Wellington. The wind city. New Zealand's home of art and culture, but darker forces, forgotten forces, are starting to reappear. Aotearoa's displaced iwi atua – the patupaiarehe, taniwha, and ponaturi of legend – have decided to make Wellington their home, and while some have come looking for love, others have arrived in search of blood.A war is coming, and few can stand in their way. Saint (lovably fearless, temporarily destitute, currently unable to find a shirt) may be our only ...

Orfeus is trapped. Manipulated into leading the Order of the Vengeful Wild, she is desperate to be a mere singer once more.But relinquishing the mantle means damaging her relationship with once-enemy and current lover, Faol the Wolf.Luckily, Orfeus has the perfect plan: break into the fabled Cloud Forest gene bank, steal wolf DNA, and reintroduce wolves into the wild. What could prove her devotion better than restoring Faol’s favourite species into the ecosystem they both p...

Bria loves nothing more than running the lightways, the luminal network used to carry sensitive messages through the Nuit System. Never one to look before she leaps, Bria ignores her old mentor's warnings about a risky mission. But he's proven right when the Speaker Elect of Osiris takes Bria's bad news personally.Now stranded on an enemy planet, Bria will need all her wits—and the help of some unlikely allies—to get out alive.

“It was odd, being friends with one of the fae. Pronoun sets were the least of it, of course; Jeb even had human friends who rotated theirs, though not with the seasons, not as spring bloomed into summer mellowed into autumn crept slowly into winter’s sleep. This thing, the plants Jeb grew having odd properties and growing too fast, that had never happened before ey met Nederene. No one else seemed able to find the garden, either.”– Rem Wigmore, Grow GreenThese ten stories ...

Self-taught witch Ashley Robinson considers it her duty to protect her hometown Hamilton. She spends her time doing community work and picking up litter by the Waikato River.But something is badly wrong with the river, a sickness deeper than mere pollution can explain. Magic must be the cause, but is it a curse or something else entirely? Ash has to get to the bottom of it, armed with nothing more than the support of her best friend Mikaere and a pocketful of crystals.Then ...

Originally published by Selkirk Lapwing Press in 2007, Andy Hopkins' acclaimed poetry collection, Dark Horse Pictures, is a deep, dark labyrinth of language.

Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling is an anthology of short stories, poetry, and essays where writers pick a tired trope and are challenged to turn that trope upside down. Edited by Jaym Gates and Monica Valentinelli.Read stories inspired by tropes such as the Chainmaille Bikini, Love at First Sight, Damsels in Distress, Yellow Peril, The Black Man Dies First, The Villain Had a Crappy Childhood, The Singularity Will Cause the Apocalypse, and many more...then discover what...

"Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope."-The New Yorker"Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry." -Cosmopolitan"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."-Harvard ReviewSubversions of idiom and cliché punctuate Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle age and revisits the...

Haunted by starlings in the dark, a young woman spirals into an altered state of consciousness.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Three very short science fiction stories. Each is only around eight hundred words.

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.Table of ContentsFictionWaking by Cat HellisenUndone by Mari NessTo Increase His Wondrous Greatnesse More by Sunny MoraineThe End of the World in Five Dates by Claire HumphreyActaeon by Jacqueline Carey (eBook exclusive)

Shadows of The Heart Series. Vol 2The Mermaid’s Garden depicts the love shared between a couple as they fight cancer together. One is the support for the one who is stricken. Both feel the grief, the pain and suffering. As the bond of love grows stronger, the will to continue the fight grows stronger. This collection of poetry is written with the darkness of goth, the love of two hearts, and the will to live.