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The Voyage of the Minotaur

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In a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten, an expedition sets out to establish a colony in a lost world. The Voyage of the Minotaur is a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and...

on Wed, 1AM

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Particular Passages: Autumn Breezeway

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There is a chill in the air. Something is coming. Change is coming. It's a time to celebrate. It's a time to hide. It's a time to get ready for the things we don't expect. It's time to open up the Autumn Breezeway. Edited by Sam Knight. Associate Editor Bailey Finn Stories by: Steve Ruskin, Jude...

on Tue, 8PM

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Better Angels: Tour de Force

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The Better Angels. Entertainment. Music and Dancing. And Rescues!

on Tue, 3PM

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Revin's Heart

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A young man falls in with airship pirates … and discovers how to follow his heart.

on Tue, 3PM

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Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds

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When Australian journalist Alan Villiers sailed on the last of the giant merchant windjammers in the 1920s and '30s, his writings and photographs made him famous. Villiers crewed on beautiful Herzogin Cecilie and tragic Grace Harwar, took tiny Joseph Conrad around the globe, sailed on Arabian...

on Tue, 7AM

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The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: Volume 5

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The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: Volume 5 features a variety of different works by seven contributors: Elena Anufriyeva (paintings), Azelle Elric (drawings), Deni Weeks (stories, paintings), Marjolein Rotsteeg (stories, poetry), James Penha (haiku), Cendrine Marrouat (poetry,...

on Mon, 5PM

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Russell Phillips

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Russell Phillips writes books and articles about military technology and history. Born and brought up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, they have lived and worked in South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cumbria and Staffordshire. Russell has always had a deep interest in history and conflicts...

on Mon, 2PM

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Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog

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A man on the run from his wife's wrath after selling her dog. A dozen crash-landed bounty hunter clones. An alien on the tracks of the man who scammed him. An intergalactic detective looking for a mysterious artefact. Above all, a world which is familiar but yet is slightly off - legalized...

on Mon, 12PM

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Shousetsu Bang*Bang 109: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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Shousetsu Bang*Bang issue 109 was released on June 24, 2024. The theme the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. This issue contains stories of queer romance which are between 1500 and 25,000 words and include explicit sexual content.

on Fri, 5PM

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E H Timms

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E H Timms won the BBC Wildlife Young Poet of the Year award, hasn't managed to stop writing since, and now lives in South West England with a computer tethered to one elbow and far too many books.

on Fri, 12PM

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Forgotten Homeland: A Supernatural Ghost Novella Story

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Lorne Turner, a broken soldier, arrives home for the first time in twenty years to an empty, lonely farmhouse on Exmoor. The coming days reveal the despair of a farm drowning in debt. The coming nights reveal something far worse. Lorne doesn't know if the noises, the crack, crack, crack, are the...

on Fri, 10AM

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Wormwood Abbey

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As a Victorian clergyman's daughter, Edith Worms has seen everything — until a mythical salamander tumbles out of the fireplace into her lap. A cosy gothic fantasy, deliciously full of dragons, secrets, and tea.

on Fri, 10AM

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She Goes to War

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With the return of her arch-nemesis to the world, in 1972, the Hunter literally goes to war, finding herself drawn to Vietnam, once more backed up by her demon hunting allies, but as all that faced the horrors of the Vietnam War, she finds her time there trying and emotionally difficult....

on Jun 26

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She Hunts Demons

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"Sugar and spice and everything nice?" Perhaps the standard, off-the-shelf girl may be made from such things, but this half-demon? She isn't sweet, she isn't nice and you really shouldn't call her spicy, because she's got a magic hat full of weapons, a bad attitude and a mischievous sense of...

on Jun 26

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Aladdin and the Invaders

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A thousand and six hundred years ago, at the foot of a rocky mountain, there was a city that had high walls that were built out of stout stones. Throughout its long history, the city has resisted many invaders, and its mighty army thwarted their attack every single time. This city, with its...

on Jun 26

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Faded Fragments

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Being magickally inclined is punishable by death. secrets run rampant through the city. Lucy, Liliana and Travis are three sides of the same triangle. Witch, Watcher, Werewolf. Nefertiti and Karrept are lovers who had time stolen from them. A queen and a head priest. They have to learn to live...

