Best friends Melissa and Anahi attend a fan conference when killer pixies swarm the building. It’s up to Pinkie Pool, Ripley from Aliens, and a Halo squad to save the day.

Sam is a high school cross country runner stuck living with his divorced dad when the pandemic shuts down traveling, hanging with friends, even school. He’d rather be with his mom, who at least calls him by the right name and pronouns. The day goes from gloomy to terrifying when Dad gets a letter in the mail that seems to turn him into a different person. An angry person. Scared, and more alone than ever, Sam knows he has to act… or Dad, and Sam, will disappear for good. Personal Best was first published in the Pikes Peak Writer’s Anthology Fresh Starts in 2021

Devi Pruya is supposed to learn the stories of her people, carry them in her belly and weave them like her mother and grandmother. But Devi doesn’t think the stories are useful in the unrelenting desert she calls home. Until one special night when she weaves a story to stay alive.

Let these captivating fairy tale retellings sweep you into happily ever after. Re-imagined as black, trans women, come along with Cinderella, Erika, and Belle as they find love and laughter at the ends of their stories. Ella’s stepmother insists she’s a boy, but the princess sees her for the woman she is. When Ella is dumped at the edge of the kingdom, she finds strength in herself to create a new life. Erika’s father sends her across the ocean to the New World, only for a suspicious deckhand to throw her overboard mid-journey. With help from princess Ariel, and a little bit of magic, Erika learns how to live and love under the sea without her voice. Belle has been harassed by Gaston for years, and escapes into her books and the abandoned castle in the woods to get away. It turns out, the castle isn’t abandoned, and the Guardian who lives there thinks Belle deserves the whole world.

Sidal works as a seraph of the wall, a glowing beacon of safety in a world where the night spawns demons and the darkness is dangerous.

Meriam Blanc and Nathalie Landry fly for the US Air Force and are at war against the global monster phenomenon known as Leviathan: massive creatures that have risen from the sea to sweep destruction across the land. After a mission to test a new weapon reveals the Leviathan laying eggs by the thousands, Meriam and Nathalie are sent under water. If these new Tesla weapons can destroy the creatures before the surface, maybe humanity has a chance.

Gwen is a Jumper, able to pull her space ship through holes in space and cover vast distances in seconds. Perfect for moving people and goods. But there are things other than people in space, and a Jumper makes a tempting target.

Anxiety and terror rule Anna’s heart despite her business success. It all stems from a cake that has brought her bakery fame, and the disaster that befell her kitchen years ago. A disaster Anna survived, but is haunted by.

Myriam Blanc and her mute co-pilot Nathalie Landr, bi-plane pilots stationed off a giant flying airship, are about to be called into battle. The world has changed, Goliath monsters are rising from the deep. What do they want? Where are they going? And how do we stop them? Take two experienced pilots, a prototype lightning weapon made by Tesla, and send them to Spain to learn more.

Eric Deumont, captain of the pirate ship Armide, does not make a good Santa Claus. His partner Kyros disagrees and since the full moon is coming soon, Araceli can’t play the role. That leaves Eric to entertain the children and hand out presents. But there’s something different about this full moon. Something dangerous. The spirit trapped in Araceli’s body crawls closer to the surface with every passing hour, craving blood. It’s up to Eric to save Christmas.