The human colony on Timmistria is attacked in an escalating series of clandestine acts damaging food production, medical equipment, and technology. Colony manager Cara Harvestmoon, her partner, Paul, and the colony's leadership team scramble to increase security and identify the vandals and their motives. Can they believe the evidence that points to the vandals being a rogue sect of the native Timmistrian peoples? The acts of sabotage are serious and crippling to the colony's progress and ...

Cats move around. In fact, a cat’s very nature requires them to explore, to move from place to place. Even if their realm lies indoors, they still check out each window and watch every detail of their world.In this fantastic group of stories, cats roam from place to place, bring home presents from their adventures, get lost, and even find romance, as far as romance and cats go together.Follow these cats on their entertaining travels and see what they get up to.Inclu...

Magic is never a free pass...Step into a hidden supernatural ecosystem operating just beneath the surface of our daily routines. In this captivating volume, fifteen urban fantasy storytellers pit their characters against real-world issues in settings that are simultaneously arcane and all-too real. Play along with a gambler who discovers the terrifying cost of his lucky streak, listen in as a musician learns a hard lesson at the hands of a trickster, and ride shotgun with a detecti...

This anthology follows the same theme as Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel Volume I. In this anthology, 30 authors provide their amazing visions on the theme of time travel, showing their storytelling skills while delighting readers. These stories take readers to the past, alternate present, and the future.

Bees versus murder hornets—not just a natural occurrence.Beverly Nautilus discovers something strange during an assignment in the Texas prairie: a derelict sculpture of a giant bee. When she investigates, the sculpture comes alive and begs her for help.Beverly wants nothing to do with talking bee-ships, but when she returns to her city apartment, the bee appears and shows her images of the danger approaching—giant space hornets intent on world dest...

This issue, we have a pair of Irish-themed stories (one dark, one light) by Christina Hoag and David Dean to welcome St. Patrick’s Day. Of course, there’s plenty more original fiction, too: tales by Ron Miller, Grant Tracey, Susan Shwartz, and CJ Erick, plus a new solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles. And, as always, we have some classics, too: science fiction shorts...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill SubsCarefully curated stories from After Dinner Conversation magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of research. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.Story Summary ListThe Mind Reader: An outspoken bar patron runs an experiment to see if the wo...

It's time to turn the "man and his dog wandering through a dystopian world” trope on its head, and tell the stories about cats and their women - their badass women!Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse wanders through broken worlds with stories of survival, technology, magic, and sheer determination. But – like their cats – the authors frequently slipped out the upstairs window or knocked things off of countertops, and their stories are stronger for it.In these pages, cats help thei...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill SubsCarefully curated stories from After Dinner Conversation magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of bioethics. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.Story Summary ListSacrificing Mercy: A devout Christian refuses a heart transplant b...

15 Stories 15 AuthorsDown another forgotten hallway lie more unexplored rooms.Each room contains another world waiting to be discovered.Some are wonderful and beautiful, others are dark and terrible.You won't know which until you step inside.So take a deep breath, and open the door...Particular Passages 2: East WingFeaturing stories by:Edward Ahern - John T. Biggs - Dave D'Alessio - CJ Erick - J.T. Evans - Eric Fritz - Katie K...

Cats distract us. Cats make us think of things outside of ourselves. And cats love to involve themselves in human affairs.In this omnibus volume of WMG Publishing's notable series, The Year of the Cat, felines of all stripes pounce and play and stalk through 100 cat stories in genres ranging from light romance to dark crime and everything in between.Entertaining cats, loving cats, even super-talented and time-traveling cats grace the pages of these twelve volumes edited by ...

He was a large yellow man in a green world.When pirates disable his interstellar transport, Lonin, the first Timmistrian ambassador to the Co-Operative League of Systems, is forced to abandon ship in an escape pod. Now alone and lost on an unfamiliar human world, he is captured by traffickers and thrust into an international war that threatens the stability of the entire planet — and any chance of escape.With only his untested diplomatic skills and the timeril sense that al...