Alternative Nightmares

<p>Plague Doctor Children Moral Mycelium and an Apocalyptic Tardigrade are a few of the strange creatures in Part One's short story collection.</p><p>Part Two's three novellas pay homage to the empathetic heroic and gothic: </p><p>In Empiphany Jessica and Blair's community live in blissful happiness thanks to emotional transfers via touch but they soon discover they're living in a utopian nightmare.</p><p>Athena's Crucible is the goddess's last chance to save the fallen ancient Greek pantheon.</p><p>And in The Diary of V. Frankenstein simple changes spark big consequences in an alternative-reality telling of the gothic classic.</p>