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1) Pulp
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"Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word--tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past?"--Provided by publisher
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Pulp Bytes Volume One contains nine twisted tales of technological terror. Among the stories in the horror/sci-fi anthology are: "Easy RIDR," a rough ride revealing the potential pitfalls of not paying attention while using a ride-share app; "Training Day," an adventure in apathy, empathy, and a police officer that murders an unarmed man; and "Terms and Conditions," a story of a couple whose nightmares come true when they ignore the fine print. This...
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Under the exquisite cover Frost and Snow by Melissa Mary Duncan...
• Our featured author, the esteemed Evelyn Lau, offers three poems riddled with grief and stolen moments.
• Spencer Stevens takes a break from the front lines in the final Seven Swans instalment, 'The Mystery of the Forgotten Soldier', by Mel Anastasiou.
• Echo wanes as Narcissus waxes in Joelle Kidd's modern retelling, 'Echo/Narcissus'; while a Pythia of Apollo unweaves 25...
4) The Hunters
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With friends like these...Caroline Tate seems to have it all: she's beautiful, married to a wealthy and handsome man, and newly relocated from Boston to an exotic island off the coast of Thailand. But beneath the veneer of perfection lurk secrets of betrayal and tragedy that make her volatile and vulnerable.When Caroline is befriended by a seductive American widow and a charmingly mysterious Englishman she is drawn into a sinister spiral of manipulation...
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Under the wise gaze of 'The Butterfly Witch' by Melissa Mary Duncan, this issue promises at least two sides to every story.
Siblings work through past hurts and begin new journeys in 'Old Gifts' by feature author James Sallis and 'Can-on-a-String' by Alex Kitt. Meanwhile, zombies do double duty in 'Ambience' by Jason P Burnham and 'Caught Dead' by Shawn L Bird. We navigate new lands with Pete Barnstrom in 'Oeufs Dangereux' and Cheryl Skory Suma in...
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Featured author Kelly Robson shows us that wine making is a labor of love, and sometimes hate, in 'Good for Grapes'.
Matthew Hughes's magnum opus, What the Wind Brings, debuts aboard the Spanish galleon La Virgen, with an epic struggle brewing on the horizon.
Stella Ryman is ready for new adventures in Stella Ryman and the Locked Room Mystery by Mel Anastasiou, while Allaigna must make hasty goodbyes in the final chapter of Allaigna's Song: Aria by...
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With the beautiful red pointe shoe of On Thin Ice, cover artist Ann-Marie Brown offers this issue's poignant opening act. Just as a dancer in pointe appears weightless, suspended in a moment of grace, so too do our authors, balancing the weight of beauty and sorrow.
Blood and booze set the stage in 'Wrap Party' as featured author AM Dellamonica takes us behind the scenes of community theatre.
It's turtles all the way down as Frances Rowat explores...
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• The stunning Queen of Swords by cover artist Tais Teng guards the gates to this issue's brave new worlds and words.
• In 'The Bicolour Spiral' by Matthew Hughes, the ever-popular Erm Kaslo explores hostile planets, tracks treasure hunters, and seeks stolen fortune. Matt's futuristic Sam Spade leaves no bloodstained stone, unturned in this space opera of mystery and murder.
• Life itself spirals with being and absence in 'Watershakers'...
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• Experience the motley horrors of World War II, as featured author JJ Lee reunites us with his man of mystery and monsters in 'The Man in the Long Black Coat: Bekker', and Robin Malcolm unearths long-buried secrets in 'The Bumblebee's Daughter'.
• The secrets continue in field and forest on Canada's west coast with Chuck Lim's 'The Red Tiger' and KT Wagner's 'Cabin Fever'.
• Meanwhile, appearances intrigue and deceive...
11) The Last Kill
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A hit man who has to kill his own daughter…When a 20-year-old American volunteer is savagely assaulted and left for dead on a windswept island off the coast of Africa, her estranged father, contract killer Bill Blake, flies to her bedside. While he tries to find the courage to terminate his daughter's life support, Blake plots revenge against the men who attacked her: psycho gangbanger Johnny Zero and his crew.Young Creole detective, Babette Cupidon,...
