Jake Wood is a tough homicide detective with a partner who has been his best friend since middle school. He’s a few weeks away from marrying the love of his life when a friend calls for help from South America. Jake drops everything to go...

A young woman awakes from a harrowing ordeal, weak and confused but changed, improved, made stronger. Two agents on the way to the 1963 JFK motorcade in Texas stop off at a little town to give a young boy a silver dollar with a name...

Fisher is an ordinary nineteen-year-old . . . except he lives on a large spaceship, the G.S. Archean. Andrea and William Vaughan's 2nd Gen tells the story of the ship’s second generation, young adults whose parents fled Earth’s pollution-ravaged environment decades ago. Entering adulthood is...

Earl T. Roske’s Last Wave imagines a world where humans are quickly becoming extinct due to a genetic accident that has left everyone sterile. Those born last live longer due to miraculous medical procedures carried out in automated medical centers capable of replicating even the...

Beyond Deception by Nirmala Kasinathan is the sequel to Woven Deception. Starting in 2060, we see Abhijay, head of the MARS 10 Mission, heading off on Day 1 of the mission on the Vimaana spacecraft. It is Abhijay who is responsible for finding the Martian...

The year is 2128, and humanity has achieved the dream of settling on Mars. Rubicon, a scientific settlement, has survived from the exciting first days to the humdrum of everyday life in a scientific community, managing to move along despite decreasing support from Earth. They...

In the sci-fi novella Liquid Gambit by Bonnie Milani, Rick is a bar owner at the Bogue Dast Station, a talon-less, broken-hearted Lupan with just enough self-motivation to run his bar every day, dealing with rough crowds and authorities. He turns down his Lupan kinsmen’s...

Rebecca, the protagonist of Uncanny Valley by C.A. Gray, suddenly finds herself in a spot. She is working on an experiment to pinpoint exactly how creativity works and which parts of the brain are connected to it, when a speech by the president changes everything....

The eclectic Wrath and Ruin (A Chilling Anthology) by C.W. Briar starts with Escape from Wrath and Ruin, in which a young, amnesiac protagonist in a strange wasteland learns that deception is what he should fear most, not beasts nor a ruthless hunter. This is...

Spontaneous Combustion Vol. II is a short fiction collection that features delectable and, at times, mouthwatering tales from a selection of writing talent, including Maxwell Reagan, Claudia Ionescu, et al. The composition of this collection came about in a very interesting way. The editors gave...