on Jun 26

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Summer Tales From Cozy Vales

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A delightful collection of cozy fantasy stories set in the coziest of worlds!

on Jun 25

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Winter Tales from Cozy Vales

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A delightful collection of cozy fantasy stories set in the coziest of worlds! Grab your blanket and favorite hot beverage because this anthology of has hours of holiday reading waiting for you! "Winter Tales" is set in Cozy Vales, an original fantasy shared world.

on Jun 25

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Max Hernandez

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The author welcomes thoughts, suggestions, and criticism from readers of his book. He can be reached at MaxHernandez@protonmail.com

on Jun 24

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The Third Wish

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Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince all work togther, using a time machine, bent on changing history to improve their place in it, but the Steel Wizard, Levi Jacobs, stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers...

on Jun 20

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BattleTech: Shrapnel, Issue #17 (The Official BattleTech Magazine)

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ENTER THE ARENA! Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine is your spotlight for tales of brutal, one-on-one BattleMech action in the no-holds-barred gladiatorial arenas of the 31st century and beyond! A patsy expected to take a fall must utilize every asset at his disposal to avoid becoming...

on Jun 9

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The Key of Darkness

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In this short story, Morauk, a young Warrior, is tasked with escorting Rastar, an irritable old wizard, to find and destroy the Key of Darkness, that which causes men to go mad with fear. Enter Balkor, a man turned demon by the possession of the evil black key he found when Banished to the...

on Jun 8

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The Time Capsule

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Alex's world is turned upside down after he drunkenly digs up a time capsule he burried eight years earlier. Now, Alex and his wife Mia must return the time capsule before a presence only known as 'He' catches them.

on Jun 8

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on Jun 8

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Molly J. Bragg

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Molly J. Bragg is a 45-year-old autistic trans woman with a degree in Astrophysics and a love of storytelling. She loves science fiction, superheroes, and giant robots. Her hobbies include collecting transformers, watching way too many crafting videos on YouTube, playing Dungeons & Dragons,...

on Jun 2

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Emergence

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A three-year-old girl walks out of a cornfield into a tiny farming village… There is no clue to how she got there, and she speaks a language that baffles even the village mages. Is she a witch? The result of a wizard's errant spell? By the time she starts school she is already an outcast, and...

on May 30

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A Pony In Time

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Dela's new job comes with a chronometer and a lot of questions. With her socius and service animal Freckles, a Pony of the Americas, by her side she knows she can handle anything. Will her job come with more than she bargained for? The idea of finding obscure magical artifacts before they fall...

on May 30

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How Not To Avoid Jet Lag & Other Tales Of Travel Madness

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A collection of creative nonfiction, journalism and hallucinatory dreamscapes from China, Belize, Taiwan, Singapore, and other exotic locales. Author and veteran Lonely Planet guidebook writer Joshua Samuel Brown guarantees that each of the nineteen tales in HNTAJL&ototm are "100% free of useful...

on May 30

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Hot Nerd Girls

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Three college sophomores take off for a weekend of fun, excitement, and unbridled geekdom at a sprawling scifi convention. But the young ladies have an additional agenda: to finally lose their virginity and have the types of steamy sensual escapades they always dreamed of. Will the cute and...

on May 29

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Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter

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Not your normal Friday night in the computer room. Not a normal night anywhere. Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy garbage. KDE and Gnome on a server? Nope, if you need a GUI use FVWM. The latest trend Terry...

on May 26

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Free-Wrench

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Beyond the islands of Caldera the world is a vicious place. A terrible calamity has poisoned the land. Those too ruthless or stubborn to die have crafted steam-powered mechanical wonders and taken to the sky. Yet somewhere in that wretched land there is a cure for a dire disease. With the...

on May 25

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Hot Dino Girls 3

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On an alternate Earth populated by human-dinosaur hybrids, normal human Mike Ardavan shares his life and bed with three horny dinosaur-women twice his size while working at Niska's Bed and Breakfast Inn. Steamy passions run high as the discovery of mysterious ruins reveals an ancient secret...

