Alex can manage a multi-million dollar corporate meltdown without breaking a sweat, but a week in a shared cabin with his family might just break him. When an email itinerary for a Lake Tahoe "getaway" arrives, his internal Nullroom declares a state of emergency.The mission: survive a week of his mother's anxiety-driven complaints, his father's self-absorbed monologues, and the uneducated, politically-charged rants of his hostile brother-in-law, Todd. The i...

For Alex and his internal team, there is no crisis more terrifying than forced mingling. When he is compelled to attend the Annual Industry Mixer—a high-stakes battlefield of glad-handing, schmoozing, and transactional small talk—the Nullroom is plunged into a state of high alert.Every handshake is a potential threat, every conversation a minefield. Spokesmind frantically drafts scripts for "spontaneous" banter, NoCaller erects impenetrable defenses against...

Alex is a fifty-year-old PR professional at the top of his game. To the outside world, he is a master of calm, a seasoned gatekeeper of public narratives who can spin any crisis into a win. But inside his head, it's another story. His mind is run by the Nullroom, a chaotic, comically dysfunctional mission control center staffed by a team of personified psychological agents.There's Spokesmind, the verbose and pathologically anxious head of communications; Ta...

Having survived his war with Julian Thorne, Alex is a changed man—more powerful, more cynical, and more tired. But the cold war truce is shattered by an irresistible temptation: Julian offers to nominate Alex for a seat on the Meridian Council, a secret society of kingmakers who truly control the world. The price of admission? A single, morally repugnant task that goes against everything Alex used to stand for.The offer splits his internal Nullroom in two. Voidseeker, his impulsive...

The game has changed. Alex's carefully ordered world is shattered by the arrival of Julian Thorne, a brilliant, ruthless, and utterly amoral rival who doesn't just want to win—he wants to conquer. When Julian discovers Alex's one true vulnerability—his fierce loyalty to his sister, Sarah, and her family—he launches a vicious, calculated attack not on Alex's business, but on their lives.To protect his family, Alex is forced to make a deal with a devil, taking on a morally bankrupt b...

Science fiction also deals with the sea. How will technology allow us to explore those other worlds beneath the waves? Who will we find?Join us for voyages of discovery to the depths, as the Boundary Shock Quarterly writers go sailing.

Witches. Who doesn’t need more witches in their life?These pages contain stories of witches, big and small.There to save a baby’s life. Or perhaps a town. Or searching for a helping hand, a friend, or even a very special book.If you’re looking for upbeat, contemporary stories with just that little bit of extra sparkle, you need this anthology!Issue Four of Cutter’s Final Cut: dedicated to pushing the boundaries of genre fiction.Be sure to pick up the...

Will every tomorrow be worse? Join an international group of science fiction writers to find out

Moles.Seriously?Yes. Mostly seriously.Chemists, Zoologists, Dermatologists, Government Agencies, and Mexican Food.Over a dozen modern authors offer their take on an Interpretation of Moles. Every kind, every definition.From silly to sublime, this anthology takes you on a wild ride, where the only rule was that it had to include moles. And to be entertaining.Come revel with us.

Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of love shape the ways human beings migrate but also create meaning for migrants, their families, and their societies. Looking at sources ranging from let...

Nuns. With Guns.Nuns. With Guns.I challenged folks to give me a story with that as their theme. Here are nearly twenty authors who answered that crazy call, ranging from fantasy to science fiction. Modern. Historic. Urban fantasy and gritty realism.Come with us now on an amazing journey into other lands and other minds, as we explore what it means to first become a nun, and then to take up the sword.Or the gun.----Part of the Blaze Ward Prese...

Cloak And Dagger.These words were the inspiration, the dare I put to the writers out there. Create for me art on that theme. They responded with music, words, and excitement.Science fiction, urban fantasy, or sword and sorcery fantasy. Come explore the many places that twenty-odd visionaries went when they heard those words and enjoy all the bright and dark places you might go.Part of the Blaze Ward Presents anthology series, be sure to get them all wherever you get yo...