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Bunny, The Hidden Record by Her Majesty of Ink and Exit Wounds is set in Velinwood Court, where the Queen has withdrawn from the throne.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...

Death and destruction are dished out to the syndicate that decided to eliminate their top assassin in the entertaining novel, Bunny Slippers, by Matt Peterson. MARI is an international organization of hired killers, and Bunny has worked for them for decades. When Bunny chooses to...

The Infernal Twins: A Series of Divine Miscommunications by Steve Goldsmith is the tale of two immortal twins tasked with keeping track of everything there was, is, and will be. Styx and Stonez are the twin sons of Satan. In the afterlife, their father has...