Novella
Novelette
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(Surreal) Thomas knows this world is
an illusion, a "Black Iron Prison." V.A.L.I.S. tells him he needs
to escape, if he can only figure out what's real.
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(Superheroes) A kid who was burned to
death returns to life as a human torch, eager for revenge. Old Man Gasper has
a similar story, a different power, and advises caution.
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(Fantasy) Someone (or something) is
taking Grandma Harken's tomatoes, but finding the thief leads to a real
mystery--and danger.
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Short Story
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(SF Horror) Daniel is 17, attends a
British boys school, and is very happy except in those moments when he
remembers a very different life.
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(Portal Fantasy) Blank and Cipher
walked away from Solution City for moral reasons, but once they see what our
world is like, they have regrets.
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(SF) Ephraim never questioned God's
Will until the morning when the sun went out.
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(Dark Fantasy) Maggie's fisherman
father died at sea recently, and since then, she seems to have acquired some
supernatural powers.
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(Modern Fantasy) Pete buys some land
far enough back in the country that he's prepared for wolves or even bears,
and he carries silver bullets for a different threat.
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(Horror) Nikki and Samantha are on the
run from luminous monsters that are trying to kill them--and anyone they care
about who's near them.
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(Modern Fantasy) Government-issued
anti-werewolf pills don't work for Madeline, but the drugs from her dealer
are hit-or-miss.
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(SF) The not-quite-human narrator
mourns the death of his/her all-too-human lover amidst human mourners who
want to forget about him/her entirely.
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(Horror) Halla is an artist, and every
winter she rents a villa where she can work with almost no human interaction
at all.
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(SF) You work construction in deep
space, but you hear a woman's song in your head, calling for you to come to
her.
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(Military SF) Corporal Beckett wants
to avenge his father, who was killed by a legendary sniper. The rebels
against Terra sing songs about the sniper, and they may hold the clue to
finding him.
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(Post Apocalypse) Ket grew up after
the bombs, in a bunker with her anarchist parents. Now she's a bounty hunter,
seeking a very special target.
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(Zombie) Jay helps hunt zombies at
night, but he secretly want to find his wife's zombie to say goodbye.
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(Folk Tale) Sal, the country witch,
took a razorback hog as her familiar and named him Rawhead. Sal was a good
witch, but then Rawhead disappeared. Simple, but effective.
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(Alternate History Hardboiled
Detective) A movie star facing blackmail comes to Adolph Hitler's private
detective agency in 1937 London.
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(Horror) Yukiko's best friend just
died, one of her other friends has lost his mouth, and she's starting to
think there's a connection.
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(SF) The narrator watches a cooking
show beamed down to the miserable remains of Earth from the happy people who
live in the habitats above.
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(Horror) The singer in a band copes
with the discovery that one of his songs caused people to commit suicide.
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(SF) Melanie's mother wants Melanie to
stay indoors today so she can "spend all the minutes I have left with
you," but the fifth-grader thinks something's wrong with that.
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(SF) As the world approaches
destruction, the Beast awakens, armed with information that may stave off
destruction.
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(Fantasy) A behemoth offers to help a
fishing town that's running out of fish. It got off to a good start, but
things seem to have gone very wrong.
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(Paranormal) Fifteen-year-old Kayla
can predict the future, but she wants to avoid the bad things that have
happened to her other gifted relatives.
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(High Fantasy) An immortal assassin
threatens the new king, so he has his sister trained as the ultimate
bodyguard.
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(Surreal) The woman hears the attic
breathing, the birds and her womb talking to her, and she might have left her
child on the beach.
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(SF) Ella comes to Earth to find peace
after the death of her sister, and she joins a group of tourists recreating
the Little House on the Prairie series.
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(Fantasy) Unicorn hunting is more
complicated if the virgin freaks out and runs when she sees the thing.
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(Slipstream) An old man lies dying,
his faithful companion at his side.
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(SF) Palmer makes a living promoting
fads, and he thinks the body modifications called "stomata" have
enormous potential.
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(High Fantasy) A prophesy says Prince
Terasadh will either immortalize her empire or else destroy it. Naturally the
prince wants to know which it's going to be.
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(Modern Fantasy) If Telly can figure
out why his sensible brother Peter got into the occult, maybe he can figure
out who (or what) murdered him--before it kills him too.
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(Religious Fantasy) An old man quizzes
a dying youth in a place between life and death.
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(Horror) A mad little child speaks
only to the boarder, and her message is too terrible to believe.
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(Horror) Death comes for the
witch-doctor, but he's not ready to go quite yet.
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