FREE first in series novel that neatly fits in the sci fi / fantasy / horror/ mystery/ suspense /alternate history genre. A small town doctor in the Shawnee Nation is severely injured and briefly dies in an...
The issue opens with "Citadel Ninety-Nine" by Michael Canfield, in which a bloodthirsty army tears its way across a strange, strange world. Also in this issue… John Greenwood plots the next point in Newton...
[620 words] She wove lies of leaves and fruit as she crawled about the tree; it had rotted and split, but her webbing held it whole. She wove eight-faceted apples that glistened like negative prisms, sucking...
[2300 words] To put it simply, Jerome was fat. His only erogenous zone was his mouth. But putting it simply didn't do justice to the rolls of flesh he carted around daily, the sheen of sweat that trickled from...
The Ghosts of Earth is the first book of the Truthfarer series, which describes the beginnings of a universe - the origins of space and time, and of consciousness itself. These cataclysmic events set in train...
A young dormouse awakens from a deep sleep and utters a mysterious prophecy. In the centre of The Great Woods, an ancient tree receives some strange visitors. Rumours abound. Change is in the air. This is the...
“What do you need?” I asked him. “Words,” the man answered. “Just words. How silly is that? But it’s the only thing I need.” “Maybe I can help you,” I said. “I have plenty of words. And I...
(A story about clones, dinosaurs and the Concept of Benjamin Franklin). Jacob White works for the Salmon Corporation. It's an easy job, provided you do what you're told and don't ask too many questions. Jacob...
It' not magic. It's just life. A dark fairytale about a village's strangest daughter, the man in the woods, and a dying boy. Fairies only die if they stop dancing, and they can't dance if they can't fly.
In a slightly alternate world the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy. Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can enter...
Here is TQF29, seven stories high. Douglas Thompson takes the lead, with the eerie and poetic "Madame Mortadore & the Clouds". "Foundling" by Nick Sansone follows a painter through a troubled life foretold....
Trick’s in trouble. His wife has been murdered, his own family is hunting him down, and he teeters on the edge of suicide. When his cousin forces him to help a DarkElf, he welcomes the danger she brings. But...
TQF28 starts in the best possible way with "Quadrant Five" – a bunch of people on a spaceship going who knows where. That's followed by the next riveting instalment of Newton Braddell and a short-short from...
Brian Sihdlham’s infant son is sick and no one in his village can help, so he starts on a trek to seek out the help of the most powerful sound shaper he knows of: The Great Sage. Little did Brian know that...
Mary was an advanced, closed ecosystem, equipped with seven bio-reactors for growing several kinds of micro-algae, three fungi growing dark chambers, and a 3D printer. The urine and faeces of Ascende and his...
Matthew Huntington’s problems seem to keep growing. Not only is he seeing things in garbage cans but his mentor doesn’t think he’s working up to his full potential, his best friend can’t offer any solace...