A TRANSCENDENT Excerpt: “Butterflies Eating the Dead” by Kate Morgan

Lyra Gentium reread the last line of the credit card company’s direct marketing letter, scratched out the final three words, tried two different words, scratched those out, and scowled at the wreck. The escapist photos of woods and beaches and mountains pinned to her gray cubicle walls failed her today. Four simultaneous phone conversations breached…

Sean Padraic McCarthy, a Featured Interview

If you haven’t heard of our new project, the On Fire anthology, this interview series will showcase our authors lives beyond their ignited tales. In Sean Padraic McCarthy’s “The Solstice Memory,” a corpse haunts Simon’s family as his marriage falls apart, his only hope a little solstice magic, a shovel, and some fire. How long have you been writing? …

Stephen McQuiggan, a Featured Interview

In Stephen McQuggan’s “The Passing of Mickey Rulebook,” a man mourns his firebug of a friend only to be consumed by Mickey’s demons.

Dead Week

Hello, my Feisty ones! It is dead week… *screams in exhaustion* A lot of college students are going through something that happens every semester. Finals. These are the worst days of our lives. Remember in the good-ole-high-school days when end of the year testing was horrible. University finals are the same thing, but on crack….

Announcing Our New Fire-Themed Call for Submissions

Fire is alive, a sentient element that can create or destroy.  Once ignited, fire can feed an army or destroy a city.  Both tools and weapons are forged in flames.  Stories and spells have been cast by its warm, flickering light since the dawn of dreams.  Millions of miles away, combusting stars illuminate the night. …

Announcing Like Clockwork by Ali Abbas

Hello, lovely readers and writers! We are excited to announce our newest addition to the Transmundane collection: Like Clockwork by Ali Abbas, expected out February 28th, 2017. Like Clockwork is a gothic suspense/horror/mystery/anti-romance with some steampunk elements set in Victoria England. Commander Raymond Burntwood of the Royal Navy has returned to England where he meets the reclusive…