Why take the highway?Sure, it's the safe route, the easy route.But the emptiness calls me.I want to walk and walk and walkuntil I can no longer see the highway.Until I can no longer see any path of any...

As a Rogue, the Saeire Insu warship Failure is free to chart course wherever its crew pleases. Their mission, as it stands for all Rogues, is to do as much damage as possible to the Imperial Navy in order...

Love and hate, loss and betrayal, inspiration and perspiration. God and nature. Poetry that isn't saturated or diluted or made safe for general consumption. Read and be enlightened, enraged, enraptured,...

Melody Singleton is a bright 13-year-old girl who loves math, classical music, her mom, her best friend Yaeko, and her dog. To her classmates that makes her a nerd, and they cruelly treat her as such....

Do you remember your first love? Do you remember how it made you feel, how it changed everything for you?In this bitingly personal essay, Shawn Michel de Montaigne, author of the beloved epic fantasy...

She got up and found a book of matches, came back and sat. She examined the wick, which was partially buried in the wax, and then pried it free with her thumb. She thought of the handsome dark man: the...

He's a thirty-fifth-century hippie named Random Chance. He lives in a spacegoing RV that looks like a sea turtle. He loves ancient rock n' roll music.He christened his ship The Pompatus of Love. The deep...

What did you spend your life doing?Did you answer the unique and primal acheeach and every one of us has?Or did you (almost certainly) ignore it?Life is: school, marriage, kids, house, job, retirement,...

Life is money and promotions.It's stabbing others in the back and gossiping around the water cooler.It's toilet paper commercials featuring cutesy bears,and sports cars mid-life-crisis suburbans can't...

The airplane Professor Ray Wilms was in just exploded. Somehow he survived the fireball and tons of burning metal as it blew away into the night air over San Diego, California. He has no idea how he's...

What came first, the shadow or the leafit falls upon,the sunlight or the pain?Painted yellow, what calls, and what echoes, and what criesthrough the valley;And what strains the surface of thingswhen joy...

Obituaries and funerals are always the same. It does not matter if the deceased was a great man or a monster; those eulogizing him will proclaim the same thing: that he was an awesome guy, a loving father,...

Otoro Queril is feared by his fellow Tracluse. As an executioner for Necrolius Anaxagorius' Imperium, it's Otoro's job to kill those poor souls brought to his chopping block, and to do it as efficiently...

An entire world falls to war.A young man watches helplessly as his sister is eaten by a giant demon right before his eyes. He narrowly escapes death himself; buoyed by the current of a corpse-filled canal,...

Shortly after my mother died of a terrible illness, I began having ... visions. They weren't wispy, flighty dreams or random, short-lived nightmares. No, these phantasms were much fuller, much more tactile...

The search for one's calling takes great patience and courage. Choosing that calling, once it becomes apparent, takes even more.Pursuing a calling is a deadly enterprise, for it will inevitably claim...

Anurag de Bouchard is on a mission. He's waited half his lifetime for this moment. At last he can light the beacon that will spread the news across the whole of Aquanus:The Apprentice has come.All across...

PARTS FIVE AND SIX Melody Singleton is a bright 13-year-old girl who loves math, classical music, her mom, her best friend Yaeko, and her dog. To her classmates that makes her a nerd, and they cruelly...

When he was a mortal, Ray Wilms had no time or patience for children. Despite being an educator, he couldn't stand them.As an angel of death, his very first assignment back to Earth is to save a sixteen-year-old...

Melody Singleton is a bright 13-year-old girl who loves math, classical music, her mom, her best friend Yaeko, and her dog. To her classmates that makes her a nerd, and they cruelly treat her as such....

The Imaginariverse, the source of all imagination in the Multiverse, has been taken over by an evil queen named Walmar Seburbia. Her plan? To destroy six potential heroes in two different universes who...

Queen Walmar Seburbia is determined to kill six heroes she has foreseen can destroy her. Three are in one universe; three are in another. Her weapon is a powerful Vortex Cannon, and her ammunition is...