Underland Arcana slips through the cracks, bringing with it the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. This issue contains stories by Brandon Crilly, Manfred Gabriel, Christi Nogle, Catherine Hansen, Ro Smith, Vera Hadzic, Jetse de Vries, A. P. Howell, Forrest Aguirre, Lorraine Schein, and Sarah Day. Stories about preserving planets, stories about seeking solace, stories about course catalogs, stories about strange circumstances, and stories that unfold on the periphery o...

What really goes on behind the scenes in the mysterious world of community theatre? Dreamcast is a look at the most underpaid volunteers on the planet, those who serve the muse of live theatre in the small towns and suburbs of America. A local amateur production of "The Sound of Music" unleashes vengeful nuns, a Korean beer connoisseur, a randy director, a flamboyant choreographer, an obsessive stalker, a brat who knows all the songs from "Wicked" and a pot-smoker who lives in a public bat...

The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion that woke up critics, book clubs, and women everywhere.For a group of four New York friends the past decade has been defined largely by marriage and motherhood, but it wasn’t always that way. Growing up, they had been told that their generation would be different. And for a while this was true. They went to good colleges and began high-powered...

"Life's too short. I'm not."You might know her as a Tony Award-winning Broadway star, who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in the smash musical Wicked and won a Tony for 1999's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Or you may recognize her from her starring roles on TV -- The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Sesame Street...oh, and her Huge Hit Sitcom Kristin on NBC. (Huge hit. L.A. breast-implant huge. Ask ...

With his hated father dead, a man's life takes a dangerous turn.He doesn't cry when his father, Frank, dies. The old man was an abusive, self-absorbed drunk, and when cancer takes him to his deathbed, his son is there to watch. At Frank's final moment he leans over and whispers in his ear, letting the dying man know that he's glad to see him go.His only inheritance is a heavy, leather-bound book. He has never seen it before, and has trouble believing that hi...

Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize.Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husb...

"A world straight from the pages of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel . . . An extraordinary story about coming of age . . . and discovering who you are." — ParadeRescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman . . .Opening the tarnished brass lock of a red leather diary found in the basement of a New York City apartment building, New York Time...

Includes a 2015 Derringer Award winning short story: "The Kaluki Kings of Queens."Come meet the relatives. As diverse in theme and mood as the city itself, these stories take us from from the explosive excitement of the New York City Marathon to a secret cellar in Queens, from the warmth of an immigrant culture to the moneyed New York art world, and from brutality and poverty to Wall Street's privileged thugs. What the families have in common is this: their lives ha...

What happens when plastic surgery goes terribly wrong?Kim Westfall spent the first 23 years of her life feeling inadequate. Her lifelong desire was to be a curvaceous woman, but after breast implant surgery she felt anything but glamorous as her dream of being a foxy chick turned into a living nightmare.Tonya Thomas writes gripping stories about issues that affect women today. She lives in Newark, NY with her husband and two cats, Sasha and Simka.For more informatio...

I dont see why I have to become this new person just because I like guys. Most of who I am has nothing to do with who I hump.Will's never been obvious about being gay. Not like Daniel, who takes the heat -- and the beatings -- at Spencer High. But then Will's best friend outs him on Facebook, and his small-town life starts to spin out of control. If he's not like everyone else, and he's not like Daniel, then who is he?

From New York Times Bestselling Author Liliana RhodesGiaMy entire life I've always done what others wanted. Until I met him. Dante is mysterious, rough, and makes me think things a good girl like me shouldn't. Loving him could cost me my family, leaving him would cost me my life. He's a killer, a mafia hit man, and my protector.DanteGia's a good girl. She should have nothing to do with me, but she's awakened feelings in me I ...

Working on his model railroad set is more than just a hobby for John Wilson, it's his desperate attempt to fix the ghosts of his childhood. But his obsession with his creation may have an unexpected side-effect...Short Story, approx. 2,500 words