This month we have stories that are all about people who never expected to be in the positions they find themselves in. This can mean anything from being trapped inside a dragon, to being trapped on a slab in the morgue. To each their own, and whatnot. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed from the elbow of...

He seamlessly weaves a crazy-quilt of characters who – despite being a little lost and befuddled by the world – have moments of chandelier insight into their own human hearts. Reminiscent of Raymond Carver’s Little Things and Kim Chinquee’s Oh Baby, Glass Animals is a work of sparkling vision and compressed and surprising language – all put to work to reveal a world where everything’s at stake. Lori Jakiela, author of ‘Miss New York Has Everything’ Ramey takes on the richness of his charac...

"The Desecrator" is an original short story from the Draegaran Empire, by bestselling author Stephen Brust. This is a tale of the Hawklord Daymar, and of a particular Morganti blade. Vlad Taltos fans will enjoy new insight into Stephen Brust's fantasy series.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the original stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during their fifth year. Included in this volume are twenty-four stories by visionary writers of short fiction, including Ken Liu, Nnedi Okorafor, Robert Reed, N.K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, E. Lily Yu, and more!CONTENTS

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.This month, we have original fiction from Megan Arkenberg ("The Crowgirl") and Norman Partridge ("10/31: Bloody Mary"), along with reprints by Kaaron Warren ("All You Can Do Is Breathe") and Alaya Dawn Johnson ("The Score"). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, ...

When little Rosemary finds a beautiful, magical-looking flower hidden away in her grandmother's dresser, she sets out to explore the woods near her home to find another like it. What she finds instead is Meriandor the Elf. Meriandor is stranded here on earth and needs Rosemary's help to get back to Elvenhome in the stars where his family lives. Rosemary is sort of stranded, too. Her parents are getting a divorce and she has decided to stay at her grandparents' house, instead of going home....

In this book we go in depth on the Journey's of Chester & Isaac venturing through Gladesville. The two are captured and taken hostage by an evil presence. Only by following the series will you find out.This book may be short but it is FREE. Sort of like a previewing of the next books to come

Some things happen whether or not you clap your hands.Enjoy this original short story by author Pat Murphy. In "About Fairies," Jennifer and her co-workers create fairy lands for a toy company, all the while cultivating their own personal fairy worlds...A Tor.Com original.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Love is like a dragon in the room; it can lay there sleeping for what seems like a hundred years then suddenly wake and terrify or seduce. It is powerful and swift, slow and cumbersome. A dragon destroys or protects, just like love.In her collection of poetry, The Dragon in the Room, author J. K. E. Rose chronicles her thoughts about love. People fear its power. They creep around, not wanting to rouse itbut are even more scared of leaving it behind. People want love but are afraid ...

Calesta, a medieval princess, wants nothing more than to be free of the tyranny of a man known only as 'The Tormentor'. Scores of brave knights have tried to kill him, to free the land of his cruel iniquity - in vain. He always seems to be one step ahead, he always seems to get away.Now Darian, once a henchman for the Tormentor, is on a mission to save Calesta and win her heart, over the dead body of the evil bedeviling violator. Calesta fears for her life and his, and tries to figh...

Blabbermouth the gnome has the very bad habit to talk when it would have been wiser to keep his mouth shut and that will cost him his most prized possession, his well groomed, carefully combed, long beard.He will get into all sorts of trouble to get it back and finally… but what am I thinking? After all, to tell you would mean spoiling all your fun.An entertaining and educating tale about how much must a gnome cope with to finally have his decency, his pride and some hair on ...

A sex-crazed pastor. An alien abduction. The fate of all humanity hanging in the balance. A wacky science fiction tale about the slippery nature of morality -- and aliens with weird accents.Tim Tracer lives in Oregon. A collection of his best short stories, STRANGE TALES, was recently published by Flying Raven Press.