Your mind is a portal. These words are the key.

Midwinter Magic and Mayhem
An anthology of stories from a selection of fantasy authors, edited by Frances Evelyn.
Includes Overcast by Anna Tizard:
When Penny interviews a good-looking designer for her magazine, she gets the shivers and her lips turn blue. Penny visits her estranged, witchy aunt for answers – and she finds them, through a portal into a magical garden where it’s always winter.
"He only shook my hand. When I think back over it, that was the only part of him that touched me. But really, it was when those dark eyes lingered on mine that the cold began to creep outwards, from somewhere deep inside my chest, the way ice spreads its spiderweb patterns in the surface of a freezing lake."
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Barely Composed
This feature length short story is free but EXCLUSIVE to subscribers.
An uptight classical composer has plenty of her own inner demons to wrestle with.
But she's about to meet another one: the demon of death metal!
Barely Composed is completely exclusive to subscribers.
It's unavailable anywhere else!
Subscribe today and get this short story for free, along with volume 1 in The Book of Exquisite Corpse: The Empty Danger!

Mirrormaze: A Dreampunk Anthology
Edited by Cliff Jones Jr. (Fractured Mirror Publishing)
"This is our new reality. We live inside our heads, our dreams. Come navigate a labyrinth of visions, illusions, nightmares, and fantasies. Explore the nascent genre of dreampunk with 22 of its finest authors as they examine and transform the dreamscapes that we call our lives. Get lost among the twists and turns,ascending to the upper limits of both wonder and dread."
Do you dare enter the Mirrormaze?
Features exclusive, hypnotic story, Kiss of Fire, by Anna Tizard.
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FOR PAGE AND SCREEN: Issue 1:
New Beginnings "From heartfelt reunions to impossible situations, from enchanted bathrooms to sentient cabbages, and everything in between, these stories prove that the power of fiction is limitless." Features The Gravity of Dreams by Anna Tizard, a wistful tale of a ghost, a pirate ship and a sentient cabbage. (Inspired by an Exquisite Corpse.) |
![]() Free! - Electrical Spectre <200 words Short, peculiar; slightly creepy. Not suitable for technophobes. (Click on the lightning strike to find out why.) |
![]() Free! - The Religion of Biscuits <500 words Brief, bonkers; existential (for the biscuit). "One of those writers whose work makes me itch to write as well... effortlessly profound, yet with a tongue in cheek kind of edge." - Tonya Moore, author (Florida). (Click on the biscuits to experience their pain.) |

EXCUSE ME MAG No. 3: PERFORMANCE / ANXIETY!
Weird lit and art zine (Stories! Art! Angst!) featuring The Port of Ideas (Street Lamp's Warning) by Anna Tizard.
The story is set in Brighton, UK. Something stirs under the pavement... The street lamp has something to tell.
Weird lit and art zine (Stories! Art! Angst!) featuring The Port of Ideas (Street Lamp's Warning) by Anna Tizard.
The story is set in Brighton, UK. Something stirs under the pavement... The street lamp has something to tell.
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