Multi-genre short stories, comics, poetry, artwork and novel excerpts, including a tale of William Wallace’s Scotland … and the undead … from Susanna Kearsley in ‘Soldier, Wake’; an adult twist on the gingerbread man in “Dough Boy Lovers and the Appetites of Desire” by Karlo Yeager; “Blackthorne & Rose: Agents of DIRE”, by KG McAbee, a steampunk romp through undead-infested London with Burton, Poe, Verne, Babbage, Lister and Faraday; The beautiful blend of poetry and story in “Victory Girl” by Ace Baker; time travel in the streets of Vancouver with “The Death of Me” by Keith Mabbs; alien encounters with a twist in “Things to Live For” by Richard E Gropp; under-the-skin horror in Susan Pieters' "Below the Knee"; a sequential art adaptation of slam poet Kimberleigh Roseblade’s “The Wolf” by JM Landels; the winners of the Inaugural Magpie Award for Poetry; and the next installment of Alliaigna's Song: Overture ... all under “The Fall of the Ego”, a haunting cover by the extraordinary Spanish artist Arantzazu Martinez.
This book is part of the Anthologies series and is book #1 in the series.