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The first book in the Menopausal Superheroes series is the origin story! Find out where it all began:

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Back of book blurb: Going through “the change” isn’t easy on any woman. Mood swings, hot flashes, hormonal imbalances, and itchy skin are par for the course. But for these four seemingly unrelated women, menopause brought...

For fans of programs like Twilight Zone and Tales from the Darkside,13 weird tales set in a seemingly normal suburban neighborhood, with a hidden underbelly of supernatural happenings.

• Why is the guy across the street always mowing his lawn? (“Lawn Wars”)
• How about the house that always seems to be for sale again? (“The Bad Luck House”)
• What’s...

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Amanda Deaton left her hometown right after high school, looking for adventure. But now, thirty-five years later, her mom needs her, and this GenX nomad has come home. Bellevue, Kentucky has changed--they even have a Thai restaurant! And here where Amanda least expected it, a new kind of...

A collection of workplace horror to thrill and delight. My story "Say My Name" is about an icebreaker activity gone wrong.

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From the fluorescent-lit boardroom to the desolate isolation of a lonely spacecraft, Dread Mondays collects stories transforming the abstraction of mundane repetition into...

A multi-author collection of horror stories about what remains hidden. My story, "She Cries in the Night" is a sad and scary piece about a woman haunted by her own mistakes as well as by a night creature.

A bridge novella between Book 1: Going Through the Change and Book 2: Change of Life in the Menopausal Superheroes series. Where did Cindy Liu go when she got on that bus?

"The Mushroom Child" follows a woman off the path, into the woods, and into trouble.

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Enter the dark, mycelia-laden world of mushroom horror:

• A food blogger hunts for a killer recipe.
• Ceaseless rain drives a lonely man into his fungus-covered town.
• A grieving son purchases a kit to regrow his dead...

My story, "His Destroyer," is set during the 10th plague of Egypt. It's one of my favorite pieces I've ever written

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Mocha Memoirs Press is proud to present SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire — a revolutionary anthology celebrating vampires of the African Diaspora. SLAY is a groundbreaking unique collection and will be a must-have...

This second book in the Menopausal Superheroes series picks up just a few weeks after the events of books 1:

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With great power comes…great frustration!

After seeing a bigger transformation during their “change of life” than they ever expected, Patricia, Jessica, and Linda/Leonel are adjusting (sorta) to life...

"How Does Your Garden Grow?" is a story of vengeance…and carnivorous plants.

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A thwarted female defense attorney releases the baying of the hounds under a full moon, signaling the death of an era—and the birth of a new one under the Old Gods.

Most funerals are celebrations for the living—unless the guests decide to tempt fate...

"If the Moon is Real" follows a young girl raised underground to the surface of her world for the first time.

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You’ll see all types of the family corvidae in here: Ravens (of course), blue jays, choughs, magpies, lots and lots of crows, and even some alien corvids. The corvids are main characters and supporting players; they’...

The Menopausal Superheroes are coming out of the closet and the pressure is high, both on the job and on the homefront.

Now that he knows what it’s like to be a hero, Leonel “Fuerte” Alvarez can’t imagine going back to his former life as a grandmother and housewife. But putting his life on the line may cost him his husband even while he saves the...

Hero life is not all fistfights and mad scientists. Even superheroes need good press, especially when the world hasn’t decided whether superpowers are a blessing or...something else.

Flygirl and Fuerte’s next stop on the Unusual Cases Unit’s Good Will Tour is Springfield Women’s Hospital, a place close to Flygirl’s heart and a place redefined...

The city of Springfield cannot stay saved. Worse yet, the Menopausal Superheroes themselves are at risk this time, when a new mutation causes dangerous spikes in the unusual abilities of all the Liu-vians.

Literal sparks ignite, and it’s a race against time to find the cause and cure. Only Flygirl remains unaffected and she’ll have to cooperate...

Something is off about Jessica “Flygirl” Roark. With Dr. Cindy Liu safely in custody, unable to hurt anyone with her experiments, a new husband at home, and a team of friends working to save the citizens of Springfield, it should be smooth sailing through a cloudless sky. But Jessica is being secretive, avoiding spending time with her family and...

Hidden in the space between chapters lurk other stories—what came before and after, and meanwhile—and the other sides of the stories, including the part our heroines didn’t know. This collection peeks around those corners of the Menopausal Superhero series.

Through Thick and Thin will get you up close and personal with your favorites. Fuerte...

When Last We Left Our Heroes…

Being a Menopausal Superhero doesn’t stop when the novels stop, and this collection of novellas and short stories takes you behind and between the books to dive deeper into the world of Patricia the Lizard Woman, Fuerte, Flygirl, and even Dr. Cindy Liu!

These aren’t your father’s superheroes. Whether you’re already a...

"The Other Jack" has an urban legend feel and is about a case of mistaken identity.

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On the European front, there are worse things stalking the battlefield than enemy soldiers.

