Reset

A secret multi-government conspiracy to cull the population of the world. An ancient deity forced to do their bidding and manipulate a virus, but He has other plans. Unbeknownst to all involved, The Reset is put into motion.Meg, a cantankerous witch that has a strong dislike for most of humanity, has been haunted for the last few weeks by a ghost that keeps repeating the same ominous message. "Prepare... The Reset is coming..."All is eerily quiet in Portland, but the witch is stunned to discover that people all around her are killing themselves. What's worse; each person dies with a blissful smile. As events unfold before her unbelieving eyes, clusters of the population have went feral, killing indiscriminately and doing many unspeakable acts of cruelty to their victims. Meg is forced to flee her home and attempts to find safe refuge from the carnage, but is now caught in the middle of a war. A war between good and evil as the veil of this world crumbles away and rifts into other dimensions appear, spilling forth many creatures that seek to take over the world and create chaos and destruction.Will Meg survive or will she become another casualty of the apocalyptic event known as The Reset...?

If you can see and hear otherworldly entities, as well as hear the thoughts of others, what would you do...?Eve Driskell is a trouble young woman. Her life, since she turned fifteen, has consisted of short stays at various mental wards because she's been deemed a threat to herself and others. Constantly harried day and night by a demon, Eve decides to end her life by driving her car into the Columbia River, but fails. She ends up being committed to the Oregon State Hospital. Her stay is short lived as the apocalyptic event known as the Reset creates death and chaos all around her as her psychic abilities grow painfully out of control. Can Eve Driskell escape from the crazed Ferals or will she die at hands of her demonic tormentor?

A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 "Literature at the highest level: heartrending, disquieting, fascinating."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Drawing together the best of his short fiction published over the last four decades, Burn Man: Selected Stories showcases Mark Anthony Jarman's sharply observed characters and acrobatic, voice-driven prose in stories that walk the tightrope between the commonplace and the mystical. With an insightful introduction from John Metcalf, this revelatory selection highlights one of the most spirited and singular masters of the short story form.

Gathering the best twenty stories from Cynthia Flood's career, these spare, stylistically inventive stories explore subjects ranging from the domestic to the political. In this collection, Flood navigates a wide range of subject matter with a writing style which gradually becomes more intense, tighter, and sometimes experimental with each story. Most themes are familiar-love, hate, children, the natural world, parents, failure, despair, anger, regret. Other stories are more unusual, dealing with topics such as far-left political activity. Containing what may be some of Flood's most poignant work, You Are Here is a sharp and engaging exploration of the world today.

"Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." -Quill & Quire "If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries," writes Margaret Atwood, "read the stories of Clark Blaise." This Time, That Place draws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaise's career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, through and between languages-from Florida's Confederate swamps, to working-class Pittsburgh, to Montreal and abroad-they demonstrate Blaise's profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as fallacy, fable, and dream. This Time, That Place: Selected Stories confirms Clark Blaise as one of the best and most enduring masters of the form-on either side of our shared borders.