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Code Reaper by E L Strife
“Tell me about Carysth and Lorre. The truth, or I’ll pop that bubble gut you have–greedy pig.” In a digital future, bodies aren’t the only mess that needs to be cleaned up when someone dies. Just as dead flesh rots, people’s digital bodies also go putrid when they die. Criminals steal identities to take out…
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Synchronize by Joseph Hartz
Yeah, the bird was a telepath. He was also an android. And his name was Death Bird. A conduit can look like anything: a necklace, a bracelet, a wristwatch. People use them to store the blueprints for things: clothes, guns, toothbrushes. When you need something, your conduit materializes it and there you have it. Everyone…
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The Bandaged (The Empyrean Saga Book Two) by Steve Stred
Dr Albert Eldridge built a spaceship, a refuge from an Earth that was quickly becoming uninhabitable, and saved humanity. Now it’s time to kill him. Floods, drought, wildfires, famine, overpopulation, rising sea levels: people don’t make plans until it’s too late. But Eldridge did. He built a space station the could orbit Earth until the…
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Ghost Story & Other Crypto Tales by Brian Michael Stegner
What do you do when you accidentally run over someone’s cryptokitty? In a world where hard-won NFT rights are enforced by the death penalty, and right-click attacks are rare, and nobody talks about the digital refugee crises, the only way to get into the iGarden is to wear a dongle…and nobody likes dongles. You need…
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This Is How It Ends by Desiree Middleton
We trusted dogs. We shouldn’t have. Dogs are out best friend, aren’t they? We love them. We feed them and keep them warm and play games with them. We make them the heroes of our stories. Every child knows Old Yeller, Lassie, Buck, Benji, Clifford, and Scooby-Doo. Dogs are our best friend, aren’t they? We…
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Bodies by A S French
Contrary to popular opinion, murder makes you hungry. Cornelius “Corndog” Klaw keeps trying to kill himself. Luckily, he’s been able to get the drop on himself (four times so far), but the body parts are piling up and now his head is in the fridge with a screwdriver sticking out the ear. He clearly need…
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A Shot in the Dark by Armon Mikal
When you are an aspiring drug runner for up-and-coming criminals in the crowded city of Luckhaven, life and death comes down to customer service. It’s good customer service to answer the phone when your fixer calls, even if you’re in the middle of sex with a pleasure robot. It’s good customer service to make sure…