Curiosities #3: Summer 2018 - format ePub

Eight stories selected for summer adventure and travel, with a mechanical elephant, a hidden treasure horde, a unicorn wandering the Old West, a train ride that brings a whole new meaning to time zones,...

The second issue of a new steampunk oriented fiction anthology series. Step inside for 10 adventures with a soft-hearted scam artist, a young lion dancer, errant faeries, repurposed ghosts, a clockwork...

Curiosities is a twice annual publication of short speculative fiction in the retropunk subgenres.In this edition, you will find ten stories from the age of jazz and diesel, with hard boiled detectives,...

The first issue of Curiosities, a new steampunk oriented short fiction anthology magazine. Nine stories of adventurous trains, dangerous books, victorian bee girls, killer machines, Lovecraftian horrors,...

Curiosities is a thrice annual publication of speculative short fiction in the retropunk subgenres. We've saved our darkest stories for the darkest months of the year. In this volume you will meet clockwork...

Ten tales of horror and dark fantasy, each with the retro-vintage flair readers have come to appreciate from the Curiosities anthology series. A poet makes a passage with death. A solitary monster meets...

12 weird, bizarre, and genre-defying stories to entertain and delight. Go on a roadtrip to a Lovecraftian hell-pit. Witness aerialists leaping into the void. Sail uncharted waters with the deadliest of...

A princess floats in a bramble of hardware and preservatives. Geppetto is going to freeze to death if he does not find more wood to burn. Red's gram cutting quite the figure at the all night speakeasies.  And...

Curiosities returns with new steampunk stories of mysterious machines, curious contraptions, mannerly magicks, and tea. Ever so much tea.Illustrative collages by Martini Discovolante.The stories:Dorothea...

Gunner didn't do relationships. As the enforcer of the Iron Sentinels, his world was brutal, dangerous, and full of enemies. But when Dawn stumbled into his life, all fire and attitude, she flipped his...

1943: A nation at war, and a city brimming with dreams.Restless and yearning, Tilda breaks free from New York, trading skyscrapers for sun-drenched highways. A chance encounter in a dusty Texas diner...

In the chilly Arctic, Pablo the Penguin discovers a storybook about pumpkins and dreams of growing a pumpkin patch in his icy home, despite the cold and challenges. With enthusiasm and hope, he rallies...

In Finn the Fox Finds Friendship, a shy and gentle fox named Finn wanders the forest, longing for connection despite the quiet beauty and wonder that surrounds him. Though clever, kind, and deeply attuned...

In "The Invisible Currency," a thrilling Jason Noble adventure by Paul Van den Brande, readers are plunged into a high-stakes cyber mystery. Jason Noble, a financial investigator still grappling with...

ANGUISHEDA Supernatural Horror Novel by Rosalie JohnstonJess and her friends set out to film a documentary about the Ghostfacers— an infamous paranormal YouTube group that vanished without a trace. Their...

Life on the road with her new pack is proving a challenge for Akira because tensions run high when everyone is cold, tired, and sleeping rough. A steamy dream sparks unfamiliar feelings and she discovers...

Tears of the Aeon: The Gothic WarA Historical Fantasy Epic of War, Faith, and Forgotten GodsAs the Roman Empire crumbles at the edge of its dominion, a darker tide rises beyond the Danube. War drums echo...

Short story master David H. Hendrickson spins five spell-binding tales of mystery and suspense, including the novelette "Chimichangas and a Couple of Glocks." Filled with heart, conflict, and empathy,...

How can she give her heart to the man she loves when she belongs to someone else?Set in Ancient Egypt, The Priestess is a work of history and fiction woven into a spicy romance. It has elements of fantasy,...

In a city where memory is currency and emotion is hazardous material, Nova stands on the edge of their final fracture. The virus has taken root. Sel is gone—but not gone. Echoes crawl through the grid,...

Anya's life in a remote Himalayan village is a tapestry woven with the threads of an unusual and often challenging tradition: polyandry. Bound to five husbands, the stoic elder brother Tenzin, the controlling...

We finally slipped out of Helios' grasp. We've survived brain-bending space battles, bloodthirsty pirates, delusional scientists, and dreamlike encounters with advanced alien species. We need a place...

A Hunger Without Teethby Sathyam Daniel"You left the door open."Mira is an artist on the edge of unraveling. Shadows cling to her reflection, her canvases whisper secrets she doesn't remember painting,...

Far from home, a stranded time traveler struggles to raise a young girl with mysterious powers. Together, they find unexpected help from a group of misfit heroes, and along the way, they discover what...

Sixteen-year-old Annie Peace is the ideal eldest daughter. She takes on the most responsibility on her family's farm, cares for her siblings, and keeps her emotions in check. At least she did, until a...

THE MODERN MOGUL follows Thulokuhle Ka Wella, a gifted teen agent from Hammarsdale, as he uncovers dark truths behind his father's death and infiltrates a global crime syndicate. Torn between duty and...

In the shadowed alleys of Cairo, a disgraced alchemist holds the city's fate in his hands.Once a celebrated master of alchemic arts, Youssef El-Rawi returns to a steam-powered Cairo now dominated by the...

Minnie springs into action when she sees her ex's engagement announcement. Regret has filled Minnie for years, but she was the one to break up with her ex-boyfriend Lawrence, so she never went after him....

Step into the hush between heartbeats and envision a different future. "Chasing Echoes: Velvet Shadows" is a hauntingly intimate collection of short stories that dwell in the soft spaces between love...

Nashville Homicide Detective Abbey Rhodes is caught between a high-profile murder and multiple disappearances in a homeless camp. When the Mayor discovers the victim is the stepson of Jonathan Lee Thomas,...

Alice didn't mean to land in a pool of blood, but when a murderous talking Rabbit frames her for a crime she didn't commit, she has no choice but to fight her way out—if the wolves don't tear her apart...

The culmination of Winston's trilogy, "A New Dawn," brought a poignant conclusion to the saga, where the consequences of past actions converge with the promise of redemption. Here, the themes of crime,...

Kenko dies a lot. Fortunately, in the Tethersphere, that's not as final as it sounds.Tethered to a great shrine, villagers return from death with their memories intact, but anything gained after the last...

He kills in silence. She speaks to the part of him he thought was dead.Damian Hale was never meant to feel.Raised in the shadows of violence, trained to obey without question, and shaped by the hands...

Eugene Markham has always longed to visit Blue Mountain, because he is obsessed with the Appalachian mountains since he was a child. There are a great deal of stories about creatures that roam the area,...

"Sometimes, the love you let go… is the one that returns stronger than ever."Reena Imran, an ambitious woman still scarred by her first heartbreak, never expected to see Reez Aidan again—the man who once...

A Haunting Reflection of the MindA slow-burn psychological horror novellaWhat happens when the voice in your head finds a face?Elias Mercer is a washed-up writer clinging to the last threads of his career—and...

Quest.Level.Repeat. Marvin the mage explores a fantasy gaming world, seeking out new adventures.  His goal is simple: quest through content and grind out XP. If he happens to find some good loot along...

Transmigrated into the cultivation world, Zhou Luo failed to join a sect and was tricked into becoming a live-in son-in-law for a cultivation family.Fortunately, after being reduced to a breeding tool,...