Covens. Cauldrons. And Curses.The witch is a complex figure. Hero? Villain? Victim? Practitioner of a nearly-forgotten faith or just misunderstood? An elder who should be respected but is instead reviled? Or the member of an oppressed ethnic or sexual minority?Witches of every sort appear in this anthology, and its companion volume, Witches Save the World: Hags, Harridans, and Hexes Gone Right. In some tales and poems, the witch embodies the primal forces of balance ...

Do you often question what happens when we die, where do we go, is there life beyond this world? With my acquired knowledge and true stories, I would like to open your heart and your mind to the spiritual world, giving you a true understanding of Angels, Ghosts and Spirits, and how you can be just like me. Yes, I said it – how you can become a medium and connect to life after death!

A young girl seeks answers from an itinerant augur. A carnival menagerie introduces the oddities of the world to a rural Siberian town, and to an eccentric lovelorn man. An Armenian soviet bureaucrat has a brush with the afterlife.Stories by Sergey Gerasimov, Chloe Smith, and Jan Weiss. Translation by Julie Nováková. This issue illustrated by Sophie Derevianchuk.Welkin is magazine of fantastic literature, a journal devoted to the obscure and the outré, to narrowing the gap ...

Harmony Ink Press is delighted and honored to showcase the short fiction of some of the best up-and-coming authors working in the LGBT genre. The stories in this third volume of Harmonious Hearts represent the winners of our Young Author Challenge—a group of talented writers between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one.The stories in this anthology are as diverse as their creators and range from the speculative to snapshots of everyday life for people growing up in a society in flux...

Shayla Gainrad is a young woman raised in a splinter community of reactionary would-be settlers who abandon interplanetary society for newly discovered planets.Shayla has achieved the settler dream-a home on the frontier world Erde, surrounded by rich and fertile lands-but she is increasingly lonely, homesick, and alienated from her husband.Although Shayla has told herself to endure, events on Erde begin to push her new life into disarray. The arrival of spacers from outsid...

A strange creature grows in a garden. An android mothers a child. A student becomes enamored with her work. A Spanish inquisitor confronts evil. An immigrant comes to a haunted mansion. A group of teenagers goes camping in the woods.Stories by Eliza Browning, Laura DeHaan, Trent Hudley, Mahiro Saeki, Ndaba Sibanda, and Adam Slavny. Translation by Toshiya Kamei. This issue illustrated by Sue Choi.Welkin is magazine of fantastic literature, a journal devoted to the obscure an...

A special issue of horror and dark fantasyA vacationing couple spends time by the sea. A kindly haywain driver picks up a nighttime passenger. A lone man endures the apocalypse. A professional curse pursues his mark.Stories by David Gallay, Zena Shapter, Subodhana Wijeyeratne, and Marcelo Sáez Worsley. Illustrations by Zuzanna Kwiecien.

In a universe of harsh interstellar conflict, the practice of interspecies diplomacy—when possible—is important. So being a Colonial Union officer attached to an interplanetary diplomatic mission sometimes means taking a fall. Literally.John Scalzi's Old Man's War was one of the most popular SF debut novels of the last decade; its sequels are *The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony,*and Zoe's Tale. Other novels include The Android's Dream and Agent to th...

“Brilliant, hilarious, and oh-so-romantic.” —BuzzFeed“Swoony, steamy.” —Entertainment WeeklyThe Hating Game meets Booksmart in this swoony YA romantic comedy about two academic rivals whose relationship changes forever over the course of one unforgettable night.Today, she hates him.It’s the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals...

Following the exceptionally well received Solaris Rising 1, 1.5 (e-only) and the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated Solaris Rising 2, series editor Ian Whates brings even more best selling and cutting edge SF authors together for the latest extraodrinary volume of new orginal ground-breaking stories. These stories are guaranteed to surprise, thrill and delight, and continue our mission to demonstrate why science fiction remains the most exiting, varied and inspiring of all fi...

Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome. Here she turns them to opportunities: in a voice that is fierce, direct, and true, she explores and transcends the multiple boundaries imposed by society on the self. She mocks, with exasperation and sly humour, the banal exploitation of Indianness, more-Indian-than-thou oneupmanship, and white condescension and ignorance. She celebrates the person, clearly observing, who defines her own life. These are Indian po...

I've reached my expiration date.Not that it matters. We're all going to die.To Mickaela Capra, all words have flavours. Each emotion burns so fierce she carves them into her skin. The night she decides to press the blade deep enough, a stranger offers her a different kind of ending. One that makes her question everything she’s learned about the apocalypse.But truth comes with a price. Two rules carved in bone: Kill. Survive....