Dusk, some believe, is a time when two worlds meet and are divided by the thinnest of veils. It is a time when that which is not meant to be seen can be. The walls are down, and the windows are open.If one finds themself alone in the woods at dusk, when the fog rolls across the ground and your sense of direction is lost, beware. There are those who say something may find you.You may come across a staircase. It may be of rusted iron, or collapsing, weathered wood. It is a sp...

From the smallest ember to a raging bonfire, flames are a great way to shake loose a stuck plot or spark words for an empty page. So pull on your asbestos gloves, give the salamander a treat, and power up your battlesuit's fire suppressants for a month-long romp with the grumpiest of elementals!This eBook contains 31 prose prompts, which are one or more sentences of story. This type of prompt is meant to invoke a setting, emotion, or plot idea. They can be used in multiple ways and...

From sweeping symphonies to simple earworms, music is interwoven throughout our lives. Have a story that could use a little musical interlude? Then grab a pen and a Muse and take a stroll through a month-long adventure in song. We might not all dance to the same system clock, but there's magic in everyone's tune and a soundtrack for every story!This eBook contains 31 prose prompts, which are one or more sentences of story. This type of prompt is meant to invoke a setting, emotion, ...

THIS IS NOT OUR FUTURE.Welcome to The Dystopian States of America: a Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation.This anthology features dystopian views of the future, for America and/or the entire world, should the current regime remain in power. And we use the word "regime" very pointedly, because while the executive branch of our government certainly made for a ripe target, our authors were free to draw inspiration from the legislative branch, the judicial branch, loc...

Have a blank page that could use a little love? Or maybe a good old-fashioned swoon? Check out a month's worth of plot bunnies all ready to play Cupid!This ebook contains 31 prose prompts, which are sentences (or longer snippets) of story. This type of prompt is meant to invoke a setting, emotion, or plot idea. They can be used in multiple ways and I've included examples of those at the end of the book.The prompts are set in a variety of genres including fantasy and science...

In the past 15 years a host of critical thinking books have appeared that teach students to find flaws in the arguments of others by learning to detect a number of informal fallacies. This book is not in that tradition. The authors of this book believe that while students learn to become vicious critics, they still continue to make the very mistakes they criticize in others. Thus, this book has adopted the approach of teaching the construction of good arguments first and then introducing c...

This award-winning history explores Sherlock Holmes' creator Arthur Conan Doyle's obsession with the spiritualism movement.ASJA Award-Winner in the Biography/History CategoryIs it possible to make direct contact with the dead? Do the departed seek to make contact with us? The conviction that both things are true was the cornerstone of spiritualism, a kind of do-it-yourself religion that swept the Western world from the 1850s to the 1930s. P...

A great collection of short speculative fiction.Twenty-three authors selected by co-editors Rhonda Parrish and Greg BechtelNevertheless (Tesseracts Twenty-one) is a collection of optimistic speculative fiction stories, each optimistic in a slightly different way. These stories explore the optimism that drives us to seek out new worlds, that inspires us to sacrifice for others or fuels us to just keep going when everything seems lost and in ...

A collection of short stories, essays, art and interviews in celebration of Candas Jane Dorsey.Contains work by Timothy J. Anderson, Greg Bechtel, Eileen Bell, Gregg Chamberlain, Alexandrea Flynn and Annalise Glinker, Barb Galler-Smith, Anita Jenkins, Laina Kelly, Derryl Murphy, John Park, Rhonda Parrish, Ursula Pflug, Robert Runté, Diane L. Walton, BD Wilson and S.G. Wong.

Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most watched programming, has in recent years shown us a relentless series of hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and eruptions killing thousands, turning millions into refugees, and leaving whole cities in shocked, shattered ruins. Of nature's weapons, tornadoes are among the most unforg...

Love to wonder what's lurking among the stars? A sucker for colony worlds with crazy new environments? Enraptured by spaceship AIs that think digital watches are a neat idea? Then break out your pencils and snag one of these interstellar plot bunnies!This eBook contains 31 prose prompts, which are one or more sentences of story. This type of prompt is meant to invoke a setting, emotion, or plot idea. They can be used in multiple ways and I've included examples of those at the end o...

Pick up your laptops and pens and join the fight for galaxies, kingdoms, suburbs, and farms! There's always room for one more plot bunny on the frontlines (or the homefront), so join them on a month-long journey through the preparations, battles, and aftermath of war!This eBook contains 31 prose prompts, which are one or more sentences of story. This type of prompt is meant to invoke a setting, emotion, or plot idea. They can be used in multiple ways and I've included examples of t...