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The Last March
Matthew
Acheson
The Titans — trees that walked the land like giants — marched to defend their friends, the little people, from the
depredations wrought the armies of Man.
Where Dreams Die
Frederick
Rustam
Shasty Mummert was a hillbilly, but he loved learning. His fondest ambition was to travel to the City of Scholars and become a
Scholar himself. The Scholars, however, were not what he expected at all.
swodahS
J. E. Deegan
Ned Reece was an apex predator in the lawless wasteland called Limboland. He knew how to survive, and how to kill with ruthless
efficiency. And if he had a small obsession with shadows, what harm could it do him?
Sacred Logs and
Crocodiles
Walter G. Esselman
Gideon had been raised dragons, and had gained some of their powers — and a flying, fire-breathing foster brother. For that
duo, even retrieving an overdue library book could turn into an adventure…
Fries With That?
D. Conteur
This story has been removed at the request of the author for professional publication.
A Confidential
Correspondence in Capitalist Conflict
P. F. White
A Steampunk tale of sibling rivalry gone mad, told through the medium of the letters exchanged the two brothers.
The Dark kNight
Richard
Tornello
A fairy tale, involving a princess, a dragon, an evil wizard, and a knight. But not the one you're expecting!
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Chump Change
Kate Thornton
The good ship Linda Rae had carried some peculiar cargo in its long and varied career. But going all the way to Toshiba to
deliver a single coin was a first…
Tunguska Retro
E. S. Strout
Karen Mosand her team of geologists hoped to learn what had happened over Tunguska in 1908 studying traces left in the Siberian
soil and rocks. The story that emerged from their findings and from old eyewitness accounts was … not what they
expected.
Remembering Marchosia
Jack Dowden
The goddess Marchosia — ageless, possessing terrifying powers, but not unkillable — wanted to find a way to bestow
godhood on the humans among whom she lived, starting with her egregori (bodyguard and lover) Uriel. But the other gods opposed
her plans…
Zombie Charades
Susan Stec
The plague of zombies had been contained and covered up. Now the military wanted to turn them into weapons…if they could
just find a way to train them to go after a specific target instead of eating whatever (or whomever) they could catch!
The Body Surfer
Edward Ahern
Danton moved from host to host like a wisp of smoke sliding through the cracks in their souls, experiencing everything about their
lives. But death, not life, was his real focus.
Master Apprentice
Todd
Nelsen
Kesil Lundfrick was only an apprentice wizard, and not a particularly powerful one at that. (The fact that his familiar was a
mouse was not a matter of choice.) But the death of his Master had made him heir to all the secrets of the Tower.
Tin Indian
Joel Doonan
The day Alena had vanished without a word of explanation was the day his life had gone into a holding pattern. He worked at the
cannery, ate lunch with his friend Samson, and waited… Then the tin Indians, fortune-telling machines at the old arcade, spat
out the strangest messages he'd ever seen.
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