Drugs, guns, and pleasure synths. Zeke liked to focus on the basics.Ezekiel Aurora is steadily creating a name for himself in the criminal underground of Luckhaven, and a new smuggling job for a valuable client is evidence of that. It starts off smoothly, then takes a violent turn. As he struggles to survive, Zeke pushes himself to the limit, doing whatever it takes to get his job done.After all, he has a reputation to build.

An AI inhabits a human body.Targeted marketing invades a man's life… and mind.Programmers battle their own government in cyberspace.Every day, the line between man and machine blurs.Drones replace postal workers, AI-operated cars fill the streets, and our carefully curated digital lives become as critical as our actual ones. How do unchecked technological advances shape us? How do we shape them? Does humanity still have time to choose our own future or is it too lat...

The winter issue of HyphenPunk brings in 12 different stories in 10 different -punk genres.We have cyberpunk from Glenn Dungan, Russell Hemmell, and Armon MikalCapepunk from Jeff HewittSplatterpunk from Katlina SommerbergSteampunk from Gustovo BondoniArcanopunk from Chad A.B. WilsonIndustrialpunk from Matt BlissHopepunk from Steve ZissonSolarpunk from Christopher R. MuscatoAtompunk from Briar Ripley Page