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    Kaaron Warren’s Ghostly Reads while writing Going To Summertime

    By Kaaron Warren I’ve always been obsessed with ghost stories, true and imagined. I love the chill they bring, in the moments when you realise you’re in the room with dead people. Ghosts are frightening because we don’t understand them. They bring evidence of life after this one, but we don’t know why they’re still […] More

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    Robbing the everyday: Accidental inspiration

    By Eugen Bacon Stories are everywhere. The muse can whisper from the most unexpected crooks and turns. I often find inspiration in a passing news broadcast, where my mind clasps onto a single word, an unusual person, or a strange event and simply refuses to let go. Other times, a small juxtaposition of words acts […] More

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    Review of Seb Doubinsky’s Liberation Now!

    by Caroline Hagood Doubinsky pens a host of colorful characters—including outlaws, finance vampires, computer-savvy strippers, ex-scholars, drug-dealing underground operatives, rockstars, and disappeared presidents—who inhabit equally vibrant locales, such as the memorably titled store, Poisoned Sea Bikinis, built on a noxious seashore, run by an ex-stripper turned bikini designer. But these set pieces aren’t merely superficial; […] More

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    Review of Finding Joy by Anika Toro

    There is something quietly radical about Anika Toro’s Finding Joy — a mixed media art book that asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when you strip away everything but the essential? In a cultural moment when so much feels overwhelming, chaotic, and beyond our control, this book arrives as both a creative manifesto and […] More

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    Review of anOther Nemesis by Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Eugen Bacon and Maxwell I. Gold

    by Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD anOther Nemesis, the symphonic collaboration of four outstanding poets, is a poetry collection with deep, unvarnished insights into various aspects of humankind’s self-destructive nature. It is divided into four main sections: I. The Colonizers, II. Primal Sources, III. Nameless Others, and IV. Crooked Ontologies. Each section has 3–5 poems written […] More

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    Kathe Koja shares her SKIN playlist

    By Kathe Koja SKIN is a novel that loves sound: the wrench and clang of metal, the hiss of water hitting iron, the murmurs and shrieks of an audience, the whisper of blood on the knife. So of course it needs a suitable playlist. Inspired by a reader’s question during the Meerkat Press launch, here’s […] More

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    G.D. Penman Shares 5 of Their Top Urban Fantasy Books

    I’ve just finished writing an Urban Fantasy trilogy, so what better way to celebrate than by talking some more about Urban Fantasy. The genre has changed a lot since I first started reading it way back when, but the things that I loved about it are still here. The magic and mystery of a hidden […] More

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    Review of Paperclip by Seb Doubinsky: cool prose, serene mind, impish wit.

    Review by Dominique Hecq Cool prose, serene mind, impish wit. In Paperclip – Seb Doubinsky’s new installment in his internationally renowned city-states cycle of novels takes the reader into a fantastical, yet convincing world to explore our darkest secrets and inner conflicts. Set in New Babylon, the book details the sometimes tortuous nature of desire […] More

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    FIVE DARK INSPIRATIONS by J. Ashley-Smith

    We are pleased to welcome J. Ashley-Smith, author of the newly released Ariadne, I Love You. Be sure to check out his work and enter the $50 giftcard giveaway at the bottom of this article. I was in a very particular headspace when I wrote Ariadne, I Love You. Keen to explore a very particular […] More

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