Astrophobia: the fear of stars and celestial space. Thirteen tales of horror beyond Earth. Ranging from hard sci-fi to space fantasy, there is a story here for every horror loving heart.Featuring:Kay F. Atkinson - ImperativeK.L. Brandt - To the CrustJoe Butler - We Give Our Bodies to the Beautiful DarkFreddie A. Clark - GUDSKOMPLEXCarolina Cruz - Ontology of a Killer Robot; Or, I Think Therefor I Kill

Dive into "French Food Adventures: Two Yorkshire Sisters Discover French Cuisine," where Kay Atkinson and Jill Laurillard transform a sisterly reunion into an exploration of France's culinary landscape. After decades leading separate lives, these two spirited sisters from Yorkshire reconnect to experience the rich flavors and traditions of French gastronomy.Their travels take them from the apple-laden orchards of Rouen to the lush vineyards of Bordeaux and onto the lavender-scented...

If you've ever felt heartbreak, depression, confusion, fear, anxiety, sadness or loneliness after a breakup, know that you're not alone. In order to heal, we must first acknowledge the pain and address the wound. So this is for all my other hopeless romantics out there who've lived through the experience of putting your fragile heart in the wrong hands, one too many times…

So her family may survive, Cora will embrace the burden of unimaginable power.But if she could change her history, and heal all wounds… would she?Cora has been avoiding home. She doesn't quite mean to, but it happens anyway. A lot of things have been weighing on her, as the world stands to change yet again, crawling inexorably out of the cold inconvenience of community subsistence living and back into the gentle, familiar embrace of industry...

CERHA will reach her charge, even if it means obliterating everything she is.To a fabricant, there is no higher calling than function, and CERHA is no exception. A bodyguard by manufacture, hers should be a simple existence: keep Annalise Fletcher fed, accompanied, and sheltered from any harm that may befall her.The complicating factor, for both of them, is love. Their life together is a precarious secret to be kept from the watchful eye of Fleetops, but fo...

Dragonfly's body is not her own.Dragonfly is a combat doll: a living machine consigned to a life of endless bloodshed. Her fate is to be gripped until death by cruel engineering, whose strictures reward violence with pleasure, and threaten those who abstain with a fate far worse than death.When a single miserable stroke of fate strips her of both the women she's come to love, Dragonfly is in search of someone to blame, and she finds it in Torvei: a doll who...

Ten years following the disaster aboard the starship Upon Silver Tides, the fleet has changed, and not for the better. Mortality makes the greedy desperate. Wealth begins to pool as those hungry for opportunity exploit the vulnerable to climb a once-ossified social hierarchy, while those who fall away from the gold rush with nothing to show for it become vicious, always in search of another victim upon which to inflict their anger.People who just want to live their lives are a perf...

CERHA is a fabricant, and her job is simple: keep Annalise Fletcher safe, a role she performs dutifully and without fail, as she was designed to. Neither she nor her charge expected that this routine assignment could lead to love, but when feelings begin to bloom, neither see fit to stand in their way, and the two find themselves leading a shared life where both must walk a tightrope, precariously balancing between duty, and what domestic bliss is woven into the spaces remaining. For a tim...

Love, like chocolate, comes to us in many varieties-pure and simple, rich and complicated, sweet and bittersweet, and always memorable. Now, the creator of the bestselling Chocolate for a Woman's Soul serves up another selection of delectable new "chocolate stories," once again written by and especially for women.These real-life tales celebrate the many ways we express our love, whether it be for a mate, parents, or children-even the acceptance of your own self-and challeng...