Get ready: the Carnival of Horror is rolling into town!Ten of the world's premier wordsmiths have been gathered in the pages of this anthology to bring you tales straight from the midway! This is no sideshow, our anthology is the main event! You'll hear tales about:A cotton candy hawker's secret…Trapeze artists seeking escape…What lurks in Kiddietown…A lone survivor in a changed world…How far someone will go to become a star…

Striker: Silverfur is one of the good two legs, she knows where to scratch, shares her food, and always accepted that, as a cat, I obviously know best. But keeping her safe is a full time job since the rest of the world changed -- and we don't like change. I've been with her since the beginning, and I'm no longer alone in watching over her.She's a rare one, my Silverfur, and we will help her out of this city and away from the dark things and vile two-feet who have turned this place...

Hearth Stories is a speculative fiction magazine focused on cozy fantasy stories. Each issue features a letter from the editor, author bios and interviews, and wonderful stories focused on family, home life, connection, and the natural world.This issue features the following stories:A Different Kind of Worship by J.C. PillardThe Washing Witch by Erin KeatingThe Braided Lintel by Amanda FettersTo the Scribe Who Reads This by Alicia Adams

Wind Words is a collection of travel poems inspired by nature and written in an endeavor to capture the many movements of the seasons and the lives of those who inhabit them. In her verse, Magenta explores love and lust, grounding and grieving, history and home using the imagery of the natural world as a catalyst for her own human experience. This first self-published collection includes 50 poems. These poems were written over the course of a decade and gathered here in hopes of preserving...

Meadow Woodson has been trained to survive. This is a prequel to The Murder Complex, by Lindsay Cummings, and it is set in a blood-soaked world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate. For fans of Moira Young's Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.Meadow Woodson's father calls it The Fear Trials, and it is a rite of passage in their family. Meadow is up against her brother Koi. The Fear Trials will both harden her and make her brave. If Meadow wins, s...

The new novel from Simon Ings is a story that balances on the knife blade of a new technology. Augmented Reality uses computing power to overlay a digital imagined reality over the real world. Whether it be adverts or imagined buildings and imagined people, with Augmented Reality the world is no longer as it appears to you, it is as it is imagined by someone else.Two friends are working at the cutting edge of this technology and when they are offered backing to take the idea and ma...

When Allaigna was seven she almost sang her baby brother to sleep — forever. She may be heir to neither her mother’s titles nor her secrets, but she has inherited her grandmother’s dangerous talent for singing music into magic. As her education proceeds from nursery to weapons ground to the rank of royal page, it becomes increasingly hard to keep her heritage and abilities hidden.Secrets, it seems, are stock-in-trade for her family, and as Allaigna works to keep her own, she uncove...

Ever wonder what life is like in Minecraft? Read Legends and Heroes to find out!Created by Stone Marshall, the author of the popular Flynn’s Log series.The Stone Marshall Studio is developing a new series: Legends & HeroesA hybrid of comic-book style illustrations and short stories. Each issue is fun, challenging, and engaging.These interrelated stories follow a series of characters...

Dark, feminist, witchy retellings of traditional fairytales – not for the fainthearted. Written for a teen audience from one of Ireland’s leading writers for young people. Intricately illustrated with black and white line drawings.

Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Now, in this definitive selection of poems, which draws on her eight major collections and includes many of the poems for which she is justly celebrated, Crozier’s trademark investigations of family, spirituality, love’s fi...

This shocking, suspenseful novel about a group of teenage girls living in a cult reveals the terrifying paranoia and suspicion that emerges when one of them goes missing. Perfect for fans of We Were Liars.Nine girls bound togetherin beautiful, virtuous Havenwood,a refuge from an unsafe world.Then there are eightone of them gone —departed with no warning.Did this member of their packstray willingly,or...

A poetry debut that's "a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively" (Henri Cole).Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adair's debut collection navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with a singular incisiveness and a rich imagination. The women in these poems live in places that have been excavated for gold and precious ores, and they understand the nat...