The Unbound Anthologies are a collection of short themed stories perfect for your reading pleasure. Every year we open a call to authors around the world challenging them to create never before created works of fiction, pick the best ones, and bundle them together for you.This edition, our authors received the challenge of “Changed Worlds” in the Science Fiction and Fantasy genre. And now we are pleased to present to you:Micheal Healy’s “Hail Bruce”Dainel Powel’s “Re...

From Lost Friends to Changed Worlds to Goodbye EarthThe Unbound Collection is the first three editions of the Unbound Anthology Series published by Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications.26 Amazing Authors26 Amazing StoriesOne CollectionWith themes of Lost Friends, Changed Worlds, and Goodbye Earth, eveyone will find at least one favorate story. Enlightening, dark, fantasitical,***Warning***The Unbo...

Sunburst Award finalist | Aurora Award finalist | CBC’s Bookies Award finalistChimerascope [ki-meer-uh-skohp] — a story of many parts…Doug’s second collection contains sixteen of his best stories, including an award winner, a Best New Horror selection, and eight award finalists. Stories of fantasy and science fiction that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity’s last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions t...

A bonus short story featuring Silhara and Martise from Master of Crows.In The Light Within, Silhara of Neith, now known as "the god-smiter," travels as the guest of honor to the winter festival of his father's people.The crow mage who destroyed one god must ignite sacred fires in honor of another. Yet the winter festival only reminds Silhara that the brightest light within him isn't the fire of a deity but the devotion of one woman.A tale of hope and celebration.

A short story prequel to the award-winning Twelve Kingdoms fantasy series, where a shapeshifting sorceress uses magic to beguile a warrior to save her kingdom.A wounded warrior trapped by the sorceress who knows him better than he does himself…General Uorsin escapes the last devastating battle, only to find himself alone on a mountain, feverish and no closer to finding the paradise that drives him on. Salena, greatest shapeshifter and magic-worker of her pe...

Darweena must choose to fight for the Forest Folk in an epic battle against the beasts. Will she choose love over her home? A short story of 3700 words.

The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies series returns for a fourth installment through the miracle of Kickstarter, bringing you eighteen brand new tales of beauty and strangeness."This book is in several distinct ways a look into the future: the future of fantasy and science fiction, diverse, strange, and wonderful; the future of these individual writers, many of whom are at or near the beginning of careers which promise to be interesti...

Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee is a story about the eschatology of shadow puppets.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A young man seeks to understand the strange connection he feels to the wolves that live hear his village.Originally published in the anthology WEREWOLVES, edited by Jane Yolen. Republished in Bruce Coville's solo collection, ODDLY ENOUGH.

Beth is a feral teenager, one of the few survivors of a catastrophic, man-made extinction event.She does not know what happened, or why. At night, her dreams bring to life memories she has tried to forget, and every day she faces the harsh realities of gathering food and finding shelter, knowing that she is prey in a world reclaimed by hunters.Existing in a perilous no-man's land, a strip of urban ruin that exists between the City, with its sealed environment and paranoid i...

"X-80 Oppenheimer" is the story of a young Patawomeck girl living in the forests along the banks of the Potomac river years after the fall of man.

Haatha Chaas'-Eighth is an Mmsar poet, content to live alone though his brothers all have families of their own and think he should have apprentices, too.Unfortunately, someone left a clutch of eggs in Haatha's back yard, and now he's got to deal with hatchling Mmsar, which are no better than vermin at that age. But one hatchling, despite its lack of sapience, has an intriguing cunning -- and a bad attitude.("Snips and Snails" is approximately 6,500 words long, and contains...