"His shift just got supernatural, dimension-crushing, and very sparkling.Meet Sid. He's a security guard. Tonight, an interdimensional rift is about to crash his quiet routine, puking out four anime tropes who have zero regard for facility rules (or his sanity).This is a laugh-out-loud noir-fantasy for fans of genre parody, anime satire, and the eternal struggle of a single exhausted human being."An 80-page genre-bending novella – perfect for a single sitting."

What would you do if you discovered the food feeding your starving city was harvested from a living human consciousness?In the rain-slicked, suffocating maze of Neon Los Angeles, reality is entirely manufactured and memory is just another commodity bought and sold by ruthless mega-corporations. Jack Delaney is a data-detective, a cynical investigator navigating the treacherous line where digital rot bleeds into the physical world. When a high-profile case involving a missing "Shado...

The rain in L.A. didn't clean anything. It just moved the dirt.In the sprawling, rain-slicked landscape of 1940s Los Angeles, the war is over, but for Jack Delaney, the ghosts of the Pacific have simply moved into the precinct. A battle-hardened veteran turned police detective, Jack survives the daily grind of petty crime and deep-seated police corruption by keeping his head down and his bourbon close. However, his precarious peace...

It was August of '75, and the Los Angeles heat was mean, sticky, and oppressive. Sledge Jackson didn't need another job—he needed an air conditioner. But when a woman in a white linen suit walks in with a bag of cash and a story about ghosts in the Amazon, you don't say no. You pack the .44, grab the team, and go to war.

M.G. Phillips is a writer obsessed with the systems that govern decay, both moral and biological. His work, defined by noir-infused prose, explores the terrifying intersection of bureaucracy and the body. Where devotion is corrupted by ritual and the only escape from the ordinary demands a non-negotiable sacrifice. Phillips' narratives excavate the dark machinery of complicity, showing how easily individuals transition from victim to "functionary of evil". They view the ultimate horror not...

Under the sickly violet glare of the shattered Moon-Mother, the ruins of Southern California are known as the Wastes of the Angels—a post-apocalyptic graveyard ruled by dust, metal, and the slow decay of a world choked by its own ambition.In this brutal landscape, Kael lives by a singular, unyielding truth: "No gods, no kings. Just the iron and the grit.".A cynical wanderer, Kael is a man defined by his refusal to submit to any form of manufactured authority. He seeks only ...

PeeDee3, Season 1, Episode 3Short on cash, Peedee3 is freelancing and on the trail of an elusive time jumper with a price on his head. In order to collect his reward, the bug has to bring back at least fifty-one percent of the body, so PeeDee3's normal, "Disintegrate now and you never need to ask a question," tactics are not an option, making this mark a lot less fun and a lot more dangerous. For PeeDee3 things can, and usually do, get worse. It turns out the jumper knows he's bein...

Six Years to Delta is a queer speculative sci-fi-adjacent short story.Torion, a Class C cyborg working for Embargo Corp, wakes with fragmented memories and finds that they are the only remaining member of an interstellar crew of 36. The ship has a gaping hole in the hull. The onboard AI is cagey, the grey-shield protecting them from the endless void of space is wavering, and the humans leading the crew have not been honest—an unfolding paradox of events leads Torion to a chilling c...

Fired from her lead investigator job, Sasha Zero waits for the city to cut her access to the main AI.Instead, she catches a burst transmission not meant for her. Not blurred camcons in the gambling area. Not adjustments for the food processors.Something else. Something strange.Not her job. Not anymore.Except Sasha Zero never knows when to leave well enough alone.Even as her time runs out.Join Sasha's race against time in Zero Hour, a...

Alone on a station with only the voices in her head, Alphy needs to get in touch with the humans who are left out in space, and that means moving her ship. The trouble that she has is that the station was never designed to be flown by someone who didn't even have a driving license.Lexo has only been out of stasis for less than a week, but he jumps at the chance to leave his sister and her lover behind to seek out the bliss of the stars once again. Programmed to rage against the enem...

Jake Melkins is a few months away from turning twenty-one. By the Seceltor Empire’s laws, he will have to go to a breeding camp, or directly into slavery. Neither choice appeals to him. All this changes with the arrival of a space-and-time-traveling being known as Evaran at the space station turned rest stop that Jake lives on.To make things complicated, Greecho, the slaver who abducted Jake as a kid, has arrived at the station. He and his crew, along with his twenty-two-year-old h...

Deputy Coroner Clay Edison discovers that buried secrets can be deadly in this riveting thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write “brilliant, page-turning fiction” (Stephen King).An ID Book Club SelectionClay Edison has his hands full. He’s got a new baby who won't sleep. He’s working the graveyard shift. And he’s trying, for once, to mind his own business. Then comes the first call. Workers demolishing a local park h...