A forty-five-year-old gambler named Joey Mumbai gets into big trouble with a sectid mobster, Fat Okko. Joey owes him one million Determinations of Official Worth, or dows. Fat Okko finds out that Joey inherited Space Station Halcyon from his billionaire father. The sectid sees an...

An Aspiration to Lie Flat by Stanton Fenwick is a hilarious story of a man with one big ambition in life: to be left alone. But when he wins a corporate sweepstake and is thrust into stardom on the internet, all his plans are shot...

Danny Teakwell tries to live a peaceful life in Hollywood, Florida. He is the guardian of bright twelve-year-old Jessica Jewell as the legal process of her adoption continues. Danny runs a surf shop called Nine Lives and is still dealing with old wounds after the...

The Whooping Falls Warriors, a bush league team, had had a terrible season yet again and were glad it was over. Chad Smith, a pitcher for the Warriors who was designated the losing pitcher in the last game, is not happy about being cut from...

That McKenzie Girl by Jesse Gordon is a fun, lighthearted, slice-of-life story. Twenty-one-year-old Victor Navarro lives with his best friend, a gamer who livestreams in his underwear, called Brand. Victor isn't at a great stage in life, but Brand needs him—he's in free fall after...

Bunny, The Hidden Record by Her Majesty of Ink and Exit Wounds is set in Velinwood Court, where the Queen has withdrawn from the throne. Bunny shows us the strange world that's been formed, walking us through preserved hidden chambers and others in strange use....

In Baseball, Birthday, and Ten-Cent Beer by Gregg Sapp, Solomon Zuch loves baseball, and his favorite team is the Cleveland Indians. The Indians' management runs a lottery for home games to pick birthday boys to serve as honorary ballboys. Plans were made for the entire...

In Ken Breniman's a three body solution, during a period of political collapse, Tâm, Chip, and TaDoo become internationally famous after presenting their committed thruple as a public alternative to fear-driven leadership and social isolation. Their rise begins with the MMMurphyBed, a futuristic invention that...

Elizabeth Diane Adams' Fully Average is the story of Melissa Jolene Bonetti, who, in spite of her constant sense of dread, considers herself lucky. She has a long-term boyfriend and a steady accounting job, but her life implodes spectacularly when she discovers that her boyfriend...

Jeff Nesbit’s Autocrat is satirical, grotesque, and timely; it follows a narcissistic reality TV host named Rex Vanner who launches and wins the 2015 presidential campaign. But his leverage is a network contract, and what he succeeds in summoning is the darkest impulse in the...