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In 1942, Rupert Rocket's grandmother was cursed by an Irish fairy, the Pooka, to end her bloodline.But the Pooka's sister, the Grogoch, blessed the boy to counteract the curse.As a young gay man, Rupert's life spins wildly between the competing spells through adventures as a dancer, a model, an actor, and a spy...But what will happen when the blessing runs out?Mark Salzwedel is a gay writer and editor living in New York City. His short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, and his previous novel is The Lever (Queer Space Books, 2022).PRAISE FOR THE LEVER BY MARK SALZWEDEL"There is as much wonder here as there is fear, and that careful mixture made this book a special read for me." - Ulysses Grant Dietz, queerscifi.com"Unique space thriller, with good character development, surprise twists and turns, and a fascinating (terrifying?) antagonist at its heart!" - Damian Serbu, author of The Vampire's Angel"Loaded with space-age detail and plenty of interpersonal melodrama, Salzwedel elevates his hefty 400-page novel to new heights with creative intergalactic accents and characters that pop and sizzle with righteous momentum to restore the greater good." - Jim Piechota, Bay Area Reporter

In the future, a reporter uncovers a plot to change the DNA of selected young adults, abduct them, and cover up evidence that they ever existed. Her investigation takes her and three gay soldiers to Mars and eventually to the other side of the galaxy, where any misstep they make could doom the human race.Mark Salzwedel's science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in multiple publications, including one forthcoming anthology. He lives in New York City and writes stories and composes music when not working as an advertising copywriter.

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"In Vulture, the ruinous city that remains after the disastrous Water Wars, anarchy rules. Graffiti gangs have become the bleak norm, each tribe denoted by unique colors and values. Separated as toddlers, siblings Finch and Rigby have grown up unwittingly pitted against one another within the lethally competitive world of Vulture. Rigby comes of age among the Regals, Vulture's cruelest gang, headed by the vicious warlord Richard while Finch has successfully remained independent of the gangs. However, circumstances bring him closer to Vulture's horrors than ever before. Can they make it to freedom together?"--

We are tuath.We are the hidden people.In Eire, our lives and deeds are behind every story of the fair folk, the sidhe, or faerie. Behind all the old tales, warped and bent by history, is one of us.But what happens when a myth-made-flesh no longer merits legends? What happens when he falls from grace?

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Reading taste-tuned novellas authored by algorithms.Auto-logging encounters with beauty with a smartglasses app.Installing a thermostat to maintain a constant psychological warmth at work.Engineering a crush with a hormone-delivery system to preempt problematic attractions.Donating a childhood friendship to someone who didn't have any through a memory transplant.In Literary Devices for Coping, the technological and fantastical idiosyncratically shape key moments in close relationships. As characters in this collection grapple with issues of memory, jealousy and sanity, their efforts are assisted and complicated by gadgetry and artifice-often in ways that raise questions about what it means to be human.

In Dreams We Sleep is the story of Niente's descent into the pits of despair. He is a drug user, using to escape the demons of his mentally ill existence. The world around him is blurring, the distinction between reality and dreams disappearing.A woman tells him he has to change the world, her age keeps changing each time he meets her in both the real world and that of his hallucinations. He doesn't know if she is real or just a figment of his fractured brain. As Niente follows her instructions, his world crumbles to its final days.Niente has been chosen by fate to make the biggest decision known to humanity: the choice of life or death.As he struggles to come to terms with the insanity of reality, he pulls his closest friends down with him into the depths of madness.No one is safe; no one will live. Answers can be dismissed, conclusions argued. However finality is just that. Final.

Agent Miranda Burton is trying to stop a possessed woman on a killing spree. Stacey Durand is looking to avenge her mentor who was killed. Are they looking for the same person? If they work together, can they stop her in time?