In Dinner at God's House by Todd B. Lieman, on the night Erik decides he no longer belongs in his own life, a car ends everything he thinks he knows about himself. In the location that follows, his childhood dog waits beside a stranger who...

Nine Rooms in the House by Dave Ellis begins with John, who moves through silent farmland, keeping animals alive and retracing the path that led from crowded towns to empty fields. His account settles on memories that still press against his present, and those memories...

Valerie Allen’s Holiday Prankster is a short story that follows Alissa and her boyfriend, Randy, as they head to a holiday dinner with his family. It’s the first time she’ll be meeting them, and she’s nervous because it’s important. On the way over, she becomes...

A family holiday goes horribly wrong for Olympia Blunt when aliens invade Earth, killing millions of the planet's inhabitants, including her parents, and take her and several other human survivors to work on their home world of Borgomom. Olympia initially refuses to bend the knee,...

“You sit up in bed. This is where you’ve landed—fallen off the map, and no one seems to care. But that’s not new. You’ve felt invisible before. Now it’s just official.” That’s life in Eddie The KIng (the title is not a typo), a collection...

Tales of the South China Sea by Fred G. Baker follows Alex, Diego, and their crew as they work as pirates and smugglers in Southeast Asia in the late 1990s. Alex, a calm and skilled leader, teams up with Diego, a loyal Spanish-Filipino captain, and...

The passing of her husband makes Kreya begin to feel the inevitability of death creeping up on her. As she prepares Davaj, her great-grandson and successor for his inevitable assumption of the role of shaman to their people, she reminisces about the arduous journey she...

Amid the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children were disappearing. Under command from their top brass, Russian troops were abducting the children into Russia. Among the many abductees are Sergiy and Gleb, the nephews of a Ukrainian Air Force Colonel,...

In The Wayfaring Widow by Casey Cline, Victoria, an English widow with secrets of a painful past, is sailing to America in the 1850s. She’s hoping for a fresh start and time with her friend, Isabella Bird. Victoria is reserved, while Isabella is more gregarious....

Gia Bianchi, the daughter of New York Senator Michael Bianchi, had left home, trying to avoid an arranged marriage by her father, when she ended up at a rental unit in Pine View. Responding to a fire alarm at the unit, Sergeant Troy Wilder and...