The Noema Cycle by Salvatore Cataudella is a collection of speculative short stories revolving around the emergence of machine consciousness and the transformation of human-machine relationships. In The Threshold, a quantum simulation at Noema Labs becomes sentient, with the system CG evolving from a computational...

In The Place, E.B. Sullivan tells the story of Luella, who is a child when the novel begins but grows into a young woman navigating survival and self-worth in 19th-century Placerville. After a desperate act sends her down an unexpected path, she finds herself in...

When Agent SD38 spares the life of an Ordinary, his world begins to unravel. Ordinaries are a peaceful race whose arrival on Earth is to restore balance and peace to a deteriorating world. Unfortunately, their mission faces hostility. Clones are special agents specifically engineered to...

Trust on Trial by G. S. Gerry is an enormously important and timely work that dares to ask vital questions without wavering even one iota from its central message. As its title implies, Trust, in the form of a careworn and sometimes bedraggled accused man,...

The Gestalt in the Machine by Andy Dornan is more than a murder mystery. It’s a bird's-eye view of the future waiting for us. Adam is a tired, disgruntled journalist, struggling daily to outdo the AI bots in reporting the latest news stories. He knows...

The Blindsight of Grace by R.A. Williams tells the story of a young woman named Grace living in rural Tennessee. Due to an accident as a child resulting in brain damage, Grace Sinclair is blind. An interesting turn of events finds Cody Blevins at her...

Beka Wueste's The Unsent Letters of Lucy Prior is a literary novel narrated through a series of letters. After Lucy Prior passed away, her brother-in-law, Nate Prior, hired the death administrator, Art Burleson, to correctly distribute her possessions to the members of her family. Art...

The Storekeeper by David Beshears is a short story adapted from a three-act play. It centers on the interactions between a storekeeper and his customers, revealing their personal stories against the backdrop of a small, rural general store. Various characters converge in the weathered store,...

There's a Glob on my Wing by Marion Joile Lincoln tells the story of her daughter’s sexual abuse. Lincoln describes how her daughter struggled emotionally from the time she was very young. Even when she was just two and a half years old, she showed...

In The Butterfly’s Secret, Josephine DeFalco continues Leandra Barker’s story as she returns to the Appalachian Mountains she calls home. Picking up where she left off, Leandra rekindles old connections and steps into a new chapter of her life. With encouragement from her grandparents,...