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Evie and Carlotta are expecting the imminent arrival of their first child when an unusual group of men claims to have come for their son. Building off of a pendant that one of the men wears and her own research into pecked crosses across the world, Evie uncovers secrets related to the organization the men serve, pecked crosses, and her wife's family history.

CROSS AND CIRCLE by Dawn Vogel (words and cover art)!

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"Vivienne’s power swirls around her face and body, down her arm to her free hand, where it resolves itself in a long katana of jet-black steel: a fearsword. ... That weapon is sorrow and loss and insanity-cracking horror."

LIBATIONS FOR THE DEAD (Justice/Vengeance Book 1) by Erik Scott de Bie, cover art by Claudio Pozas!

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"When I was little, I didn't have an imaginary friend, I had an imaginary bully. She was a little girl of my age, who looked just like me, and took great delight in being cruel. This included doing things to make my parents furious, like punching my little brother. One day, when I was about thirteen, Ludwig showed up and wrapped all two hundred of his copper-bladed arms around this evil version of me. There was a warm light, like a camera flash made of lava, and then she was gone." -- Sam Fleming, "Ludwig"

Are they in our imagination, or are we in theirs? Mad Scientist Journal has brought together twenty-six tales of people with uncertain existence. These accounts range from cheerful to dark, stopping off at frequent points between. Imaginary friends share space with witches, monsters, nightmares, and maybe a few things that have not yet been dreamed. Cover art by Luke Spooner / Carrion House!

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Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The Unfixed Timelines Omnibus collects three volumes of the Unfixed Timelines series, mixing speculative fiction with pieces of history. Inside, you'll find twenty stories and poems, each accompanied by a brief essay detailing the history that the story or poem twists.

Words and cover art by Dawn Vogel!

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The oceans rose, plant life withered, and humans could no longer reproduce. Now, years later, Lemy has found evidence of a place impacted only by the ocean rise. But the politics are even more treacherous than they were at home. With only a child to trust, she must navigate this new landscape to keep herself and Sky alive.

BARREN, a post-apocalyptic, climate-change novella by Dawn Vogel (words and cover art)!

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"We can't live without gravity, Commander Archer," Captain Belcher said.
"I cannot begin to explain to you the multitude of ways in which that is an incorrect statement, Captain," Scarlett replied.

WREATHED IN STEAM by Dawn Vogel (words and cover art)! Find our books at defconone . com!

"When you see the train marked with paint of an indescribable color, something close to purple-blue, with an iridescent sheen of fuchsia, travelling southbound, do not make a move. The train will stop for you. And it will take you to find what you need."

CHIMERICAL REMEMBRANCES by Dawn Vogel (words and cover art)!

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"Likewise, Jeremy Red, the most powerful telepath ever recorded, had been a resident since 2004, after having killed over two hundred people one by one in one of Cobalt City’s darkest moments.

The Fermi Institute was where the monsters lived." - VOTE FOR STARDUST (Mad World Cycle Book 4) by Nathan Crowder, cover art by M. Pritchard!

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"In fact, they all rush in, completely without tactics of any kind, Artie at the fore. Wren at least flashes Vivienne an apologetic look.

It goes about as well as could be expected."

- PRETTY HATE MACHINE (Girl Vengeance 1) by Erik Scott de Bie, cover art and additional character art of Artie by Kelsey Dawn Scott!

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Cobalt City is home to super heroes and villains. And trouble follows the heroes even when they aren't at home. Kara Sparx and three different incarnations of the Huntsman battle killer Ferris wheels, mecha, clockwork ex-presidents, and Russian communists in five different stories of daring and adventure!

SPARX & ARROWS by Dawn Vogel, cover art by Luke Spooner / Carrion House!

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"A collection of stories about women leading their team to triumph. Many of them are military, but a refreshing number of them took a more metaphorical route." Praise for BATTLING IN ALL HER FINERY: HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF OTHERWORLDLY WOMEN LEADERS

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"Seattle is a city of runners. Every other car has a '13.1' or a '26.2' sticker plastered to it. So when the much-anticipated zombie apocalypse arrived, I longed to be back in the sedentary Midwest." - "Origin Story" in HEROES OF NECESSITY by Dawn Vogel (words and cover art)

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