Hang on to the edge of your seat with this exciting anthology of Steampunk flash fiction, featuring pairs of stories thirty days apart. Filled with rayguns and corsets, ghosts and gamblers, dragons and airships, Thirty Days Later features stories of intrigue and deceit, of comeuppance and conspiracy, of myths and monsters, of defectors and dilettantes, of time travel and time relentlessly passing. Join us in a nail-biting exploration of the churning worlds of gears, steam, action,...

Twelve Hours Later is a must-read for fans of steampunk.--Paige Lovitt for Reader ViewsMyth! Intrigue! Dirigibles! Literacy!Support public libraries and explore a world of steampunk fiction! Twelve Hours Later is the brainchild of the Treehouse Writers, fifteen talented authors, artists, and poets, who came together at the Clockwork Alchemy Steampunk Convention to create this must-read steampunk anth...

Demons! Vampires! Time Travelers! A Giant Chicken?The creators of Twelve Hours Later and Thirty Days Later are back for another time-turning read with adventure in the offing, steam in the air, and tongue occasionally in cheek. Join us for fantastical stories from fifteen authors, including Harry Turtledove, Kirsten Weiss, Katherine Morse and David Drake, Anthony Francis, and Madeleine Holly-Rosing as we journey through time and genre.Take a tour of Jolly ...

There's a new power broker in town: The person with the money, control, and wisdomto change the world! She is a member of a powerful group—a most powerful group that has been invisible to the world—until now.She is one of The Bloomers! She is the woman over 50 who has the capability ofchanging the world. Like a spent flower, society has relegated her to the compost pile—notneeded or wanted. Not so. You must read The Bloomers: Wise Women Creating a New World.

Blue Loop is composed of poems about addiction and recovery, using meditation as a lens through which memories of loss and harm might begin to be processed and accepted. It seeks to prioritize—and demonstrate—dwelling with the self in the present moment, avoiding the tendency to do what those in the recovery community call future tripping: our innate, strong desire to visit things not yet come to pass through the mode of anxious attachment. In fact, these poems are agains...

A buried curse. A missing friend. A night that will never be forgotten.Just when Harley thought the past is history, a cryptic letter surfaces. Her best friend Tess forces her to do something she resisted, triggering a chain of unholy events. One moment, they are chasing family secrets under a cursed moon. The next, Tess vanishes without a trace, awakening the ancient and the unholy.Alone, bloodied, and haunted by visions too vivid to ignore, Harley is thrust into a chillin...

What do you do when you are young and gifted and the world has turned its back at you? That is the wrenching question at the heart of this extraordinary novel about a seventeen-year-old street kid whose only escape is through crime**—**and the redemptive power of his poetry.Ballad of a Ghetto Poet tells the savage and lyrical story of a teenager caught in the brutal crossfire of poverty and violence that could send him on the collision cou...

A perhaps different rendering of the stories you should have been told!Written with the hope that when you have been, or have yet to be, faced with the decision to where your personal journey will lead, you will choose the path that will lovingly dance you into HIS warm embrace.In a seemingly male-dominated hierarchy of faith, the Big Guy upstairs has always included the female gender in His modus operandi, never to be shunned by the gender that seems to be more at a loss for...

The immortals have taken Mila’s sister.Mila is determined to save her, despite the risks to the only life she's has ever known. She'll have to face her fears, her insecurities, and her stupid crush on the boy who friend-zoned before they overwhelm her.Because if Mila can’t save her sister and the secrets she carries, the Immortals will take her tribe, her family, and everything it means to be human.BUY NOW to see what readers are calling "beautifully written", and "...

Flash fiction is a very, very short story. These 8 are just 250 words each. They are fantasy and sci-fi themed.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A thrilling collection of twenty-one original stories by an all-star list of contributors—including a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. R. Martin!If you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Twenty-one all-original s...

"Charming, melancholy, hip."-Publishers Weekly, starred review"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended."-Library JournalMatthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to "a field of titanium gravestones / growing warmer in the sun." The title poem is an elegy for the heroes and mentors in the poet'...