A ghost story, inspired by true events. On her tenth birthday, Gwen sees what she believes is a lost boy in the forest below an old Victorian house - a child desperate for help. When the search comes up empty, and no child was ever reported missing, her parents and the authorities think it is just her imagination. Four years later, in the summer of 1982, she embarks upon a quest to find the answer to her only question: did she see a ghost? Gwen...

Sometimes being together feels electrifying. Sometimes it actually is. Seventeen-year-old Kali has spent an idyllic few months on Oahu, becoming ever closer to Zane as they enjoy the tropical sun on the beaches of the world-famous North Shore. But as their summer vacations draw to a close, Kali can't help but feel a twinge of concern. Nothing between the two teenagers has ever been simple, but the deeper in love she falls, the more intense her connection...

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning and bestselling authors A middle-aged Black woman exacts revenge on the aggressively average men she meets on dating sites. A girl buries pieces of herself in a hole beneath an apple tree, hoping to escape her mother's life of struggle and servitude. A group of teenage girls compete for the title...

What Is The Penumbra? The Penumbra is: The very edge of the border between light and shadow.A series of connected, interrelated fictions spanning the supernatural, horror, and science fiction genres, along with their cousins. An homage to anthologies of speculative fiction in TV, comic book, and prose form. In this volume:A musician and storyteller in 14th century Mali discovers a mysterious song that shows him other times and places and is sent on...

Thirteen Founders. Thirteen Roots. Three girls must find them all. After passing the tests the Founders put before them, and making it back out of the sunflower fairy-ring alive, Meghan, Mira, and Maya now face an even more daunting task… gathering the rest of the Roots. Who would believe their story? Besides, they're all three grounded and that puts some heavy constraints on the time they have to find and convince them all to help save the town....

The moon is struck by an unseen object. Radio frequencies are filling with noise. As Earth continues on an uncertain course, former priest Jody Conque embarks on a journey across the country to his wife and daughter. His path is marked by increasingly sinister and surreal events that reveal Jody's own unique powers, and soon he finds himself at the center of an invisible war with an unknowable enemy far more dangerous than the unraveling universe....

StoryHack Action adventure is a fiction magazine in the style of the great pulps of years past. It includes stories from a wide variety of genres.In this issue, you'll find:"New Rules for Rocket Nauts" by Michael DeCarolis. A recently dismissed recruit watches in horror as an alien race betrays and massacres his former classmates. Now he may be the only person capable of stopping the first wave of an interstellar war."The Price of Hunger" by Kevyn...

A botched execution. A reverend on the run. Can she solve the mystery before she's caught in the crosshairs?Reverend Cici Gurule went to the sacred Chaco Canyon in search of a sign. She's been offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in a megachurch, but taking the position would mean abandoning her Southwestern home and the man she's grown to love as much more than a friend. She's so caught up in her thoughts that she doesn't realize when she stumbles...

Excerpt: "This collection of ghost stories owes its publication to an interest that I have long felt in the supernatural and in works of the imagination. As a child, I was deeply concerned with tales of spooks, haunted houses, wraiths and specters and stories of weird experiences, clanking chains, ghostly sights, and gruesome sounds always held me spellbound and breathless Experiences in editorial offices taught me that I was not alone in liking stories...

She has one "simple" task to complete to earn her way back home. Too bad the monster she needs to capture is hunting her, too. Nobody said Fae life was easy... Reine has one minor loose end to tie up before she'll be allowed to return to Faerie - an invisible soul-eating creature is on the loose at a major fantasy convention, and the hotel manager doesn't believe in the paranormal. As if living in a horror movie isn't bad enough, Reine's brother...