A laid-off ad exec’s second career takes a turn for the bloody.

The halls of Shy Rock High welcome the Class of 2005—but why so few attendees to this shadowy...

"The Cleaning Lady" might not sound like horror, but it's all in what you have to clean up.

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As a deadly scourge overwhelms the continent, four survivors race to find a last exit out of Australia.

Up in the attic, a bedtime story outlives its storyteller.

A city boy visits his country cousins and stumbles on a terrifying...

"The Girl in the Pool" is a daylight ghost story.

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Spooky ghost stories! Eight paranormal tales sure to keep you sleepless...

We fear discovery when we should fear what there is to discover.

Lovecraft and his successors show a world where human civilisation is only a thin veneer over black seas of ignorance. A world where men exalted for their reason uncover logic-defying truths. A world where the marginalised discover uncaring horror on the fringes of a society that...

In a world of shadows, joyful colours are an act of heroism.

Modern tales are filled with clowns who invoke fear not laughter: painted grins covering fanged maws; baggy costumes concealing unspeakable horrors; malevolent parodies of nature.

But the tools of a clown work for good as well as ill: only a trickster could tweak a monster’s nose;...

“It would be our duty, as citizens on this earth
to document its end the best way we know
and if that means a second by second update
of the world going up in flames, or down in rain, or crushed under the feet of invading monsters
so be it.”
-- Shivangi Narain

No one understands an apocalypse like the people who have experienced it. Mad...

15 intriguing Urban Fantasy tales.

Written by wizards... intended for muggles.


This collection of fresh voices features paranormal investigators and jazz-loving demons, dragons and the supernatural, gods in Chicago and killer clowns.

Each author in this collection has a wealth of additional stories, meaning this is just the beginning. Pick it up...

"I Should Have Known" might all be in the narrator's head, or maybe her girlfriend really is becoming something else.

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2020.
In a year where nobody can go anywhere, nine authors take you to near futures, far-off worlds, the heights of passion and the depths of terror. But whether you’re stuck in a time loop, caught in a...

"No Country for Young Women" imagines what Texas might become if it continues on its current path.

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This book is about CHOICE.

Choice is the Soul of Liberty.
Choice is the Heart of our Democracy.
Choice is the bane of autocrats, of theocrats.

Forty-nine years ago, the Supreme Court recognized Choice as a fundamental...

A frantic groom. A promotion at stake. A prehistoric awakening.
Time—the one thing we want to control but can’t. Instead, we are ruled by time, constantly aware of the ticking of the clock on the wall and on our lives. Open the pages of this book and discover just how true it is.
Is love possible 30 years later? Will a daring rescue stand in the...

A dark studio. A questionable relationship. A mysterious room in the basement. A lab full of dangerous plants. A long-kept secret. A shadowy shack in the woods.
Life gets sticky, even dangerous sometimes. We long to escape, but sometimes we find ourselves trapped, relying on instinct to survive. If we’re lucky, we’ll have a friend in our corner....

Welcome to Gehenna & Hinnom. Where things go bump in the night and dimensions fold within one another. Beasts lurk in shadows and nightmares take physical form. In this tome, you will find the most exciting weird fiction and cosmic horror from the best up-and-coming authors in the genres.

In this collection of ten stories, The New Accelerator’s first Anthology, we have gathered some of the hardest hitting and cerebrally stimulating Sci-Fi this side of the Horsehead Nebula.

Named after the classic short story by H.G.Wells, The New Accelerator (or ‘TNA’) is a homeworld for superb Science Fiction short stories. Dedicated to...

"O Scaly Night" features Patricia O'Neill, the Lizard Woman of Springfield intervening to make sure a father can protect his child.

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Thirty-six stories to give you your holiday fix. Thirty-six times to get a Christmas chill or a warm, fuzzy feeling. This group of authors have come together for the 9th year in a row to...

For over forty years, Stephen King has been one of the biggest names in literature and popular culture.

In 2013, author and Constant Reader Chad A. Clark embarked on a journey, not of miles but of pages and words, reading all of Stephen King’s works. Every book and short story, in the order they were released.

What lies between these covers are...

From writing to publishing to marketing, the Insecure Writer’s Support Group members provide tips on making money as a writer. This guide represents the spirit of the IWSG - to encourage and support writers everywhere! It is our hope that this book will benefit you as a writer, no matter where you are in the journey.

Tapping into the expertise of over a hundred talented authors from around the globe, The IWSG Guide to Publishing and Beyond contains something for every writer. Whether you are starting out and need tips on the craft of writing, looking for encouragement as an already established author, taking the plunge into self-publishing, or seeking...

The world was never a safe place

Too many disturbing entities lurk in our plane of existence. Some haunt you physically, whereas some manifest only in your mind. What kind of horror bothers you the most? Check out The Great Void Books’ Beyond, an anthology packed with some of the most delicious horrors from awesome writers all over the world....