Utah hides its horrors well.Beyond the postcard landscapes and towering red cliffs lie abandoned mining towns, forgotten highways, ancient canyons, lonely deserts, and secrets buried deep beneath the sandstone. In these isolated places, legends refuse to die, faith can become terrifying, and some places are better left unexplored.Blood in the Sandstone is a collection of horror stories from Utah writers, each exploring a darker side of the Beehive State. Wi...

The League of Utah Writers Romance Chapter is thrilled to present a deliciously divided anthology celebrating romance in all its forms-from tender and wholesome to bold and sizzling.This unique, flip-style collection brings together romance writers from across Utah, each offering their own take on connection, chemistry, and happily-ever-afters.Begin on one side and sink into sweet, clean love stories filled with longing glances, gentle kisses, charming meet-cutes, and heart...

Class is back in session-welcome to Darkness 102: Advanced Lessons Were Learned.From the award-winning creators of Darkness 101 comes the next terrifying installment in the Darkness series. In 2023, Darkness 101: Lessons Were Learned dared readers to pay the cost of knowledge-earning the League of Utah Writers' Must-Read award. Now, the stakes are higher. The horrors, deeper.Darkness 102 delivers 102 tightly crafted horror stories, each exactly 102 words. T...

World-Ending TerrorFrom the creators of Darkness 101 and Collective Darkness, comes Collective Chaos, a dystopian and apocalyptic anthology.Journey into worlds where society's greatest fears have come to life-where technology, politics, and the human condition have spiraled out of control. Within these pages, you will encounter planets devastated by environmental collapse, alien invasions, and cities where freedom is but a distant memory.Each tale reveals the fragil...

The League of Utah Writers, in cooperation with Thrive125 and Utah Humanities, presents a look back at the first 125 years of Utah's statehood. This collection of poetry, prose, and essays paint a picture of Utah as a place through its history and its future. Journey with us through hidden stories of unknown lore, forgotten by folks and history books—sometimes even on purpose. These unique works come from a fascinating and diverse array of authors, each exploring what Utah means.Fe...

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features Deb Olin Unferth serving as final judge, four essays & other insights, and eighty-three of the world's best very short short stories.

New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a sizzling Angels of the Dark tale about a winged warrior renowned for his ruthlessness, and the woman who becomes his obsession…A tormented past has left Thane with an insatiable need for violence, making him the most dangerous assassin in the skies. He lives by a single code: no mercy. And as he unleashes his fury on his most recent captor, he learns no battle could have prepared him for the slave he rescues f...

In this action-packed continuation of the bestselling Daniel X series, the alien hunter takes on a deadly duo of vile videogamers from outer space!When Daniel X discovers that a duo of evil extraterrestrials is plotting to control kids around the world through videogames, he's determined to take them both out of commission. This pair of wicked game masters wants to destroy the human race by turning brainwashed videogamers into an unstoppable army of doom! They're a...

Romance is boring, so Sorawo has created a special kind of relationship with Toriko that is all their own, but she struggles to communicate what exactly it is to the people they know. Meanwhile, Sorawo and Toriko’s exploration and study of the Otherside continues. During their summer break, the pair take a job from DS Research to help a private military company do some anti-Otherside training at the Farm. And it sounds like Runa Urumi will be involved too...?

The loss of a pet through death is not the end but only the beginning. A special garden cared for by a loving angel awaits those creatures who pass over. There they play in peace and without fear, forever loved by this special being.

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we present our special anniversary issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction!, an all-science fiction extravaganza entirely written—and edited!—by women.Gu...

You can't kill the dead!Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative interpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic. Evidently, we have an enduring hunger for thi...