Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill SubsDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights and defining ...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - May 2021Prey: A young adult with a secret must attend 15 hours of counseling before the government will allow him to commit suicide.A Wolf On The Bus: A wolf rides the bus, and is subject to discrimination by riders and police.Guilt-Edge Security: A traveling salesman at the bar is cleverly pitched a new product by an emerging planet on the r...

From master of horror Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media.“Clay McLeod Chapman is one of my favorite horror storytellers working today.”—Jordan Peele**“If talking politics with family has become a horror show, this book’s for you.”—**New York Times Book Review“Surreal, hypnotic,...

Three years have passed since Tenma Otori lost his parents in the devastating attack on Kukuri Village. He’s now trying to make a name for himself as an adventurer in Gunjo City, and things are going great. He’s joined the local guild and teamed up with a trio of identical catgirl triplets. In fact, his incredible skill and his knack for magic continue to draw attention—but not always the good kind. A group of jealous adventurers has their eye on him, and Tenma soon finds himself at the ce...

Eric Muller has been trying to hack the girlfriend problem for half his life. As a teenage geek, he discovered his gift for programming computers-but his attempts to understand women only confirm that he's better at writing code than connecting with human beings. Brilliant, neurotic, and lonely, Eric spends high school in the solitary glow of a screen.By his early twenties, Eric's talent has made him a Silicon Valley millionaire. He can coax girls into bed with ironic remarks and c...

Social media sensation Darby Hudson offers this collection of encouraging and humorous reflections to encourage others to continue expressing themselves, no matter what.You're Going to Be OK is a book on art, jobs, magic and muddling through. These hand-typed fragments were gathered by the train tracks at night over ten years, after author Darby Hudson worked meaningless jobs, trying to make sense of a strange world that insisted it was "perfectly normal."...

The fourth volume of the annual Unidentified Funny Objects series features the theme of dark humor.What happens when you ask some of the genre's masters to interpret this theme? The enclosed twenty-three darkly humorous tales range from black comedy to biting satire to morbid irony and everything in between.Inside this book you'll find Faustian bargains gone awry, time-traveling ghosts, flawed supervillains, talking hamsters, and much more.Featuring stories by:

This inspirational "magic-infused narrative . . . is a moving account of a young writer and mother striving to claim her own agency and find her voice" ( Publishers Weekly).Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself and talks her way into college. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject.Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches

In her steamiest and sexiest novel to date, New York Times best selling author J. Sterling brings you her her most alpha male yet. The result is a leading man who will steal your heart and make all your fantasies come true.After being cheated on, I made a rule for myself: No Distractions. No distractions basically translated into: No Men. And that meant HELL NO when it came to Daniel Alexander. Daniel was just like every other guy out there, only worse: he was richer than sin and u...

Finally enjoying herself to the fullest, online meme legend and new ace of Live-On Yuki Tanaka now leads a double virtual life—on one hand, her (mostly) wholesome and Awayuki Kokorone persona, and on the other, her booze-loving, girl-worshiping Shuwa-chan personality. But just as she’s getting into the swing of things, Live-On, announces its fourth generation: three new girls who promise to push the limits of what this cast of characters is all about. To make matters worse, the first girl ...

Queen Malice has cast her most dangerous spell yet!The wicked queen has cursed the Magic Hourglass and when the sand runs out, all the magic will be gone from the Secret Kingdom forever!Jasmine, Ellie and Summer must find the four Enchanted Objects to break Queen Malice's spell. But King Merry's ancestors lost the objects long ago! With the magic in the Secret Kingdom already going wonky, can the girls help Fairy Prince Felix find the charmed heart?

“I suggest you focus your considerable talents and effort on finding another career path.”From the moment those words left Agent Grant’s lips, I realized my dream of being a profiler for the F.B.I. was dead. All because I happened to come from a small town in the Midwest.Seriously, that’s the only reason he would give me.So I did what any sane woman with a heart full of rage and an Ivy League education would do.Pack up what was left...