Every television on Earth turns on simultaneously, the entire world is forced to watch a single, desperate message: a woman pleading for humanity to hide. But she isn't from the future she's from a simulation that ended hours before ours is set to.Ceara and Damon, two brilliant minds working with a quantum computer at the edge of reality, discover the shocking truth: their world may be just another layer of a grand simulation. As they delve deeper into the sentient lattice of Ourob...

Veyra is dying by inches. Every hour the siege tightens, and every hour necromancer-midwife Maren Aster trades her own warmth to keep another heartbeat going. When the council drags General Kael Rhyx, a dragon-born weapon with heat in his veins, into her ward and binds them with an oath that punishes distance, she gains the one thing she swore to avoid—power on a scale that can save or ruin a city.Beneath Veyra sleeps a bone-wyrm, ...

Love: The Art of FallingBy Guy Roberts One feeling. A thousand faces. Through the decades of falling hard.In this first volume of Guy Roberts' captivating new anthology series, romance is reimagined through short stories that span generations. Each story unveils a fresh chapter of desire in different decades apart ,with loyaly , heartbreak, and devotion. Whether love begins in a rainstorm, blooms on a broken promise, or thr...

One Golden Summer...When Toronto food stylist Leah Carter agrees to run her aunt's bakery in Prince Edward County for two months, she tells herself it's a pit stop—a summer of flour, lake breezes, and an easy escape back to the city.Then she runs into Noah Barrett—her first love, now a rising winemaker with a reputation as "the Prince of the County." His pitch is simple: partner with him for the Harvest Festival, pairing her pastries with his wines. The catch? Three weekend...

Ashdown keeps to itself—one road in, one rumor out. Everyone works for Praxigen. Everyone goes to their "routine screenings." Everyone ignores the scratching under the porch.When doorbells start chiming once and stopping, when floodlights "practice" Morse, a rancher's dashcam catches something with black keratin tendrils threading a fence. Dr. Keira Vos is told to blame ticks. Sixteen-year-old June Hart finds a 1942 ledger stamped WARREN

Across the Moon, the Belt, and a red city that calls itself Unowned, a handful of mechanics, clerks, pilots, and switchboard saints decide civilization shouldn't be something you pay to survive. They trade tolls for bonds, secrets for windows, and panic for the kind of boredom that keeps people alive. From lunar porches with jaw‐switches to Belt storms that need a conductor—not a chair—each doctrine they hammer together (Window Com...

You can't deliver to a place that isn't real—unless it remembers you.Night-shift bike courier Rin Ortega takes a triple-pay job to the 11th floor of a downtown Seattle high-rise that swears it has no eleventh floor. The elevator opens anyway.Beyond the doors is a silent corridor lit in cold fluorescence—eleven doors, every nameplate spelling RIN ORTEGA in a different hand. A small parcel wa...

The Goalie Next DoorWhen pro goalie Isla Calder limps into Vancouver with a stubborn wrist brace and a chip on her shoulder, the last thing she needs is a neighbor whose power tools have opinions. Enter Theo Hart—quiet engineer, builder of custom goalie cages, and walking definition of competence. His workshop hums through the lane; his attention never wavers.On the ice, Isla's new franchise needs saves more than speeches. ...

When the dark comes early, they learn to light for two.Newlyweds Marin and Jonah inherit a battered lighthouse and a family gene for night-blindness. Renovation becomes marriage therapy: chalked risers, red headlamps, rails rebuilt, a retired Fresnel lens restored for display—not for drama. As winter storms batter their Salish Sea islet, pride and fear crash louder than waves. With a ferry-town full of helpers, they trade noble lies for plain requests and write the rules t...

On a 90s afternoon in Port Larkin, two strangers duck under the same black-handled umbrella—and an old photo booth catches the moment they don't quite dare to name. Cal keeps Salt & Silver, a stubborn little photo-lab where the darkroom smells like fixer and second chances. June, a hand-lettering artist fresh off a heartbreak, can turn a window into a promise. Together—plus Pixel, a matchmaking mutt with union rules—they begin to stitch a town back to itself: zines, Civics darkroom classes...

When the world's first quantum blackout erases every digital record, identity itself collapses. Bank accounts, passports, birth certificates — gone.In the chaos, five strangers are forced together:Selene, the scientist whose work may have caused it.Kieran, the soldier whose scar is his only truth.Aya, the artist who refuses to stop recording faces.Lena, t...

Confidence IntervalHarp banter, ethical stakes, cozy competence; a fresh spin on "opposites attract" .A statistics PhD who believes in clean data and reversible decisions has finally built an app that optimizes the only thing numbers shouldn't touch: love. Lila Sethi's "Plus-One" doesn't rank people—it engineers exits, consent, and second chances. Then the model hits its wildest outlier: Micah Cole, the firefighter-turned-influence...