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...

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...

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...

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...

In this issue: • 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...

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!

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...

• 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...

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...

Wade Wilson, codename: Deadpool is the only one capable of hunting down a rogue CIA agent and recovering the stolen nuclear suitcase she's carrying before she hands it over to America's Cold War enemies. But who is this femme fatale, and why has she turned traitor? And is Deadpool crazy enough to survive this pulp caper?