"Ominous, fantastic, and wonderfully malevolent…. I felt the spirits of Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Albert Camus' Meursault, whispering to join the fun."— Alice Sebold, best-selling and award-winning author of The Lovely BonesA car lies at the bottom of an icy ravine. Slumped over the steering wheel, dead, is the most critically acclaimed horror writer of his time. Was it an accident? His son Milo doesn't care. For the first time in his life, he's free. No more n...

This is the inaugural issue of Underland Arcana, where the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird collide. It contains stories from Michael Barsa, Elou Carroll, David Hewitt, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jessie Kwak, Tristan Morris, Stephen O'Donnell, Jonathan Raab, and Rebecca Ruvinsky. Ghost stories, apocalyptic stories, stories about cats, stories about things that haunt the corner of your perception, stories hidden inside other stories, stories about cocktails and rivers and t...

On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the FantasticFrom its modest beginnings with a single test issue to its Aurora Award-winning present, On Spec has delighted its fans with tales of the fantastic for 25 years. What better way to celebrate On Spec's silver jubilee than showcasing some of its best stories?Spanning two decades of On Spec's history, these twenty-four stories and poems offer a tantalizing taste of the wondrous, dark, humorous, and surreal tales that have appeared...

Overcome by grief, Lucy needs to find an escape.The Scottish Highlands sound as good a place as any. Without a map or plan, Lucy sets off, never expecting to meet someone like Hannah, a woman who knows exactly how to take Lucy's mind off things...A short and steamy lesbian romance.

More Western wit, wisdom, and words to live by!Whether the glass is half empty or half full depends on whether you're drinking or pouring.A stranger's business ain't yours.We might not be so bad off if we had a little less of everything.Henry Ward Beecher said "the common sense of one century is the common sense of the next." This follow-up the multimillion-selling collection of cowboy wit and wisdom shares the sor...

His life. In her hands.A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision.debbie tucker green's play hang premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2015, in a production directed by the author, and featuring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook and Shane Zaza.

The torch could cut through anything—a practical device invented long before it should have been. It was so advance, not even alien technology could stand against it. And that was the problem...

Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair is the latest book by author William Evans, founder of Black Nerd Problems. Evans is a long-standing voice in the performance poetry scene, who has performed at venues across the country and been featured on numerous final stages, including the National Poetry Slam and Individual World Poetry Slam. Evans's commanding, confident style shines through in these poems, which explore masculinity, fatherhood, and family, and what it means to make a home as a blac...

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYEschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his ...

Welcome to the April 2013 and ninth issue of Uncharted Frontier! Our current issue brings you fiction dealing with the conflict of Good vs Evil! Every story in this issue highlights this conflict in it's own way, and all of them are thrilling and creative!Our short fiction for the month includes the following:When Things Go Missing by Deborah BrasketSatanspawn by Richard LawrenceMary's Valuables by Joyce HicksSandals and Socks by Raphael Prais

Privileged rich kid Fraser Jaensch faces a twenty year prison sentence for a shockingly violent crime. His attorney advises him that his only alternative is to become a subject in a top-secret program of radical therapy.Fraser thinks it'll be a breeze. He thinks he got off scot free.But he has no idea what he's in for.

A collection of short stories involving some puppies, a couple squirrels, a kitty, a cyborg, some aliens, and some Black people. There are other people in the stories, too. Together they'll be exploring moral relativism. What is moral relativism? It's a bunch of good fun! That's what it is!