Campfire at the Crossroads

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The fire burns. The veil thins. Come and stay a while in the in-between.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stories flicker like embers in the dark - brief and searing - at the crossroads of reality and the unknown. This anthology of dark fantasy and sci-fi fiction holds unknown myths unsettling dreams and uncanny wonders for those who dare to take them in down here at the edge of all things.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Some of the tales include:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wrestling through a brutal storm on a frozen mountainside a lone climber feels someone watching her from the whiteout. She knows there's no one out there. She also knows she's wrong.</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In the neon-choked slums of a corp-state three hackers choose three different paths - but any way at all will cost them. In a world like this survival is an algorithm of its own.</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The concert of a young woman's life turns into a waking nightmare when the music is cut short by what sounds like a gunshot. It could be a killer. What it is and what it means... is much worse.</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A hunter tracks a missing person to an old stone bridge expecting to find a werewolf. But what's hiding away there isn't a werewolf - and it isn't done hunting.</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To save the world (she tells herself) one young woman built YMIR: a path into the collective unconscious. To finish her work (they tell her) she must destroy the only person who ever truly understood her - and hang him in the stars.</span></li></ul><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Gather round and lean in close. The fire won't last forever.</strong></p><p></p>