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Book trailer for Beauty & Dynamite

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Credit goes to Fontaine, for writing such a beautiful song, and to Stephanie Rinehart for editing it together.
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Apex Digest Online issue 2 now available

This one is stacked.
We have a story from Nick Mamatas titled “Summon, Bind, Banish.” Alethea Kontis contributes the latest in her popular Beauty & Dynamite essay series. Lavie Tidhar continues his pursuit of the Titanic Omar. Adrienne Jones describes why she fears puppets. There’s a great interview with F. Paul Wilson. Justin Stewart provides more [...]

BEAUTY & DYNAMITE: Almost Back

We’re delighted to bring you the latest of Alethea’s popular quarterly Apex Digest column via the magic of digital bits.

Short Fiction: Happy Thoughts

by Alethea Kontis

Sorscha had never known her father’s true motivation behind poisoning his children. Passion for Rasputin, Napoleon and Hitler? Paranoia-driven sense of preservation or completely sadistic experiment? Whatever his reasons, her immunity to arsenic always made for an interesting topic of conversation at dinner parties.

Short Fiction: Foiled

by Alethea Kontis
July 2007

The day she had asked her father what the words meant, he had slapped her. She had overheard the Aunts, she admitted. He went very still after that, and simply told her to never say them again. The words were a curse: May each day you live after this be worse than the one before.