12) Vengeance
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To avenge what she loves she must do what she hates...After Angie Rice's husband and 5-year-old daughter are senselessly murdered during a drug hit in a small desert border town, the sociopathic sheriff, Buck Dankworth, displays the bodies of two Mexican men to the media and declares they are the killers.Angie knows the real killers are being shielded by Dankworth, who is protecting his empire of crime and corruption. And she knows the only way she...
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• Join us as we raise a glass to the New Year and a new decade with Cheers by cover artist Melissa Mary Duncan.
• Ghosts rise from the depths of different pasts to haunt the pages of 'When Captain Picard Was My Dad' by feature author Finnian Burnett and 'The Haunted Ghost' by JJ Lee.
• Family both anchors and unmoors the varied casts of 'Moon Eater' by EC Dorgan, 'Field's Nocturne No. 10 in E Major' by Matt Lumbard, and 'The Golden...
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Our journey begins under the gaze of The Faery Godmother by cover artist Ashley Rose Goentoro. We step into a ghost story 'Man with Golden Helmet' by feature author Renée Sarojini Saklikar. Dawn Lo in 'Little Snowflake Girls' and Weiwei Xu in 'Chimera' introduce us to young people exploring meaningful questions of identity and belonging. Like trailside inukshuks, memories pile up and tumble away in 'Moons of Saturn' by James Dorr, 'Practising the...
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With A Foundations of Lies by cover artist Kris Sayer, we emerge from the dark woods with Tatterhood's loyal goat Bokki. Sword in hand (or mouth!), and fierce battle won, we are ready to take on the varied landscapes of this issue, no passport required.
In 'The Library Giant' by feature author Shashi Bhat, the struggle with nature, human nature, rages deep within. Meanwhile, in British Columbia and Iceland, ghosts of grief wander with the living...
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• Ups and Downs by cover artist M St James offers us a feathered familiar to guide our way through this issue, starting with 'The Caged Bird Sings in a Darkness of Its Own Creation' by feature author Richard Thomas.
• Winged creatures fly to the rescue in 'Olympian' by FJ Bergmann, 'Andouille' by Mike Carson, and 'Dragon's Greed' by Sherilyn Moreton and Anat Rabkin. But human rescues miss the mark in 'All our Swains Commend Her' by Mitchell J...
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Feature author Renée Sarojini Saklikar treats us to a Bramah and the Beggar Boy side tale in prose and poetry. We welcome back Cadence Mandybura, and enjoy slipstream and superheroes from Patrick Barb and Tom Jolly. Mel Anastasiou offers more Pretty Lies and JM Landels shows us the other side of the mirror in 'Zara's Song'. Plus the winners of the Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize!
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Take a spacewalk into the unknown with American Space Force by cover artist Tais Teng and feature story 'Above it All' by Robert J Sawyer. Dare we look below?
In the next Fairmount Manor mystery by Mel Anastasiou, Stella Ryman shows us how to receive the kindness of strangers, while in a new chapter of The Shepherdess by JM Landels, Toinette needs to accept the help of her foil. And in 'The Lady M' by Cat Girczyc, it's not always easy...
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It's summertime, and the water's fine ... or is it? 'Collector' by cover artist Akem beckons us beneath the surface and between the pages. But in 'A Collection of Secrets' by feature author Rhea Rose and 'The Island' by M Denise Beaton, we discover that some treasures are better left hidden.
Back on shore, summer brings around friends both new and old in 'Audrey and the Crow' by Cadence Mandybura, 'The Two Oh Four Six' by Dustin Moon,...
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Pulp Bytes volume 1
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Two twisted tales of technological terror! The first, "Junebug Bites Back," is the story of an overbearing pageant mom who gets her just desserts after purchasing supplements from the dark web. In "Terms and Conditions," Jack and Lacey's day of distraction turns to a nightmare when they ignore the fine print.
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