New magic. Check. New life. Check. New Friends? Maybe. But more than anything else, Sam needs new family.Sam's dyslexia prevents her from being trained as a witch. So she does manual labor as a carpenter...

The Old One will not rest until he destroys the Greater Oregon Fairy Kingdom. Warrior, servant, and royal alike face death. Old world dwarves threaten as well, plotting a genocidal invasion to steal all...

How do you fight an opponent you can't touch? Namely, the shadows: An alien race, determined to suck the life out of everything on Earth before escaping to another planet. They have no form, no body to...

Annabella Lee grew up in a small village, and now, Mistress had brought her to the wild city of San Franscisco for the first time. But something is wrong. Something in the air. Hungry. And angry. Can...

Judit had thought her choices were lousy before. Now, she has forbidden aliens in control of the engines, a ship designed to break down regularly, and the Cartel hunting them through every system in known...

Ginger has reason to rage. Reason to get revenge as well. Then COVID-19 hits. And the timing seems perfect. Even if she has come down with the stupid plague herself. Nothing is going to stop her this...

Despite the troubles of the previous year, Lydia still enjoys owning her own B&B and restaurant in the tourist town of Lake Hope, in Central Washington. Especially building those stronger relationships...

"Alvin GoodfellowPI to the starsThe best you'll findOn the Moon, Venus, or Mars..." Or at least that is how the jingle goes for the ads Alvin constantly runs on the radio. In actuality, Alvin's Private...

Jason stands by his friend Andy, through thick and thin.  Follows him out into the storm after the streets of their town have flooded. Particularly when Andy decides to get himself some revenge, and arms...

As a forensic accountant, Heather spends her life crawling through complicated financial records, finding errors that most corporate people can't even see. Then again, she marches to her own drum. The...

Jacob has done it all. Been so many people he loses track of who he used to be. Now, he works as a quiet craftsman, building custom tiny homes. Until thieves steal the latest project he just finished. Jacob...

Book clubs are not just for talking about books. But for getting together with friends. Gossiping. Imbibing. Until one of the women insists that there should no longer be alcohol at the book club. How...

Nightmares of drowning crowd Merilee's sleep. Deep, dark, endless water. They must mean something. She is a witch, after all. When three men break into her house, Merilee casts a transformation spell...

Angela still can't believe that she gets a second chance with Frankie. That maybe, perhaps, they've both grown up enough, and gotten over themselves enough, to finally have a chance for happiness. But...

Lizzie's cute magic shop—Abracadabra—mostly sells to tourists and those who don't have magic. Or a clue. Unlike Lizzie, who has strong divination skills. Which are ringing hard right now, as someone approaches...

Tanelith lives her greatest dream: to rise up to one of the cities of the gods, to walk the streets of her ancestors, to see her people rightfully proud and living in beauty. But the beautiful murals...

A vision comes to AJ just before she leaves her old life, showing her an unknown dead man. Great. On top of breaking up with her ex, leaving her job, starting perimenopause, and going to spend the summer...

It's the week before Valentine's Day, so a young brownie's thoughts turn to love. And shoes. Of course.Everyone knows that brownies make the best shoes. It's their special magical talent.But what happens...

Smoke still wreathes the air above the Wind People's capital. Daily, the Wind People battle the Bone People.And lose territory with every skirmish.Other forces converge in the lands of the Bone People,...

Ka Lem can take the form of any animal he knows. He chooses the form of a bear for first his soul form, and plans on taking the form of an elk afterward.But the elk have disappeared, from the land and...

Halley Brown works as a private investigator in Seattle. She likes working for herself, in part, because she gets to pick and choose her clients. Halley is about to turn down Amber Lee's plea for help...

I met a spy once.She wasn't what you'd expect. Blonde, buxom, and brilliant. Anything more, well, you'll have to read the story to find out what she was after. And how I got drawn in. Yet another short...

"Alvin GoodfellowPI to the starsThe best you'll findOn the Moon, Venus, or Mars..." Or at least that is how the jingle goes for the ads Alvin constantly runs on the radio. Alvin faces his most convoluted...

It's been fifteen months since the Cataclysm, when that gang of idiots broke the bonds between the planes and magic flooded the world. I've read the reports. Saw snatches of the documentary. They thought...

Patrice is happy, successful, and cursed. Every month during the full moon she reverts to her awkward teen-aged self, complete with braces and acne. This year, at her 25 year high school reunion, she's...

As a minor goddess of sewing machines, Vivianne's "temple", such as it is, exists in one of those between places, not in a fixed location or time. As a result, she never has visitors. Instead, she goes...

Boundary Shock Quarterly (BSQ) has been publishing some astounding Science Fiction, four times a year, for five years now. This collection brings together all of the stories written by Leah R Cutter,...

Life sucks for Fu Ran right now. Her father, dead of cancer, her brother, killed in a car accident. Her mother, sick. Without the Communist Party affiliations from her father's friends, she cannot pursue...

The Greater Oregon Fairy Kingdom still hides beneath the Pacific Ocean cliffs. Between their own lost dreams, battles with the dwarves, and the encroaching humans, the kingdom continues to diminish. Only...

Stacy loves her grandmother, who she always calls Nana. Even if it means she has to watch her language, which tends to be more...spicy, than Nana approves of. Hence, Nana's soap, always ready to show...