When Marietta newcomer Elena Puente is coerced into attending a speed-dating event at the popular Copper Mountain Chocolate shop, she’s blindsided by a serious attraction to local cowboy, Wesley Banks.Still recovering from a broken engagement, the first-grade teacher from Las Vegas isn’t looking for romance. She’s in Montana to get to know the great-grandfather she never knew existed until she found some hidden family letters. Judge Kingsley is a grouchy recluse and he’s far from w...

YOUR BODY IS A DEVER DREAM is A cosmic body horror anthology from trans and GNC voices, a companion volume to YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY, and a charity drive all rolled into one. Over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming writers and artists come together in this energetic, fierce, and richly illustrated volume. Great unknowable forces, big concepts, space, dimensions, existential drama, good ol' body horror, cosmic dread, genre blending, weird formats, and creativity abound. Currently aim...

After being banned from celebrating the holidays with his stepfamily, San Diego businessman Lucas Kendrick arrives in Marietta, Montana, in time to attend the New Year’s Eve celebration at the Graff Hotel. The rodeo-theme party isn’t his style but he’s drawn to the pretty cowgirl running the dice table. When the clock strikes midnight and they ring in the New Year with a kiss, Lucas almost forgets he’s in Marietta on business and not pleasure. He believes he’s found the perfect property fo...

Embodying the Artificial examines how dance creation unfolds in dialogue with generative AI and related technologies. Grounded in ethnographic research, the book focuses on the kinesthetic dimensions of human–AI interaction to explore how generative systems reshape the creation and performance of dance. Through analyses of choreographic practices involving AI avatars and other intelligent technologies, the author interrogates the ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions...

He came back to save a mill. He found a daughter with his hands.Three years ago, Roman Vance left the only person who ever got past his guard. He told himself it was mercy. A Vance shouldn't bond — he'd watched what that hook did to his mother, watched a good woman go hollow inside a marriage she couldn't walk out of. So he gave a speech in the dark and drove two hundred miles away and never once asked what Marin wanted.Marin Okafor found out six weeks later, alone, on a ga...

Can love bloom anew in her hometown orchard?After tragedy strikes, high-powered Boston consultant Julia Hart returns to her sleepy coastal Maine hometown to settle her late aunt's estate. But Julia soon learns her beloved aunt secretly left her the family apple orchard - a place rich with childhood memories...and unresolved history.Now determined - yet clueless - orchard owner Julia butts heads with stubborn orchard manager Ryan Cooper, her childhood crush....

Zodiac gave proof in his communications for four attacks. These attacks spanned December 1968 to October 1969. The targets of the first three were male-female couples in rural areas. The last was a male taxi cab driver in San Francisco. In the taxi driver attack, police converged quickly and almost caught the killer. While other serial killers have also bragged in anonymous communications about their attacks, law enforcement decided that Zodiac's need for publicity was exceptional. There w...

Mystery, mythology and the missing head of Medusa. In modern day Australia the Greek goddess Hera and her Olympian family have accepted their forced divine retirement and live out their immortality in the suburbs of Sydney. Their once exciting, all-powerful, and totally worshipped lives have been replaced by endless days of quiet resentment and mystical reality TV programs. That is until Stheno and Euryale, sisters of the more famous gorgon of legend, turn up on Hera's doorstep asking for ...

¿Qué somos? ¿Es amor o capricho? ¿Cómo hacer las cosas bien? ¿Por qué he tenido varias relaciones y ninguna ha funcionado? ¿Cómo identificar si tengo que seguir o cortar la relación? ¿Cómo paso de estar confundido a decidido por alguien? Podrás encontrar respuestas a estas preguntas y muchas más en este libro. Mi crush te propone un camino de relaciones sanas, sinceras, profundas y divertidas. Te lleva por un recorrido desde cómo conocer gente, entablar amistades, tener citas saludables si...

What if the cause of your chronic fatigue, recurring inflammation, or that constant “I don’t feel well, but I can’t tell why”… was much closer than you think?This isn’t provocation—it’s a shift in perspective. For far too long, the mouth has been treated as a separate compartment, when in reality it’s a hub of connections: blood vessels, nerves, microbiota, the immune system. When something there is out of balance, the body often “speaks” somewhere else. And you can end up stuck bet...

What if your career didn’t have to fit into one box? What if instead of relying on a single paycheck, you could design a flexible, diversified life with multiple income streams working together?The Career Mosaic is a step-by-step guide for beginners who want to escape the trap of “one job, one risk.” Inside, you’ll learn how to blend freelance work, part-time roles, and side gigs into a resilient portfolio that maximizes freedom and financial stability. From practical time-blocking...

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...