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The Lost Level by Brian Keene

NOVEL EXCERPT: The Lost Level by Brian Keene

My name is Aaron Pace, and I’m writing this by hand in a spiral-bound, college-ruled notebook that I found in a student’s backpack inside of an abandoned school bus. All...

NOVEL EXCERPT: The Lost Level by Brian Keene

My name is Aaron Pace, and I’m writing this by hand in a spiral-bound, college-ruled notebook that I found in a student’s backpack inside of an abandoned school bus. All...

FREE SHORT FICTION: A Hollow Play by Amal El-Mohtar

FREE SHORT FICTION: A Hollow Play by Amal El-Mohtar

Emily stood in the doorway to the Rio Cafe and looked around, half–convinced she had the wrong place. The word “cabaret” had conjured up visions of illicit underground doings populated...

FREE SHORT FICTION: A Hollow Play by Amal El-Mohtar

Emily stood in the doorway to the Rio Cafe and looked around, half–convinced she had the wrong place. The word “cabaret” had conjured up visions of illicit underground doings populated...

FREE SHORT FICTION: Such & Such Said to So & So by Maria Dahvana Headley

FREE SHORT FICTION: Such & Such Said to So & So by Maria Dahvana Headley

The cocktails there had always been dangerous, but now they were poison. We got the call in at the precinct, and none of us were surprised. We all knew the...

FREE SHORT FICTION: Such & Such Said to So & So by Maria Dahvana Headley

The cocktails there had always been dangerous, but now they were poison. We got the call in at the precinct, and none of us were surprised. We all knew the...

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FREE SHORT FICTION: Paying It Forward by Michael A. Burstein

Paying It Forward A Hugo Award-Nominated Short Story by Michael A. Burstein I'm dying. No one knows it yet. Having never married, I have no family to mourn my passing....

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FREE SHORT FICTION: Paying It Forward by Michael A. Burstein

Paying It Forward A Hugo Award-Nominated Short Story by Michael A. Burstein I'm dying. No one knows it yet. Having never married, I have no family to mourn my passing....

FREE SHORT FICTION: Kaddish for the Last Survivor by Michael A. Burstein

FREE SHORT FICTION: Kaddish for the Last Survivor by Michael A. Burstein

The man smiled. “I asked, given the fact that your grandfather, who lived a long and healthy life, is now on his deathbed, why does your family feel the need...

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FREE SHORT FICTION: Kaddish for the Last Survivor by Michael A. Burstein

The man smiled. “I asked, given the fact that your grandfather, who lived a long and healthy life, is now on his deathbed, why does your family feel the need...

FREE SHORT FICTION: I Remember the Future by Michael A. Burstein

FREE SHORT FICTION: I Remember the Future by Michael A. Burstein

The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach; we could almost grasp the stars if we...

FREE SHORT FICTION: I Remember the Future by Michael A. Burstein

The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach; we could almost grasp the stars if we...