Something's shooting down shuttles when they try to land on the surface of Pluto. After an invisible force annihilates two shuttlecraft in rapid succession, the humans at Pluto Station find themselves...

To escape her abusive family, Joey needs her string quartet to succeed. But there’s not a lot of money in classical music, and a whole lot of competition.When a bride gets so drunk she forgets she hired...

Every year, thousands of expecting parents start prenatal testing to find out if it’s a boy or a girl…and instead learn the baby is going to die. Anencephaly. Trisomy 18. Potter’s sequence. They’re called...

29-year-old Lee has a Park Slope apartment with easy access to Manhattan, loves her job as an auto mechanic, and can see her guardian angel (a wisecracker with a fascination for the Rumours album.) That's...

"Honey? I think you have a twin."Amber Brickman used to dream of unearthing ancient civilizations with her soulmate. But now she's the Assistant Fire Marshal, sifting through burn sites while the walls...

Punished for a year due to a slight infraction, the Archangel Gabriel is living with a human family, in a human body, working as a servant until he can return to Heaven. He thought he’d be tending sheep...

A guardian angel whose charge went to Hell, Reflection is stuck. It’s been two years, but still he keeps thinking about William. Always William.He’s not sure he can ever be fruitful again. But someone...

"If I get to Heaven and find her there, I'd rather be in Hell."Six years ago, an ultrasound diagnosed baby Annie with an incurable birth defect. She'd be born, and then she'd die. Doctor Olivia Thackeray...

A rosary in one hand. A dagger in the other.Sister Magdalena never heard of the Catherinite nuns until the day she faced her own death sentence.Rome, 1562. It's the era of the Index of Banned Books and...

Everyone knows about guardian angels — and Nezeq knows he should never have been made one. He’s a demon, after all. So instead of protecting the human Joshua, Nezeq tries to kill him. And fails.That’s...

"You know how one year is seven dog years? Well five months dating Lee is the equivalent of three years dating a normal woman."Lee and Bucky are back, but you know it's never that easy. Six months later,...

Auto mechanic Lee Singer considers New York City her personal playground, with lots of big engines and complicated tools and today a car that got towed in because those "severe tire damage" signs mean...

A midwife has a chance to right a seventy-year-old wrong.Tessa delivers babies at night and raises five sons by day. When an angel appears after a birth and asks for help on a quest, her first response...

In this collection of shorts, enter the sometimes funny, sometimes serious world of angels. Meet an angel punished by having to sit on a rock for three years (it could have been worse, he says) and a...

When Gage Jordan's uncle dies inside a magic circle, and his cousin Jeff can't communicate, no one has the answers. Was Gage's uncle trying to protect Jeff, or was he working black magic? Some claim there's...