Spores
Every hunter has a story of an expedition gone wrong. Every person who has held a gun has imagined what it would be like to point that barrel at another human being. Some decisions come down to survival. Other decisions are made…
Mumma’s House
The house belongs to them now. To provide for her son, June would sacrifice anything. She would live in fear every day and shield her son from it. She would stay, tormented, to hang onto his inheritance. This year, something is different. Forces in the family are…
Killer Savant
I pledge to yell at my parents, not brush my teeth, and tear up my homework.I pledge to steal the car, and shoplift candy.I pledge to burn down a vacant house, and stab a stranger.I pledge all these things because I don’t…
Distinct
Robby is seeing ghosts, and he’s not the only one. There are few people left in the world—many of them are thinking about how things might have been. They’re seeing ghosts of a life that was nearly reality. This new war that…
Island King
Some secrets, committed to the ground by careful hands, need to stay buried. Tien and Matt don’t care about that—they’re just fulfilling their obligations to the TV show that made them famous. They survived, vote after vote, as the game progressed. Now,…
Fiero’s Pizza
There’s something out there waiting for your family and it needs you to call. Your baby can sense it. In the middle of the night, when the curtains blow, you can sense it too. All it needs is an opening. Once it’s…
Beneath the Cut
In the near future, confessions and evidence won’t be required to convict a criminal. A suspect’s own memories will be Imaged to prove their guilt. Abel Dayan is in an impossible situation. A despicable child murderer has been captured and Abel has…
After We Live Forever
Desperate for a change, Holly has no idea how strange her life can become. When she is swept away to another world, she finds herself in a fight for her survival. Her only companion doesn’t speak and he could break her in…
Before We Die Alone
Since we’re all going to be dead in a week, I might as well tell you—this planet is doomed. Even if we survive the impact, or somehow manage to avoid it, humans only have a few generations left on Earth. Our habitat…
Super Apex
As a species, people have tamed the Earth. Individually, in the face of a superior predator, we’re all just as helpless as the day we were born. And a superior predator is out there. Humans may be the Apex predator, but there’s something even…