Anthologies

24 new short stories from the hottest names Fall in love with someone out of this world. If love transcends all boundaries then paranormal romance is its logical conclusion. From the biggest names around, here are 24 tales to take you to another time and place. Let Alyssa Day, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Cheyenne McCray, Jeaniene Frost, Ilona Andrews, Kelley Armstrong, Maria V. Snyder, Carrie Vaughn, Allyson James Marland and others show you powers beyond your wildest imaginings. Within these pages mythical beasts, magical creatures of all shapes and sizes, heart-stoppingly handsome ghosts, angels, and mortals with extra-sensitive sensory perception play out the themes of extraordinary desires.

Time travel romance is not the same thing as sci-fi romance, though some stories may be set in an imagined future; it is romantic fiction set in various different eras, usually from around the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A woman may fall asleep in Central Park in the present to wake up in the arms of a Scottish laird in the sixteenth century. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance contains 20 stories of adventure and love; settings include medieval Scotland, sixteenth-century England, the nineteenth-century 'Wild West'. Some stories are set in the present and a few in the future. Stories include an Elizabethan nobleman whisked into the present day, a troubled young woman who lands in the sixteenth century able to break a curse of lost love.Includes stories from: Gwyn Cready, Sandy Blair, Michelle Maddox, Jean Johnson, Cindy Miles and many more.

With a Foreword by Holly Lisle Adventures and Creativity can be found everywhere as the 35 short stories of this anthology show. Each author found a different angle for the unifying theme: The Adventure of Creation. Follow a girl to the Below-World to slay the Sharkshadow, or help a timid girl to overcome the destructive criticism of her art teacher. Witness a solitary drone on Mars or a naive homunculus struggle to become human. Sew with a mother who lost her daughter in a unicorn quilt, defeat bank robbing super-villains with an unlikely superhero, or join a great mage in the fire. In thirty-five imaginative stories, emerging authors present the diversity of their creativity. Witness the talent nurtured by writing teacher, Holly Lisle. For the 5th anniversary of her first big writing course, How to Think Sideways, this anthology features the best of her talented students in a great variety of genres. The authors represented in this anthology are: Russell Adams Ted Atchley E.L. Blackburn Faith Boughan Piia Bredenberg J.P. Brindley Zoe Cannon Connie Cockrell S.J. Driscoll Molly Felder Rabia Gale Katharina Gerlach Melinda Hagenson Jessi Hammond Jennifer Johnson A.E. Kalquist Kate Lansky Taven Moore Debbie Mumford Jimena Novaro L.M. Orbison Amy Padget Liz Schröder Vanna Smythe Laura Thurston Amanda Tompkins Thea vanDiepen Martha Verlander Tom Vetter Vanessa Wells Debbie Zubrick Michele Zugnoni

Solve a mermaid’s problem … Step off the edge of a roof … Dig up a grave at midnight … Take advice from a fortune cookie … Visit the last library … Meet a bridge troll … And more … In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person’s life. And like the trace of lighting in the sky, each is unique and interesting. These wildly different flash stories delight, astonish, scare, and inspire. Enjoy 64 delightfully eclectic tales. Like your flash fiction intriguing with a twist? Discover the diversity and check out “It Happened in a Flash”. These stories are included: Don’t Stop Believing – Joyce Sully A Fresh Start – Troy Pennie Nonsense – Katharina Gerlach Fist-bump – Tuff Gartin The Dare – Lexy Stanton Unicorn – Ruth Sard Queen of Swords – Moira K. Brennan Liar, Liar – Barbara Lund 0—The Fool – Raven O’Fiernan And Music Will Set You Free – Marya Miller The Wisteria Princess – Nika Cantabile Fair Folk – Hannetjie Joubert D-A-V-E – Ken Bristow Desperate Times – Rebecca W. Hansen Nothing New – Alex F. Fayle Art for the Cure – Connie Cockrell Meltdown at Markin Four – Elizabeth McCleary Touching the Edge – Ava Fairhall Cowboy Heroes – Sallie Olson Knighthood – Rachel Kovaciny The Book Thief – Angela Wooldridge Vengeance Never Undone – Dwayne Allemao Home – Storm Weaver Stronger – Oren Litwin The Trouble With Aunt Flo … – Nina Hobson Boxcar Revolution – Laura Wilson-Anderson The Touch – Chaitali Gawade The Last Library – Ky Moffet Corrected Vision – Devlyn Dunne Weather Report – Sylvie Granville Awakening – Annais Ryder Tacky – Timothy Couch The Long, Concrete Ditch – R.C. Blatter Write & Wrong – Charles Hoge Magic Trick – Amberlyn Pryor A Clean Home is a Happy Home – Dana Fischer Waystation – Samantha Hulatt Bad Day – Sarah Neuen Reaching Consensus – Sarah Stark The Hunted – J.L. Perry The Wyrm Turns – Peg Fisher Saveyour – Mike Lucas Hunted – Eileen Mueller The Rescue – Nicky Penttila The Magic Threads – Kirsten Bolda Girls Can’t be Knights – Ernesto I. Ramirez Stilettos – Charlotte Henley Babb The Proud Aide – Elaine S. Milner Bloody Lucky – James Roecourt Will the Real Captain Amazo Please Stand Up? – James Husum Frozen in Time – Kent Pollard Homebound – Heidi Ferguson The One that Got Away – Lauren M. Catherine A New Adventure – Janna Willard Shattered – Kami Bataya Twin Opportunities – Marie Dowd Aimee Meets the Bridge Troll – Julia Mozingo 11th Hour – Eliza K. Gillham The Return – Arlo Sharp Into the Light – Rachel Hobbs Spacebullies – Shana Bloom Confucius Say – Michael Eldridge Freebie – Holly Lisle Now What? – Tom Vetter