Fiction

	Title	Editor rating (1-5)	Reader rating
	Short Stories - Wyn Preston - Excerpt: "Richard! Hello" she almost asks. She wears a face of complex confusion, as though I shouldn't be in this continent, let alone this street. Her head tilts as her stare falls just short of hitting my eyes as though trying to read something printed upside-down. It...		3.5
	Where Roses Fall - Melanie Ridner - Chloe Matthews was a young girl growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. All of her life she’d been told to act the way other young girls acted, but seldom did she heed this advice. In fact, Chloe didn’t want to grow up at all, and if she heeded her mother’s words, then she’d have to admit the fact...		3.6
	No Further Messages - Brett Savory - WARNING some readers may be upset by the extreme violence in some of the stories. No Further Messages comprises 21 hard-hitting horror short stories. The subjects are not supernatural but deal instead with the more worldly evils of murder, violence, insanity, and torture....	5	3.6
	Grunt RX-10 - Martin Kolacek - Grunt RX-10 is a sci-fi comedy about a neurotic machine who is so depressed by being a metallic item without a soul that he becomes a renegade in the world of machines. While escaping the High computer's servants he snatches a female machine and looks forward to interconnecting the fuel tanks...		3.6
	Mountain Wild - Judith Bronte - Josiah Brown is a half-breed Blackfoot mountain man, trapping the Rocky Mountain streams. After saving Emma Perkins from raiding Blackfoot Indians, Josiah decides to marry her. Emma Perkins suddenly finds herself the wife of a wild and leathery mountain man. His rough and tumble temperament go...		3.6
	Are You Positive? - Stephen Davis - Ripped from the headlines of today's news, Are You Positive? is a fictitious courtroom drama in the style of John Grisham. 26-year-old Tyree Johnson stands accused of first degree murder in a prominent South Carolina courtroom. But his murder weapon is not a gun or a knife; in fact, there...	4	3.7
	Worlds Unseen - Rachel Starr Thomson - When a dying friend shows up at Maggie’s home bearing proof that the 'myths' are reality and that the enemy of the ancient days is coming back - and their only hope of stopping him is in finding the King - Maggie agrees to carry the proof to a scholar who may be able to help her piece together...	5	3.7
	A Chorus of Complaints - Frank Atanacio - 100 chilling slugs of dark poetry designed to 'violate the peace and dignity of your mind'. Excerpt: "there were no choices, as the soldiers heard the voices, passed loved ones came to show the way, with candles lit for such a dreary day, death had no...		3.7
	Healthy or Else & other stories - Allan Regier - This is a collection of four short stories by Allan B Regier. 'Healthy or Else' is a speculative satire about the health care industry assuming dictatorial powers in a recognizable near future society. It is the story of one family's brush with the health care regime and what happens to...	4	3.7
	The Ice Cream Memories of Charlotte Rowe - Teresa Perrin - Divination from the spirit world. Con artistry. Cats and mirrors. The implications of Freudian psychology. Death. Life. Birth. Murder. And ice cream. ... Charlotte Rowe is the daughter of a psychologist who attempts to invent a machine that can talk with God. She has been cast in the role of...		3.7