on May 23

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Liar

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Lies come in all sizes, little white ones, medium but harmless ones, and great big lies that cause heartache and pain to those all around you for no good reason. Robert Tidsdale is a pathological liar who employs all of these lies on a near-daily basis, if for no other reason than because he’s...

on May 23

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The Lone Android

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In a world devoid of life, a lone android roams the desolate Earth, its circuits humming with memories of a forgotten civilization. With each step, it searches for purpose amidst the ruins, haunted by the echoes of humanity's demise. (P.S. Even a lone robot could use a couple quarters. Please...

on May 23

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Zinnia Sassafrass and Lantern's Light

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Zinnia Sassafrass was born into a poor shepherd family. Her face badly scarred, the diminutive halfling seemed doomed to a hard-scrabble life of abuse and poverty. But soon she’s catapulted into a years-long struggle leading to an undreamed-of destiny. Yet before becoming a powerful mystical...

on May 21

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Dryad

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Marooned on an unknown planet, xenobiologists Kendra Ling and Mona Favre must confront the mystery of bizarre alien 'dryads' if they are to survive. A fantastic tale of alien contact and transformation.

on May 19

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Damion Mondays

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on May 19

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Quentin Quick

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on May 18

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Tapping at Twilight

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A quiet London evening is disturbed by quiet rapping at the door, who or what could it be?

on May 16

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A Divine Tale

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This is a story about Seglaman the Snow God, and how other God’s use his sorry tale as a reminder to younger less experienced God's as a warning to never become too comfortable when ruling over mortals who worship them. If you read this story then I would much appreciate it if you would review...

on May 16

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The Killer Catfish of Cape Cod

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This is not a Halloween story though you might find monsters in it, depending on what your definition of a monster is. Rather, it is the tale of two young men in search of an eerie pond they read about in a book - a strange lake said to be filled with man-eating catfish. Against the counsel of...

on May 16

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A Fairy Tale Murder

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Kids are always good and witches are always bad right? Wrong you idiot! Step inside A Fairy Tale Murder and discover the grissly truth. A short story by D.N.Smith

on May 16

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An English Heaven

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A muddy trench in France during the Great War wasn't the most auspicious place for Tom and Michael to reach an understanding of their own natures. A small, individual tragedy unfolds ... But then Tom discovers a place beyond, where he and other men like him are blessed with all that life denied them.

on May 16

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Foo Foo

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The mice of the Squeak Republic have been attacked by rabbits! Can Milton keep his neighbors from going insane in the face of an overwhelming, shadowy fear?

on May 16

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Zinnia After Dark

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The ADULTS ONLY version of ZINNIA SASSAFRASS AND LANTERN'S LIGHT. Zinnia Sassafrass was born into a poor shepherd family and seemed doomed to a hard-scrabble life, but soon she’s catapulted into a years-long struggle leading to an undreamed-of destiny as a powerful mystic warrior.

on May 16

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Mark Cantrell

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A coffee-guzzling journalist turned author, Mark Cantrell has chased the literary dream for years. Somehow, it's always managed to stay one step ahead, but Mark perseveres in his pursuit all the same. There are worse ways to kill time, after all. Mark is the author of two novels (so far), both...

on May 12

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Blue Skin: Book One

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What would you do if they came for your child? It started in a small town, and quickly spread. The arrival of a baby is no longer a time of joy, but the harbinger of terror as a virus is unleashed on humanity, infecting our most tender and vulnerable urge - our need to reproduce. They hunt, they...

on May 9

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The Last Voyage of Harmony - The Lost Files Part 01

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Witness the arrival of alien vampires on planet Gamorphia. Watch how they invade the defenseless planet. See how Luc, an ordinary man survives the vampire horde. This is not the end but the beginning of a new colonization. The only thing we can do is fight, and wait for a force to appear to...

on May 9

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A Creak In The Night

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Dean surprises Jimbo with a weekend way to the exotic location of—Virginia. Since the two of them got married Dean has become more curious about the paranormal, while Jimbo prefers to distance himself from it. As soon as they arrive at the hotel Jimbo knows something isn't quite right, and one...

on May 9