William J. McCoy and his wife, Olivia (Liv), are celebrating that they’re going to be parents. But on the drive home, the car blows a tire, and Liv is killed. William wakes up in the hospital totally bereft. He receives a visit from an odd...

After completing their first assignment, the six candidates of the Order of the Steel Rose—Mr. Carnby, Dr. Whitehall, Axel, Percy, Emma, and Jane—are accepted into the Order. However, they have many questions about the evil they encountered and the culprits in their custody. They soon...

DayDreamer by Michael D Chapman should be on everyone’s shelf, as a friend who is there to help in a crisis. Mental health has been hidden behind closed doors and spoken about in hushed tones. It is even considered a scandal if you know someone...

In Adrian Cox’s The Day of Knights, Graham Kelly is a Perth data-entry worker who loves medieval history but has no one to share it with. His colleagues dismiss his interests, his evenings are solitary, and his mother, Patricia, treats every call as a demand...

In Adrian Cox’s The Vessel, Isaac Valdez is a laboratory technician aboard a generation ship whose High Stewards teach that every conclusion must remain open. His sister Aurora, confined by a terminal illness, directs his experiments from a room and believes their research may reveal...

Homes by Hayden Thompson follows Dr. George Harrington over more than two decades as an epidemiologist who leaves his comfortable life in France for public health assignments across Asia. Being a single father means George has to balance demanding fieldwork with raising his twelve-year-old son,...

People I Know by David Joseph is a collection of flash and microfictions that grab the raw essence of the human condition in brief, powerful bursts. Written in gritty, minimalist prose with atmospheric depth, it examines the sharp realities of life. The narratives move across...

When an IT specialist and secret MI6 informant, Arthur Cole, is murdered at Broadmoor Hospital, his workplace, local authorities, and MI6 immediately launch an investigation. Senior MI6 operative Mason Montrose believes the Home Truth party, a far-right political movement he has been closely monitoring, is...

In Índigo, we meet Mark, a young man just drifting through California in the '70s without much of a plan until he starts volunteering at a suicide hotline. While working the phones, he forms a really deep, anonymous bond with a caller named "Greta", a...

Who said competition must be fair? In Lethal Succession by Ruben Elustondo, John Whitney, CEO of Whitney Corporation, decides to retire when he is diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live. To determine his successor, he sets a challenge for his right-hand man,...