Every television on Earth turns on simultaneously, the entire world is forced to watch a single, desperate message: a woman pleading for humanity to hide. But she isn't from the future she's from a simulation that ended hours before ours is set to.Ceara and Damon, two brilliant minds working with a quantum computer at the edge of reality, discover the shocking truth: their world may be just another layer of a grand simulation. As they delve deeper into the sentient lattice of Ourob...

Veyra is dying by inches. Every hour the siege tightens, and every hour necromancer-midwife Maren Aster trades her own warmth to keep another heartbeat going. When the council drags General Kael Rhyx, a dragon-born weapon with heat in his veins, into her ward and binds them with an oath that punishes distance, she gains the one thing she swore to avoid—power on a scale that can save or ruin a city.Beneath Veyra sleeps a bone-wyrm, ...

Love: The Art of FallingBy Guy Roberts One feeling. A thousand faces. Through the decades of falling hard.In this first volume of Guy Roberts' captivating new anthology series, romance is reimagined through short stories that span generations. Each story unveils a fresh chapter of desire in different decades apart ,with loyaly , heartbreak, and devotion. Whether love begins in a rainstorm, blooms on a broken promise, or thr...

One Golden Summer...When Toronto food stylist Leah Carter agrees to run her aunt's bakery in Prince Edward County for two months, she tells herself it's a pit stop—a summer of flour, lake breezes, and an easy escape back to the city.Then she runs into Noah Barrett—her first love, now a rising winemaker with a reputation as "the Prince of the County." His pitch is simple: partner with him for the Harvest Festival, pairing her pastries with his wines. The catch? Three weekend...

Chains of LightBy Guy RobertsThe world stopped turning—and humanity's clock began to run out.When Earth's rotation suddenly halts, the planet fractures into two extremes: one side scorched beneath eternal fire, the other locked in an endless frozen night. In the dying hours before both hemispheres collapse, cities descend into chaos, governments cling to power, and a desperate last-ditch A.I. project promises salvation… but only if it can be brought online in time.

Everspire is freezing to death—politely. The Chancellor's new ration scheme buys bread with blood, and winter sharpens into policy. Liora Thimble binds honest, everyday vows—return the shovel; feed the cat; check the center of the stone—but this crisis asks for a bigger stitch. Enter Kael, the Crown's quiet emissary whose touch can turn breath to frost. Their solution is outrageous and simple: a consent-first bond, rules written in ink and kindness, and a promise to never spend gestures th...

Confidence IntervalHarp banter, ethical stakes, cozy competence; a fresh spin on "opposites attract" .A statistics PhD who believes in clean data and reversible decisions has finally built an app that optimizes the only thing numbers shouldn't touch: love. Lila Sethi's "Plus-One" doesn't rank people—it engineers exits, consent, and second chances. Then the model hits its wildest outlier: Micah Cole, the firefighter-turned-influence...

When a canceled TV showrunner flees the headlines for the far edge of the map, Sloane Ito lands at Kelp & Copper FM—Ocean's End, Washington's stubborn little community station. She's here to make a live radio play season, keep her head down, and remember what craft feels like when no one's doom-scrolling it.Beck Calder, prickly station manager and single dad, keeps the place on air with copper tape, laminated checklists, and a world-class suspicion of fame. He has ...

Prince Rupert, 1949. After years at a coastal residential school, sixteen-year-old Ila steps off the ferry and learns her beloved aunt Ada has been taken to Miller Bay—the TB hospital across the water that swallows names. Visits are "complicated." Mail goes missing. The law says patients who leave must be returned.Ila begins to write anyway. Her letters travel by laundry cart and outfall pipe; Ada's diary pages come back stitched into hems. A young...

Four runes. Three friends. One winter to breathe.When failing cod runs and a creeping illness drain a remote Arctic village, linguist Elin Kaarina returns home to digitize parish records—and uncovers a palimpsest of glowing runes meant to keep a community in balance. With Mikkel Rauti, a reindeer herder guarding his grazing routes, and Kiri Olander, a wind-turbine tech who believes good machines can be nei...

Across the Moon, the Belt, and a red city that calls itself Unowned, a handful of mechanics, clerks, pilots, and switchboard saints decide civilization shouldn't be something you pay to survive. They trade tolls for bonds, secrets for windows, and panic for the kind of boredom that keeps people alive. From lunar porches with jaw‐switches to Belt storms that need a conductor—not a chair—each doctrine they hammer together (Window Com...

When a star-smith saves a volatile ingot from the river's edge, Ariadne Flint earns more than a ledger entry—she earns a partner. Lucian Orion, a fallen knight who broke his own blade rather than obey a tyrant, needs a maker who won't bow. Bound by a chain of their own design—ask / answer / affirm—they enter the celestial Accord, where champions and smiths shape law as surely as steel.Zenith's Regent, Severin Vale, gilds harm with spectacle, and illusionist Vesper Lux is his brighte...