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Lure

Revenge of the Old Gods Author: Tim McGregor In the chapel of a lonesome fishing village, the bones of a monster hang over the beleaguered worshipers. In this place, the chapel is not popular, and the tithes that keep the priest and his children alive rarely come in. The villagers themselves are hardly doing better, eking out an existence at the behest of the tremulous waves. They think their luck has changed, however, when a luremaid (mermaid) appears offshore one day, and the men of the town decide to hunt, capture, and imprison the creature. And their luck does change . [...]

2025-10-18T11:24:45-07:00October 18th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"My heart is open enough to hold it all.” Author: Molly Roden Winter Molly’s late-night disagreement with her husband opens a door to a new kind of marriage. In More: A Memoir of Open Marriage Molly ostensibly tells the story of encountering freedom in her marriage, but the actual truth of this supposedly ethically non-monogamous relationship seeps from between the chaotic lines of love sought and lost over the Internet and in shady meetups. What we really get is a story of less: a story of gaslighting and a woman trapped in a bad marriage that she desperately wants to both [...]

2025-10-17T13:01:08-07:00October 17th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Beautiful Ugly

“Fear can make something beautiful appear ugly.” Author: Alice Feeney Author Grady Green is a ruined man. He can’t write anymore. He can’t think of anything anymore except his disappeared, presumed dead wife, and the night that everything happened. He was on the phone with her, elated to tell her his good news, when she slammed on the breaks, got out of the car, and then exited his life forever. Her coat was found in the waves below the cliff she was driving up. Now, at the behest of his agent, Grady is going to a reclusive cabin on a Scottish [...]

2025-10-16T10:53:02-07:00October 16th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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