Preorder: Breathing in Reverse July 17, 2023 324 Breathing in Reverse is now available for preorder! Reserve your copy today! A chance encounter with a celebrity, an impromptu video, and a shiny new espresso machine all add up to a juicy tale for Rachael Allen to share with friends. But when her best friend posts the video online without her knowledge, Rachael begins
Cover Reveal: Ragtown July 14, 2023 549 Coming September 2023 Helen Carter lives in the back seat of her father’s Model T in the harsh Nevada desert, surrounded by thousands of desperate souls trying to endure the hardships of the Great Depression. When her father dies while working on the Hoover Dam diversion tunnels, she finds herself alone. In this unforgiving landscape
Short Story: How to Win the Internet July 12, 2023 309 by Shawne Steiger Photo by Lucio Abatemarco Take a selfie at your sister’s wedding. Pose in your pale green bridesmaid dress, shoes long ago dumped under the table. Snap. In the photo your cheeks are alcohol flushed and your teeth are huge, the camera a little too close. But look who has his arm around
Short Story: Drawing a Bead July 10, 2023 534 by Marie Flanigan T settled on a roof across from the arcade. He unzipped his gear bag and began assembling his rifle. In less than a minute, the gun was mounted on a tripod and T lay prone behind it, sighting two pigeons wandering across the covered walkway. To the naked eye, the birds were
New Release: A Life in Bloom July 4, 2023 474 Special Release Day Kindle Price: $2.99 Grab your copy today! High school teacher Kristin Caine has a black belt in settling for less and a dying mother who doesn’t mince words when it comes to voicing how disappointed this makes her. But when Kristin’s status quo is rocked by an unexpected pregnancy and the consequent
Preorder: Get a Room July 3, 2023 364 Get a Room is now available for preorder! Reserve your copy today! Brian Hawkins has had the worst year. He watched his girlfriend marry another man, lost his job and his apartment, and after a summer under his parents’ roof, has taken refuge with his younger sister. A quiet few months in Philadelphia are just
Short Story: Spilt Milk June 30, 2023 350 by Densie Webb She couldn’t point to a day marked in red on the calendar when everything had fallen apart. It had been a methodical, exquisitely painful dissection. In the beginning, she was hopelessly—no—insanely in love with him. There he was, serving up his seductive behavior like a mouthwatering, 7-course meal. And she lacked the
Short Story: Resurrecting the Torn Edge June 28, 2023 230 by Nicholas Conley Recreating dead people is a complex process. The little details often get skewed. Mason’s software could usually whip up living dead folks with the skill and flair of an experienced barista, but not this time. It was 2 AM. Mason had chugged too many energy drinks, rendering him so wired that he felt
Cover Reveal: Louise and Vincent June 27, 2023 444 Coming August 2023 French innkeeper Louise Ravoux is struggling to keep her inn afloat while raising her two daughters and avoiding her abusive husband. One afternoon, a scruffy redheaded painter walks in, wanting to rent a room. Vincent van Gogh reminds her of her first love, and he has the most arresting eyes of anyone
Short Story: Exiled June 26, 2023 246 “Exiled” (A Bonus Story from Versions of Her) by Andrea Lochen Melanie was thirteen and had a brand-new blue-plaid bikini—the top was padded, her sister, Kelsey, liked to point out. When Melanie wasn’t listening to her Discman and paging through Seventeen magazine, she was writing letters to her best friend back home, lamenting her banishment to their summer