Mel: 697 books

Loyalty. Desperation. Grief. Eight months ago a mysterious drug killed Tess Gordon’s brother, and now it’s spreading through her rehab counseling clients. They all claim they're not addicted, the drug leaves no trace except its drained victims, and the cops aren’t interested. Aching...

Amila is just like most other twelve year old girls; in a hurry to get older, or at the very least, a little taller. She often wondered why her mother had given her a name like hers. It was quite different from other names and everybody pronounced it differently. Her mother had an easy to pronounce...

You are always in some combination of medieval Japan or modern Los Angeles. At every turn there is someone leading you either to the highest transcendent state or into inexcusable vice, or some combination of both. In the final analysis, ancient Kyoto and current Santa Monica are one reality. Inebriation...

An anxiety-disordered poet sedates himself with multiple glasses of chardonnay and boards a nonstop flight from SFO to YEG and writes two cycles of short, spontaneous poems as he scours the greater Edmonton metro area for phenomena that will inspire his unruly and jaded mind. This collection of five-line...

In this issue: View mortality and morality through a different set of eyes with a classic SF story from Robert Silverberg and a brand-new one from Leo X Robertson; take a timeless bus ride with JTF King; visit 1930s Hollywood with Mel Anastasiou; experience dizzy heights in a comic collaboration from...

Under the exquisite cover Frost and Snow by Melissa Mary Duncan … Our featured author, the esteemed Evelyn Lau, offers three poems riddled with grief and stolen moments. Spencer Stevens takes a break from the front lines in the final Seven Swans instalment, ‘The Mystery of the Forgotten Soldier’,...

The Master of the Wild Hunt In a single cataclysm of magic shattering a centuries-old bond of servitude, the Unseelie Queen of Forest Park loses her fiercest huntsman. Now Hunter is free to abscond with half her court and the Wild Hunt is his to command. Yet between the Queen's deadly incursions...

Eloise Peterson knows what she wants from life. To be a household name like famous super models before her; to grace the cover of every magazine in doctor and dentist offices around the world; to be admired by women, and men, for her ambitions. Just as her dreams hit fruition, one of the people closest...

A crippled, anxiety-ridden, precocious, apostate youth minister leaves his ministry to become a motel desk clerk in a sometimes tacky / sometimes upscale tourist motel in suburban Orange County. He lumbers around in a full-length walking cast as his fragile leg-bones are resistant to healing. His...

Wage Slave is born deformed to a family of heavy drinkers. His mother is a paranoid schizophrenic. He is mentally ill and disabled, but he is can't afford good enough doctors to make his disability case, so he lives in the netherworld between unemployment and disability. The pressure of not being...

Lots of things get Harry hot, but nothing gets him as hot as the coveted green tablecloths at his favorite restaurant. While dining with his son, Harry admits that he and his wife have taken a trial separation. However, Harry's focus on re-building his marriage is decimated as the green tablecloths beckon and hilarity ensues.

With plague spreading and vampires rising, what would you do to survive? For Sam, surviving her trip through Europe takes a lot of luck. Some good, most of it bad. When she hears a virulent plague is wiping out everything back home, she gets drunk. But that gets her stuck on a quarantine ship...

After her entanglement in financial fraud and an FBI investigation, all Gilly Harris wants is to move on with her life, run her beloved coffee shop, and pay her legal bills. She's done with men who involve her in their shady schemes. Trouble is, those men aren't quite through with Gilly. Marine...

Ms. S is getting married and naturally wants her wedding to go smoothly. But her fiancé has raised a thorny question: Can she safely invite her father? Private eye Koji Remote deploys his surveillance skills to find the answer.