A broken heart is not a weakness.Sometimes, it's a blessing in disguise.Once you find its strength, you can conquer everything.Someday, your heart will be whole again.Overflowing with so much love.

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 have original science fiction by Indrapramit Das ("The Worldless") and Adam-Troy Castro ("Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes"), along with SF reprints by Rac...

ePUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book examines how and why experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain varied according to ethnicity.Drawing from the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS), the book compares the experiences of ethnic and religious minority groups and White British people in work and finances, housing and communities, health and wellbeing, policing and politics, and racism and discrimination in Britain. Using unri...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.If you're the outdoorsy type, our new short story by Simon Strantzas, "Antripuu," might make your next adventure a little more terrifying. We apologize if you're too frightened to enjoy that hike or camping trip! Our other original short story, "No Other Life," by Isabel Cañas, should ...

Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the violence exercised by European colonialism was not only physical and economic, but also ‘epistemic’. Santiago Castro-Gómez argues that toward the end of the eighteenth century, this epistemic violence of the Spanish Empire assumed a specific form: zero-point hubris. The ‘many forms of knowing’ were integrated into a chronological hierarchy in which scientifi...

Deaf from childhood meningitis, Allana fled her abusive uncles, she found herself living on the streets. While her home was a cold, unyielding pavement and her bath, a calm lake, Allana's spirit remained unbroken. Armed with her indomitable will and determination, she make a living by selling candies.Fate intervened one day as she helped an ailing man who previously despised her with cold apathy, unaware that her life was about to be irrevocably altered.Enter Dominique - a ...

The X-Men and Spider-Man must work together to stop the destruction of the multiverse in an adventure through the past, present, and future. Dinosaurs, knights, gunslingers, World War II heroes, old-friends-turned-enemies, and future versions of themselves await them on this incredible adventure...

On a savage backwater world, the last ragged survivors of an expedition to hunt down the infamous war criminal known as The Beast Magrison set off into an inhospitable wilderness in search of the alien village that may be sheltering this beast. The hunters are aliens from two different species, the village is inhabited by strange aliens of yet another species, and Magrison himself is no sterling advertisement for humanity. Who's human in this situation? The answer may surprise and upset yo...

Join Axolotl on a thrilling journey as he explores the pond and makes new connections. "Axolotl's Found Friends" is a heartwarming children's book with vivid illustrations and an entertaining plot that teaches essential lessons about the power of friendship. Your child will enjoy accompanying Axolotl on his adventure as he encounters a wide range of unique creatures, from a playful tadpole to a cheerful dragonfly. "Axolotl's Found Friends" is the ideal addition to your child's bookshelf, w...

Destiny "Dusty" Del Carmen is a bestselling author and much sought-after speaker. An invitation to the Northwest Urban Indian Federation's annual conference brings Dusty back to her "home" state of Idaho—the one place she swore she would never return to. Dusty does what she does best—smothers the painful memories of her past and picks up the smoking hot bartender at the local lesbian hangout.Professor Morgan West is eager to attend the Federation's annual conference and to meet the...

“At first it may seem an astounding coincidence that two members of a family should have considered it necessary to ask for the services of the same detective agency. I think I can prove otherwise, and even if I can’t, the facts remain. Alice Stonhill and Peter Wesslake did precisely what I have said, and what’s more . . .”So Ludovic Travers says at the opening of a case in which he joins with Bill Ellice and Superintendent George Wharton to solve the mystery of a novelist...

“Good God!” I was staring like a lunatic. “Murdered, you say? When?”“Less than half an hour ago, sir.”TRAVERS: “I don’t know why I should call this case that of the Magic Mirror for there’s nothing in it reminiscent of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” even if the mirror did do a certain amount of magical revelation.“As a matter of fact the title is my obstinate own. In the first place, of the many murder cases with which I have been officially co...