The eighteenth Tarot card is the Moon, and those who raise their arms to her know she offers Mercy and Severity in equal measure. This is the great river at night, where wolves howl and all doors are open. All futures are possible, and every truth is elusive. This is the source and passion of Eighteen: Stories of Mischief & Mayhem. These twenty-four stories from voices-old and new-celebrate the inevitability of fate, the horror of prophecy, and the shivering delight of not knowing what comes next. Cross over the threshold with us, and explore the strange, the weird, and the fantastic. Do not fear what lies ahead. It is the same as what came before. The only difference is you. This is Eighteen, and nothing will be the same. Eighteen contains stories from Forrest Aguirre, Darin Bradley, Christopher East, Scott Edelman, Nicole Feldringer, Ben Gamblin, Ingrid Garcia, A. P. Howell, Emma Johnson-Rivard, E. E. King, Jessie Kwak, Shannon Lawrence, Gerri Leen, Mark Mills, Christi Nogle, Tammie Painter, Josh Rountree, Erica Sage, Lorraine Schein, J. Dee Stanley, Richard Thomas, John Waterfall, Wendy N. Wagner, and Todd Zack. It is edited by Mark Teppo

Eighteen: Stories of Mischief & Mayhem - Underland Tarot, #2

Unemployment has ravaged the U. S. economy. People struggle everywhere, exhausted by the collapse that destroyed their lives. Benjamin Cade is an expert in cognition, and before the flatlined economy caught up to him, he earned his living as a university instructor. Now, without income, he joins the millions defaulting on their loans in his case, the money he borrowed to finance his degrees. But there are consequences. Using advances in cognitive science and chemical therapy, Ben's debtors can reclaim their property his education. The government calls the process Repossession Therapy. The data Ben's repossession will yield is invaluable to those improving the indexing technology, a remarkable medical advance that has enabled the effective cure of all mental disorders. By disassembling his mind, doctors will gain the expertise to assist untold millions. But Ben has no intention of losing his mind without a fight, so he begins teaching in the park, distributing his knowledge before it's gone in a race against ignorance. And somewhere in Ben's confusing takedown, Chimpanzee arrives. Its iconography appears spray-painted around town. Young people in rubber chimpanzee masks start massive protests. As Ben slowly loses himself, the Chimpanzee movement seems to grow. And all fingers point to Ben.

Chimpanzee

Over the last decade, Darin Bradley has been dissecting the future-from the prophetic Book that heralded the arrival of Salvage Country in Noise to the impending repossession of our education in Chimpanzee to the harrowing world of voyeuristic terrorism in Noise. Now, with Light Both Foreign and Domestic, he presents a collection of stories that reveal the persistent light of the human spirit, no matter the harrowing darkness that presses down on us.- "Light Both Foreign and Domestic"- "Hotels and Other Forms of Collapse"- "Two"- "The Basement, Borges"- "Slipstring"- "'Seng, Running"- "Fairyland"- "They Would Only be Roads"- "The Dust and the Red"- "?"- "The Heresy Box"- "Sweet Water"- "Syntagm"- "Stormchasing"- "How Nothing Happens"- "Sleepwalker"Several stories are exclusive to this collection.

Light Both Foreign and Domestic

A feud between two rival families is about to create international warfare. Desperate to reclaim territory that was once part of their ancestral lands, the Astafo family plots against their distant cousin, Pedir Seda, and his mysterious favor with the prime minister. Pivotal to this conflict is a secret tucked away on Seda's lands-The Holy Sanguinary Academy for the Lame and the Orphaned. Hundreds of children and adolescents, many of whom are unwanted bastards sent to the orphanage by their noble fathers, earn their keep at the clandestine academy by cultivating delicate crops commissioned by the Eastreign Consortium for Inquisition Mechanics. The Consortium needs these crops for a new reagent that will tip the balance of power in their favor. The Salvation Church, under the guise of the orphanage, is helping create the reagent by commissioning the help of the powerful cartel known as The Shroud. These conspiracies bring an unlikely band of heroes together as the secrets of political corruption, profiteering, and warfare light the spark to turn a family feud into the greatest war ever seen. Part western, part Victoriana, Bloodmetal spans dusty frontiers and marble ballrooms, slinging swords, corsets, and gun barrels in a new, modern fantasy. "Apparently, Gene Wolfe and Steven Erikson had a lovechild and it grew up sexy af."-Jonathan Wood, author of Broken Hero "A Wild West cyberpunk dystopian science fantasy novel as if written by Raymon Chandler and oozing style and substance. You wish you were as cool as Bloodmetal."­-Paul Jessup, author of Glass House "If weird western fantasy fiction mashups are your thing .

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