. But her marriage is falling apart, and Grace is tired of the lies and emotional abuse from her husband. She...

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...