The end came faster than he could have hoped. Coyote, twenty-nine and balding since seventeen, who could be seen each morning at his company’s office building through the tinted windows of the fourth-floor gym, a ghost with fluorescent aura slowly erased by encroaching daybreak; who hadn’t taken a vacation since joining this above-average, medium-to-large corporation…
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Throwback Thursday | An ON FIRE Excerpt: “The Dancing Lilly” by Anthony S. Buoni
The neon lights lit the cobblestones underneath the Flat Five’s awning, casting a surreal blue haze over the club’s entrance. Muted jazz poured onto the streets as I passed a dirty dachshund panhandling for change or leftovers. The snake at the door, Nick, stopped me on my way in and motioned at the duffel bag…
Throwback Thursday | An ON FIRE Excerpt: “Chrysopoeia” by Megan Dorei
At 9:09 a.m., the lab exploded. Ayden had been monitored so closely for so long that she kept track of the clock. She allowed herself one final glimpse of it before she destroyed everything. For nostalgia’s sake. The morning was mild aside from the blazing rubble, the sky silk and lavender, the sun a vague…
Throwback Thursday | An ON FIRE Excerpt: “Mysteries of the Dragon” by Jean Roberta
When the land is dry, fire is an angry god to be appeased with prayers and sacrifice. Rain learned this when she was a little girl in the Garden of Misbegotten Children. A visiting priest taught all the children and their caretakers how human sin in the First Age had made the Great Dragon so…
Throwback Thursday | An ON FIRE Excerpt: “Fire Night” by J. Lee Strickland
I’ll go now to the well. That’s next, like every day. Water no less wet that William’s gone, and drinking no less necessary that no pleasure gives. That plate there on the sideboard needs a rinse and, too, the spoon, like every day. Tiarella takes the two oak buckets and their yoke from the low shelf…
Throwback Thursday |An ON FIRE Excerpt: “Red Curtain” by Jaclyn Adomeit
The girl smells like the laundry soap of my childhood, but I haven’t smelled anything close to fresh-breeze or lilac-mist in years. I splash canteen water on her face. She sputters, choking as she inhales. I step back and crouch down across the cooking fire. Laundry searches the dark trees, her pony tail whipping back…
Back to School Anthology Sale!
We’re celebrating the season of back to school by putting our anthologies on sale! Whether you’ve already started back to classes or are about to, we have collections to consume in one go and those that can last the semester! Both of our BIG anthologies—we’re talking 60+ stories—are a special $5 off the print editions!…
Throwback Thursday |An ON FIRE Excerpt: “The Clearing” by K.N. Johnson
We gathered on summer nights electric with the spectacle of storms, the promise of charred messages from the gods. The wind lifted our feet from the ground as we raced through the musty woods. Small branches snapped, green leaves sacrificed to pad our muddy path. At the clearing, trees stood back, and all knew to hush, to press lips…
Jaclyn Adomeit, a Featured Interview
If you haven’t heard of our new project, the On Fire anthology, this interview series will showcase our authors and their writing lives beyond their ignited tales. In Jaclyn Adomeit’s “Red Curtain,” a young woman fights to survive in an apocalyptic America. How long have you been writing? I came to writing a bit late in the game….
Anthology Artwork: a Holiday Update
Hello, lovelies! I hope y’all are enjoying the holiday season with it’s fun sweaters, family time, awesome food, and the best time of year to eat way too much candy without worrying that others find you socially acceptable, you know, if you’re worried about that. My holiday season is filled with finishing up projects. And…
A Brief History of Firefighting by Rie Sheridan Rose
Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Rie Sheridan Rose, author of “Fira Dances” which will be featured in the upcoming anthology ON FIRE out and on sale this week. “Ignis! Ignis! Erecti! Terror! Ignis! Ignis!” Cries rang through the night as watchmen raised the alarm. The genesis of firefighting can be traced at least as…
Intern Diares: The Launch
Feisty ones! It’s here and I am freaking out. All the stressful decisions and the constant fighting with technology has built up to this moment. What am I talking about? The launch of our new anthology, On Fire. I cannot explain the amount of relief this book’s release is setting upon me. Seeing Alisha slave…
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