Anthologies

BEWARE! Between these pages, thirteen tales about augmented reality lie in wait to steal away your senses. Go on the hunt for poachers in a dangerous mist. Use your powers of reality-shaping to steal eternal life. Create a piece of art that embodies the soul of its muse. Find love in the data-memories of a ghost. Attend to your spiritual mind while your mortal body is in danger. Follow alien ley lines on another planet searching for the truth. Remember, when you step inside these pages, use all your senses, because you never know what lurks beneath...

Starts with a bang. Ends with a bang. And a lot of bang in between. Pulse Pounders. Ranging from straight thriller to science fiction, fantasy to pulp adventure, these stories make your heart race. Share the excitement as a woman held hostage in a chair has only a few minutes to escape, and a man trapped in a time loop revisits a crisis point in the past. Including an original never-before-published Frank Herbert story, these page-turners show why Adventures Fantastic says Fiction River “is one of the best and most exciting publications in the field today.” “… fans of the unconventional will be well satisfied.” —Publishers Weekly on Fiction River: Pulse Pounders Table of Contents “The Chair” by JC Andrijeski “Change of Mind” by Kevin J. Anderson & Peter J. Wacks “A Man of His Times” by Patrick O’Sullivan “Tower One” by Thomas K. Carpenter “Big and Shady” by David Farland “Daisy Wong: The Hell of the Unprepared Sinners” by Jamie McNabb “The Yellow Coat” by Frank Herbert “Fraternization” by Ron Collins “Frostburnt” by Brigid Collins “The Scent of Amber and Vanilla” by Dayle A. Dermatis “The Mer” by Phaedra Weldon “Sole Survivor” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Three Strikes” by Chuck Heintzelman

This anthology collects all 24 original stories from the third year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Lovecraftian food bloggers, doors that bring back the dead, fantastical roommates apartment hunting in Brooklyn, oversea octopus explorers, sisterly love and rivalry in space, living breathing sweaters. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from contemporary authors both new and established. The stories in this anthology are: “Regarding the Robot Raccoons Attached to the Hull of My Ship” by Rachael K. Jones and Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali “The Existentialist Men” by Gwendolyn Clare “The Things You Should Have Been” by Andrea G. Stewart “O Stone, Be Not So” by José Pablo Iriarte “For Now, Sideways” by A. Merc Rustad “The Entropy of a Small Town” by Thomas K. Carpenter “Six Hundred Universe of Jenny Zars” by Wendy Nikel “What Monsters Prowl Above the Waves” by Jo Miles “When One Door Shuts” by Aimee Ogden “Lightning Dance” by Tamlyn Dreaver “The Long Pilgrimage of Sister Judith” by Paul Starkey “The Shadow Over His Mouth” by Aidan Doyle “Shoots and Ladders” by Charles Payseur “The Leviathans Have Fled the Sea” by Jon Lasser “Strung” by Xinyi Wang “Soft Clay” by Seth Chambers “9 Things the Mainstream Media Got Wrong About the Ansaj Incident” by Willem Myra “The Aunties Return the Ocean” by Chris Kuriata “Monster of the Soup Cans” by Elizabeth Barron “Brooklyn Fantasia” by Marcy Arlin “Artful Intelligence” by G.H. Finn “Typical Heroes” by Theo Kogod “Three Days of Unnamed Silence” by Daniel Ausema "Hakim Vs. the Sweater Curse" by Rachael K. Jones

Have you ever wanted to go to magic school? To cast spells and brew potions and fly on broomsticks and—perhaps—battle threats both common and supernatural? Come with us into worlds of magic, where students become magicians and teachers do everything in their power to ensure the kids survive long enough to graduate. Welcome to ... Fantastic Schools. Meet a student who discovers the hard way what happens when he is transformed into a monster, another who mixes magic and music to remarkable effect, a student who wants to trigger a magical industrial revolution, an assassin posing as a tutor with a mission he cannot deny, two students who have to learn to work together – or else – and a student who starts her school newspaper and discovers a conspiracy that strikes at the heart of a proud institution … … And many more. Stories by: Christopher G. Nuttall, N. R. Lapoint, Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett, Roger Strahan, Thomas K. Carpenter, Erin N.H. Furby, James Pyles, J.F. Posthumus, Declan Finn, Des M. Astor, Cathy Smith, Shana M. Buck, Andrew Young, E.F. Buckles, C. E. Perez