From online spaces to afterlives to bedrooms, small towns, and mortuaries, Under the Readmore follows subjects who attempt to find real care in spaces where the false dominates.These stories examine what happens when queerness circles the drain of 2000s media - and the aftermath of learning to live inside someone else's version of you.

Queer joy. Queer rage. Queer resilience.Eight speculative fiction stories by queer Albertan writers explore these themes and so much more. Dive into fantasy, science fiction, alternative history, and paranormal tales starring characters such as knights, mages, a bisexual cowboy, a necrobotanist, a grumpy (and heroic) Scottish lesbian, and Edmontonian high schoolers fighting the arachnid threat.In tumultuous times, queer people come together and persevere—wh...

Through these pages glide the undead.A chess player. A cookWriters. Students. Teachers. Lovers.The cursed. The damned.The grief-stricken. The penitant.The vengeful. The merciful.Ghostly features 13 haunting short stories from authorsAlix Kelinda, Finnian Burnett, Halli Reid, Jarrod K Williams, Jeanna Mason Stay, Kaitlyn Petry, L. N. Hunter, Lee F Patrick, Leslie Wibberley, Marie Powell, Rob Nisbet, Shawn L. Bird, and Theric Jepson.

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

**The first explosive thriller featuring Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren’t easily left behind...“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal.”—Lee Child**Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his “white static,” the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the...

**“LOTS OF CHARACTERS GET COMPARED TO MY OWN JACK REACHER, BUT PETRIE'S PETER ASH IS THE REAL DEAL.”—Lee Child*An Entertainment Weekly Must List PickIn the new novel featuring war veteran Peter Ash, “an action hero of the likes of Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne” (Lincoln Journal-Star), Ash has a woman’s life in his hands—and her mystery is stranger than he could ever imagine.**War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods o...

“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal.”—Lee ChildIn this action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado's mellowest business, but Ash may find there’s more to this crime than meets the eye.Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good fr...

In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into another--in the City of the Blues.Iraq war veteran Peter Ash is restless in the home he shares with June Cassidy in Washington State. June knows Peter needs to be on the move, so she sends him to Memphis to help her friend Wanda Wyatt, a photographer and war correspondent who's been receiving peculiar threats. When Peter arrives in Memp...

War veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer and his criminal family through the most forbidding and stark landscape he has ever encountered, in the latest thriller from the bestselling author of The Drifter.Losing ground in his fight against post-traumatic claustrophobia, war veteran Peter Ash has no intention of getting on an airplane--until a grieving woman asks Peter to find her eight-year-old grandson. The woman's daughter has been murdered. Erik, the dead...

**"Nonstop action at a machine gun pace. If you aren't reading Nick Petrie, now is the time to start."--C.J. BoxPeter Ash tangles with dangerous enemies and terrifying technology in the newest thriller from bestselling author Nick Petrie.**A man wanted by two governments, Peter Ash has found a simple, low-profile life in Milwaukee, living with his girlfriend June and renovating old buildings with his friend Lewis. Staying out of trouble is the key to preserving this fragile...

It is 1987 and the longing Sally Salzmann feels for the love of her life, Frankie Petrovic, is as sharp now as it was in 1967. In the twenty years since Frankie died, Sally has solely raised their son, Franklin, while never forgetting the man who still holds her heart. But when she receives a mysterious package from Frankie’s sister one day, everything changes. Inside the package is a note from his sister along with never-before-seen letters and poems from Frankie. As the contents carry Sa...

You wake up one day and say, I don't know who I am anymore. I'm not sure I like the person I've become. I feel like for years I have abandoned myself and my own wants and needs for the comfort and care of other people, and I want ME back. I want to stop living to please others. I have been too overwhelmed with everyday life and don't have time to address my own past traumas. I feel as though I am simply existing, just going through the motions, thinking I'm okay, but some days I realize I ...