Having used the Genius Charm to help end the Karasu Curse, Kismet Boon, a 13-year-old witch in training, finds herself stuck with the impossible task of individually releasing each of the millions of ghosts that she has accidentally summoned from the deep. She can't find a moment of peace until one day they all mysteriously vanish. Now she must free them from their cruel new master, hopefully without failing any classes or alienating her best friend who wants to be her boyfriend. Life gets...

In the sunless seaside town of Timbre, 13-year-old Jonathan learns that his real father is a werewolf. Worse, he's a stranger. Now "Jonny" must figure out how to break an ancient family curse that should have killed his father on the day he was born. Along the way, he falls in love with a young witch who turns out to be the cousin of a cousin he didn't even know he had. Awkward! All three kids must work together to outsmart the powerful faerie king Morgan, the mysterious immortal monster c...

The Roaring Slug is a monthly anthology of short stories written by authors in the Humboldt County region of Northern California. Each volume will feature stories inspired by a central prompt which changes from one issue to the next. This month, the prompt is “returning home.” Though they all cater to a shared theme, the stories included in this anthology vary drastically in plot, genre, style, length, and tone, ensuring that you’ll never read the same story twice.

In New York Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa’s groundbreaking modern fantasy series, dragons walk among us in human form…THE DRAGONS OF TALON: Once hunted nearly to extinction, they are now poised to take over the world.THE ORDER OF ST. GEORGE: The legendary dragonslayers will stop at nothing to wipe dragons from the face of the earth.These mortal enemies are locked in secret and deadly combat, with h...

"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.

There's a delicate balance between mental health and mental illness…Who are STRANGERS AMONG US?We are your fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, friends and lovers. We staff your stores, cross your streets, and study in your schools, invisible among you. We are your outcasts and underdogs, and often, your unsung heroes.Nineteen science fiction and fantasy authors tackle the division between mental health and...

A fast read filled to the brim with action, heartache, and love.A ship burns, sinking into the dark sea. There is only one survivor—a child hunted for the power of her song. Hidden away on an isolated island, Lilette buries her power deep, convinced it caused the deaths of those she loves.But she can’t run from who she is. And when her secret is revealed, the only thing that can save her is her song. It’s time to rise up and become what she was always meant...

The Cabal of Thotash has languished for years within their poorly-ventilated Manhattan lair. All of their rituals to summon an ancient malice and help it unmake reality have accomplished little beyond annoying the upstairs neighbor. When a charismatic sacrifice talks her way off the dark altar and into a leadership position, the Cabal’s fortunes turn around, as do their ideas about what it means to serve the greater evil."The Cabal of Thotash" is a wickedly funny novelette that pee...

Evangeline Miller's dreams have pulled into a fantasy world. Will she find the meaning? And who is the mysterious falcon-keeper? A short story of 2000 words.

What do a disabled superhero, a time-traveling Chinese-American figure skater, and a transgender animal shifter have in common? They’re all stars of Kaleidoscope stories!Kaleidoscope collects fun, edgy, meditative, and hopeful YA science fiction and fantasy with diverse leads. These twenty original stories tell of scary futures, magical adventures, and the joys and heartbreaks of teenage life.Featuring New York Times bestselling and award winning ...

The world in which we live is permanently poised between a series of extremes; up and down, dark and light, yin and yang... life and death.In fact the very fabric of what we experience teeters constantly on the knife edge that separates reality from fantasy.Sometimes it's very difficult to know where the division between the two truly lies, and often physical experiences and imagination share a hazy common ground where each one is as valid as the other. That's when matters ca...

After the end of the world, a young shapeshifter learns to open his wings...When Dalan discovers the last of a mutant species of beautiful, golden horses, he's forced to make a difficult decision.This short story takes about 15 minutes to read and is set before the events of The Last of the Ageless, a post-apocalyptic adventure novel. You can read them in any order, but the chronological order is: The Last Tail-Horse, When All Is Lost, The Beginning of the ...