Articles
Moon Called By Patricia Briggs, Reviewed by Jezzy Wolfe
The crime thriller meets a monster mash-up in the first novel of the Mercy Thompson series. Mercy is a Volkswagen mechanic by day and a coyote by night. Rather, she is a shape shifter, capable of transforming into coyote form whenever the need arises. Unlike the local pack of Werewolves, who are, as indicated by [...]
Speculative Fiction
The Circle of Stones by Patrick McCarty
A forest—it could be anywhere. It’s part of a “nature preserve,” a sliver of land between the highway and the river.
Literary Fiction
Eleven Seventeen by Travis Daniel Bow
Ames smiled. It was the first time he could ever remember smiling in the narrow, gray-felted walls of his stale cubicle.
Speculative Fiction
Her bare thigh brushed his, an electric jolt of skin on skin beneath the table. The soft smoothness excited him. Confused him.
Literary Fiction
Riding the Midnight Gloom by John Bruni
It’s been either two minutes or two days since I eased the plunger down, and I’m watching the stars through my closed eyes
Speculative Fiction
The House of Unrighteous Images by Megan Arkenberg
At any given moment, there are almost five thousand paintings in the House of Unrighteous Images.
Flash
Deal Down at the Hospital by Jason Sturner
“After I died,” said seven-year-old Cassie, suddenly free of cancer and wild in the eyes
Flash
On a clear day I can see the old man across the way. He stands there on his balcony, like a captain on the bowsprit of an old sailing ship, scanning the surface of the massive housing tower in front of him—mine. Usually, the air is thickly gray up here on the 97th floor, and [...]
Flash
Where Your Garden Grows by Sarah Wilson
“That’s right,” she said gently. “Out is dangerous for monsters.
Poetry
Illusion for the Web of Roads by Jason Sturner
We all begin: sunrise boat ride through the teardrop channel; exit to the entrance.