Terror and madness wait to strike...Eager to start fresh, Leigh accepts a teaching job in the remote northern community of Spruce Bay. The fading mining community is rife with abandoned homes that breed...

Calliope is an artist who works for her explorer father recording what he brings back from his journeys in her sketchbooks. Then she has a chance to go along on a trip to capture a sea serpent.Life at...

A white moose, seen as a spirit animal by the Cree is shot. The hunters are murdered, then the hunting lodges burned to the ground. A group calling themselves the White Moose Clan has declared war on...

Five years after King Harald returns to the throne, everything is not well in his kingdom. Marriette's efforts to bring reform to the relationship between noble and commoner is at an impass. Not everyone...

 Blue has lived on the street for years, keeping his head down. Though excitement is dangerous, he takes on the search for a friend to alleviate boredom. When he finds his friend's corpse, it brings back...

No matter how hard the road, never give up.  A northern forest in winter and a forgotten people. A jungle city with ambitious newcomers ruling, The broad steppes and a nomadic nation. World shaking choices...

The world is a big place, and it is getting bigger.After the fall of the Empire, the younger generation take up the call to bring peace and justice. From remote fishing villages, from the desert, to a...

With only a few weeks before Molly returns home, an apartment fire leaves Blue living in a  motel. It isn't the worst place he's lived. With him are a friendly dog and her unfriendly owner, and a woman...

The world is full of magic, the magic is full of mischief.Leedles has always been different, gold where the others were brown. She can't control her magic and it gets her exiled from her peaceful village....

Pranthi is a photographer shooting the annual Zombie walk in her city, but she’s not above photographing the result of one of the walkers becoming all too like a real zombie. 

Blue is asked to open a Café in downtown Kamloops to offer services to street people and others. Not everyone is happy with the idea. It becomes a issue for the municipal election, with one candidate...

She's a shieldmaiden with a thousand soldiers at her command. So why is her job so difficult?Robin heads into the Ancan Empire with only a vague notion of where she is supposed to go, and even less about...

Frederick is a builder, the most despised group in Lexburgh. Why then, is he forced to attend a prestigious school for people who hate him? His revenge for the bullying he experiences is to survive.When...

When Calliope board the Kestrel as first mate after the crown prince asked her to build him an airship, she expected to learn command - as he'd insisted - but dangers at sea, then at home shattered her...

After a murder by a homeless man, the most vulnerable people in the city become targets. Molly is recruited by the police to help with street culture.Just how far will she get pulled into the case as...

Princess Annuetta is bored. Bored with her toys, bored with her kingdom. Nothing ever happens, except for her interrupting her father’s work with her complaints. She wants a monkey, but the servant girl,...

Not all devils come from Hell.Marriette wants to escape her father, accepting an arranged marriage to a cripple, never expecting to find someone she could love.Zeb is trapped in a weak human body forced...

When age rules the country, it's hard being young.Trey runs away from the youth reserve sure he's no more than spare parts for a father he barely remembers. The Council of Elders has its own questions...

Neil and Boss, his pug dog, are content with their routine, until one day Boss doesn't return from chasing a squirrel. Has he been dognapped by researchers? Neil sets out to find his dog, leaving the...

What would happen if girls from around the world found mythical objects? How would it change them? How would it change the world?Eleven stories, eleven fierce females, eleven countries connect Apollo's...

Mines are dangerous, never more so than when greed outweighs everything else.When a series of events leads to the death of Georgia's fiance, she packs up and heads south. Behind her Jim and Leigh struggle...

Calliope and her engineers have built an airship different from anything else imagined. The Khirshan Empire doesn't plan to fall behind, their plot will change Calliope's life forever. They will learn...

Saving your people shouldn't mean them losing themselves.Roger, Third Prince of Congu, has spent more than a year trying to bring what he learned in Anglia to his people. When he considers returning to...

Calliope has to navigate a new country, a relationship, and new challenges, not the least is the Engine Smith who isn't happy about the competition. Yet as the Empire prepares to invade, time is running...

Some heroes are called, some are made. Robin has always been the smallest, but she'd determined to be a knight. When Robin helps with the ritual to call a Hero she may have the chance to fulfill her dream,...

A shadow in the deep forest, a shape in a blizzard.Bigfoot stories abound. You can hear tales of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti and their relatives from the north to the pacific north-west, to the mountains...

Marriette is set on the throne as Regent with no preparation. There are all too many people willing to take advantage of her inexperience. When the King and Queen vanish on their pilgrimage the power...

Princess Alexandra doesn't get an enchantment when she is born, or at her christening. Her parents are in a panic about how she will find a husband, but Alexandra has other ideas.

Marylin works through her formative years in counselling as she attends University to become a social worker. When her father has a heart attack, all Marilyn's tuiition and savings disappear. A singing...

A collection of award-winning speculative short fiction! QuaranCon's top entries from both the 2020 and 2021 short fiction contests, these six stories all deal with themes of isolation and innovation,...